LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Nine older horses led by Santin and Smooth Like Strait have been entered in the Grade 1 Arlington Million, which will be run Saturday for the first time at Churchill Downs.
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DEL MAR, Calif. – Jockeys Abel Cedillo and Declan Cannon both have been suspended by Del Mar’s stewards for three days, beginning Thursday, for separate incidents in the Grade 2 Eddie Read Stakes July 31.
Cedillo rode the race winner, Master Piece, who had to survive a lengthy inquiry initiated by an objection lodged by trainer Phil D’Amato, who sent out four runners, including the second- and third-place finishers, Hong Kong Harry and Cathkin Peak.
Damon’s Mound is all set for Saturday’s Saratoga Special, having come out of his final workout for the race in good order.
Saturday at trainer Michelle Lovell’s Colonial Downs base, Damon’s Mound worked five furlongs in 1:02, with race rider Gabriel Saez coming in to breeze the colt.
“Just a maintenance work,” said Michelle Lovell, who trains Damon’s Mound for Michele and Cliff Love. “Just an easy, in-hand work by himself.”
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y – After running third in both the Grade 2 Wood Memorial and Grade 1 Belmont Stakes earlier this season, Skippylongstocking got his first graded stakes win when registering a 1 1/2-length victory over the favored We the People in Saturday’s Grade 3 West Virginia Derby at Mountaineer Park. That performance has his connections contemplating a start here in the Grade 1 Travers at Saratoga later this month.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Naughty Gal gave trainer D. Wayne Lukas his seventh victory in the Grade 3 Adirondack Stakes on Sunday at Saratoga. He will try to win his seventh Grade 1 Spinaway at the end of the meet with a different horse.
Summer Promise, who finished second in the Grade 3 Schuylerville here on the July 14 opening-day card, worked a half-mile in 48.10 seconds Monday morning over the Oklahoma training track. Getting a good run up to the pole, Summer Promise went her first quarter in 23.67 and her second quarter in 24.53.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Nations Pride and With The Moonlight, the two Godolphin-owned, Charlie Appleby-trained runners who swept last weekend’s turf stakes for 3-year-olds, are sticking around a little longer.
While Nations Pride, winner of the Grade 1, $1 million Saratoga Derby on Saturday, has his objective as the Grade 3, $1 million Jockey Club Derby on Sept. 17 at Aqueduct, With The Moonlight could run right back in the Grade 2, $200,000 Lake Placid here on Aug. 20.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Monday marked only nine days since Epicenter won the Grade 2 Jim Dandy, but the 3-year-old colt seems eager to get to his next engagement, the Grade 1, $1.25 million Travers Stakes on Aug. 27.
Sensing how sharp Epicenter has been the last week, trainer Steve Asmussen on Monday gave him a five-furlong workout that the 3-year-old did by himself in 1:01.70. He got his final quarter in 24.81 seconds and galloped out six furlongs in 1:15.41.
It was a bit atypical for an Asmussen runner to do that much so close to his last race.
DEL MAR, Calif. – One of the most important 3-year-olds at Del Mar this summer weighs approximately 1.5 pounds and has feathers.
A Harris’s hawk and his handler, Conor Bucalo, have been positioned on the rooftop since late July as part of the three-man team operating the drone that records the races. Images from the drone provide an overhead view shown to the public during replays and are used by stewards to review inquiries.
DEL MAR, Calif. – The days of chasing leading rider trophies are long gone for Hall of Fame rider Victor Espinoza. The mementoes that accompany big-race wins provide a suitable substitute.
Espinoza, 50, has won seven stakes this year, surpassing the six stakes wins he had in 2021. He has expectations for greater success before the end of the Del Mar meeting on Sept. 11, and beyond.
“I want to keep it going and win a few more,” Espinoza said on the backstretch on Sunday morning between workers.
DEL MAR, Calif. - Carmelita’s Man has been the star California-bred in turf stakes in recent months, winning the Crystal Water Stakes at Santa Anita in May and Saturday’s California Dreamin’ Stakes at Del Mar.
Without a similar race in coming months, Carmelita’s Man is likely to appear in an allowance race on turf before the end of the Del Mar summer meeting on Sept. 11.