Quint’s Brew, runner-up in the Grade 2 Carter at Aqueduct on Saturday, returned to Delaware Park this week, where he will soon begin working toward his next start. Trainer Ned Allard said that he is considering several stakes races and will likely bring him back next month.
“We won’t be running him back in less than 30 days, that’s for sure,” Allard said. “We’ve got a number of options and we’re taking it one step at a time.”
Admire Daytona and Heart of Honor, the one-two finishers from last Saturday’s U.A.E. Derby at Meydan, head the list of five 3-year-olds who were made late nominees to the Triple Crown by their connections, it was announced Tuesday.
Also nominated by Monday’s second deadline, at a cost of $6,000, were Colloquial, winner of Monday’s Lafayette Stakes at Keeneland; Brereton’s Baytown, fifth in the Arkansas Derby; and Just a Fair Shake, recent winner of a first-level allowance race at Laurel.
Gate to Wire escaped injury when he flipped in the paddock while being saddled before the Lafayette Stakes on Monday at Keeneland.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Jockey Luis Saez escaped serious injury after being taken off the track in an ambulance early on Keeneland's Tuesday card.
Kiaran McLaughlin, Saez's agent, posted on social media Thursday evening that Saez "will be sore tomorrow, but nothing [is] broken."
"Luis wants to ride tomorrow. We will see how he is feeling in the morning," McLaughlin continued.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Trainer Mark Casse was looking around for wood to knock on in the Keeneland winner’s circle after La Cara won the Grade 1 Ashland Stakes Monday to move on to the Kentucky Oaks. The win came a little more than a week after the Casse-trained Sandman won the Grade 1 Arkansas Derby to punch his ticket to the Kentucky Derby.
“The Arkansas Derby last week, the Ashland this week – pinch me,” Casse said. “I never take anything for granted. I love it, and this has been my life. It’s just great.”
Undefeated Eclipse Award champion Immersive, who was given time off due to bone bruising, recently returned to trainer Brad Cox's barn at Churchill Downs.
Immersive last raced while winning the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies in November, capping an undefeated championship campaign in which she won three Grade 1 races. In early January, owner-breeder Godolphin announced that the filly had been sidelined.
Average daily handle on Santa Anita’s races rose 6 percent at the 49-day winter-spring meeting from Dec. 26 through Sunday compared to the corresponding season last year, according to figures compiled by Daily Racing Form.
The track ran 478 races during the meeting, compared to 417 at the 2023-2024 winter-spring meeting. There were three more days of racing this year than last year, largely because of less rain on racing days this year.
Book’em Danno, who made a successful 4-year-old debut winning an overnight handicap at Colonial Downs on March 14, is being pointed toward the Grade 1, $1 million Churchill Downs, a seven-furlong race on the Kentucky Derby undercard.
“The timing is good after his race which, even though it was only a three-horse field, he ran a big number and I didn’t want to run him back quick,” trainer Derek Ryan said Monday. “This is [seven] weeks, he’s run well fresh, the distance is good, and the prize money isn’t bad.”
LEXINGTON, Ky. – When Hit Show turned for home with a decent position this past Saturday in the Dubai World Cup, his trainer, Brad Cox, was watching from Kentucky. Good, Cox thought, the horse will grind his way to a rich placing.
Hit Show, previously only a Grade 2 winner, did more than that, hitting a gear Cox didn’t know he had to run down Mixto and win the $12 million World Cup.
“He’s never run like that before,” Cox said Sunday at Keeneland.
