The 87 Beyer Speed Figure Australasia earned winning the Premier Starlet for Louisiana-breds on Feb. 10 at Delta Downs is the third-highest Beyer so far in 2021 for a 3-year-old filly. But Australasia’s connections have no plans to get ambitious. Now 3 for 3 in her career, with the Starlet win following romps in a Fair Grounds maiden race and another Louisiana-bred stakes at Delta, Australasia likely will run next in the Crescent City Oaks for Louisiana-bred 3-year-old fillies on March 20 at Fair Grounds.
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Surface switches might have changed the trajectory of 2021 campaigns for two Saturday stakes winners at Fair Grounds.
Captivating Moon, who had been racing on dirt, notched a surprise win in the Fair Grounds Stakes on turf, while Just Might, who came in with high-level turf form, scored a standout dirt victory after the Colonel Power Stakes was rained off grass.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The highlight of the coming weekend at Gulfstream is Saturday’s 30th running of the Grade 3, $100,000 Royal Delta, a 1 1/16-mile main-track race for which at least seven fillies and mares were expected.
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HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Shug McGaughey has confirmed Greatest Honour for the Grade 2 Fountain of Youth, a Feb. 27 race for which the bay Tapit colt surely will be a solid favorite.
After Greatest Honour posted a breakthrough victory in the Jan. 30 Holy Bull at Gulfstream Park, McGaughey had said he would monitor the colt’s training to determine whether to run back in the Fountain of Youth or wait instead for the March 27 Florida Derby, the final race in the annual Gulfstream series of Kentucky Derby preps for 3-year-olds.
Senor Buscador, the promising 3-year-old based at Sam Houston Race Park, could see Kentucky Derby prep action at Oaklawn or Santa Anita.
Trainer Todd Fincher said Monday that the Grade 2, $1 million Rebel on March 13 at Oaklawn and the Grade 1, $750,000 Santa Anita Derby on April 3 are options being discussed with owner Joe Peacock Jr.
Sam Houston Race Park has seen a spike in handle during its current meet and plans to institute a substantial overnight purse increase this week, the Houston track announced Sunday.
Sam Houston will add $7,000 to the purse of each overnight race written for the main track. The move boosts maiden special weight purses to $43,000, entry-level allowances to $44,000, and $5,000 claiming races to $19,500. The track will add $2,000 to the purse of each overnight race written for turf.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Keeneland Racecourse in Lexington will allow a “limited number” of general-admission tickets to be sold for its upcoming spring meet, the track announced on Wednesday.
The ticket packages will allow spectators without racing connections to attend the races at the immensely popular track for the first time since the fall meet of 2019. Last year, Keeneland canceled its spring meet outright due to the emerging COVID-19 threat. For an abbreviated summer meet and for its fall meet, it only allowed horse owners, sponsors, box holders, and racing-club members to attend.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Keepmeinmind’s status for the postponed Southwest Stakes next week at Oaklawn Park will be determined by the status of training here.
Horses were last able to train over the Oaklawn surface on Feb. 11. A winter storm has since moved into the region, forcing the cancellation of five days of training through Tuesday and eight days of racing through Feb. 21.
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HOT SPRINGS, Ark. -- Oaklawn Park has canceled racing from Thursday through Sunday due to the winter storm system that has engulfed Arkansas, according to a text notice issued by the track late Monday.
It’s the second round of weather-related cancellations for Oaklawn, which last raced Feb. 11. The track had called off Presidents Day weekend ahead of the forecasted storm.
