ELMONT, N.Y. – Trainer Steve Asmussen’s first Grade 1 stakes victory came in the 1999 Mother Goose Stakes with Dreams Gallore. The Hall of Fame trainer has since won the race three more times with the likes of Rachel Alexandra (2009), Untapable (2014), and Midnight Bisou (2018).
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ELMONT, N.Y. – Country Grammer, who won the Grade 1 Hollywood Gold Cup for trainer Bob Baffert last month at Santa Anita, has been transferred by WinStar Farm to trainer Todd Pletcher and the horse is under consideration for a start in the Grade 2, $400,000 Suburban Stakes on July 3 at Belmont Park.
Should Country Grammer not run in the Suburban, there is the Grade 1, $1 million Whitney on Aug. 7 at Saratoga. WinStar won last year’s Whitney with the Baffert-trained Improbable, who went on to be voted the Eclipse Award for top older male.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Nominations were released Sunday for the $200,000 Smile Sprint Invitational, which headlines the Summit of Speed program July 3 at Gulfstream Park along with the Grade 2, $350,000 Princess Rooney Invitational.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Caribbean Caper looks like the horse to beat in the $104,000 allowance feature on the last twilight program of the spring meet Thursday, but recalculations may be in order. Trainer Al Stall Jr. said Caribbean Caper “most likely” will be scratched as the only 3-year-old in the race-7 lineup in order to stick with fellow 3-year-olds at a later date. With that known, Reagan’s Edge and Skinny Dip become the fillies to beat in a second-level allowance to be run at six furlongs.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Tyler Gaffalione, well on his way to another riding title at Churchill, will serve a three-day suspension after the spring meet ends Saturday, although it’s something that will scarcely impact his intended schedule.
Gaffalione is suspended for the first three days of the Ellis Park meet (June 27, July 1, July 2), with the penalty effectively preventing him from riding those same dates at Belmont Park. When Churchill ends, Gaffalione moves to New York, primarily for the Saratoga meet that starts July 15, and until Kentucky Downs starts Sept. 5.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Brook Smith had been hiding in plain sight, but no more. As the man behind an ownership entity known as RSLP Racing LLC, Smith dropped the collective jaw of the racing world Saturday when RSLP claimed three horses for $100,000 apiece out of the fourth race at Churchill Downs.
The move was so extraordinary that experienced horsemen and social-media wags said they had never seen anything like it. From a field of 10 2-year-olds going five furlongs, RSLP claimed the winner, Just Call Ray, along with Versatile (sixth) and Braggadoccio (10th).
ARCADIA, Calif. – This Tea, second in two Grade 2 stakes for fillies and mares in recent months at Santa Anita, has been retired after being diagnosed with an ankle injury, trainer George Papaprodromou said Sunday.
This Tea, a 4-year-old filly by Curlin, had one win in 13 starts and earned $165,320. She finished second by 9 1/4 lengths to As Time Goes By in the Grade 2 Santa Margarita Stakes on April 24, and second by a nose at 23-1 to that rival in the Grade 2 Santa Maria Stakes on May 22.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Rock Your World, winner of the Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby in April but well beaten in the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes, will race on turf this summer.
Trainer John Sadler said Sunday that Rock Your World will be pointed to the Grade 2 Del Mar Derby at 1 1/8 miles on turf on Sept. 4. Rock Your World might prep at Del Mar in the Grade 3 La Jolla Stakes at 1 1/16 miles on turf on Aug. 8, Sadler said.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Less than three weeks after a win in the Grade 1 Shoemaker Mile at Santa Anita, Smooth Like Strait worked a half-mile in 49.60 seconds on Friday for an expected start in the Grade 2 Eddie Read Stakes on July 24 at Del Mar. The $250,000 Eddie Read Stakes is run at 1 1/8 miles on turf.
“I’m very pleased with what I saw,” trainer Michael McCarthy said of the workout.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Gufo, the Grade 1 Belmont Derby winner who was third to Domestic Spending in the Grade 1 Manhattan earlier this month, will be equipped with blinkers for his next start, trainer Christophe Clement said Sunday.
Gufo is likely to run next in the $150,000 Grand Couturier on July 5 at Belmont, though the Grade 1, $500,000 United Nations on July 17 at Monmouth Park also is under consideration, Clement said. The Grade 1, $750,000 Sword Dancer on Aug. 28 at Saratoga is Gufo’s primary summer objective.