HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – A 19-month layoff and a little change in scenery to a more quiet setting for her everyday training routine has turned Eres Tu into a win machine for trainer Arnaud Delacour. Delacour hopes Eres Tu can continue her winning ways when he brings her to Gulfstream Park for the first time for Saturday’s Grade 3 Royal Delta.
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HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Jockey David Cohen will be wearing a new set of silks aboard Keepmeinmind in the upcoming Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn.
Spendthrift Farm announced Feb. 7 it had purchased a 50 percent ownership interest in Keepmeinmind. Cody Autrey, who brokered the deal through his bloodstock agency based in Hot Springs, Ark., recently said Keepmeinmind will race in Spendthrift’s silks in the Southwest.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Jockey David Cohen has taken an active part in the development of Keepmeinmind since the leading Kentucky Derby prospect was 2 and he sees real progression in the colt as he approaches his 3-year-old debut Sunday in the Grade 3, $750,000 Southwest at Oaklawn Park.
The Kentucky Derby points race has had its date moved a second time after a winter storm system forced its cancellation Monday. It was rescheduled for Saturday, but over the weekend a worsening forecast led officials to push the race to Sunday.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The New York Racing Association will offer horsemen based at the Fair Hill Training Center in Maryland and Oaklawn Park in Arkansas a financial incentive to ship horses to run at the Aqueduct and Belmont Park spring meets.
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OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The John Kimmel-trained duo of Secret Love and Frost Me head a field of nine New York-bred 3-year-old fillies entered Monday for Saturday’s $100,000 Maddie May Stakes at Aqueduct.
Secret Love is coming off a 1 1/2-length victory in the Franklin Square Stakes going 6 1/2 furlongs on Jan. 16. She will be stretching out to a mile for the first time in the Maddie May.
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OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Nicky the Vest, the 11 3/4-length winner of Sunday’s $100,000 Gander Stakes for New York-bred 3-year-olds, will most likely get a stakes start against open company in his next start.
Whether that start is in the Grade 3, $300,000 Gotham on March 6 or the Grade 2, $750,000 Wood Memorial on April 3 remains to be seen.
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OZONE PARK, N.Y. – It’s been a while since trainer Bob Baffert traveled the New York route to the Triple Crown, but he is giving serious consideration to doing it this year.
Baffert plans to nominate a trio of 3-year-olds to the Grade 3, $300,000 Gotham and is pointing Freedom Fighter to the one-turn mile race on March 6.
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ARCADIA, Calif. – The lessons being taught to Life Is Good, and a subtle but apparently effective equipment change, resulted in a far more settled performance in a workout Monday morning at Santa Anita, when the undefeated 3-year-old colt effortlessly worked five furlongs in 1:00.80.
Life Is Good went along so easily that clockers designated the work as breezing, which is given out rarely in California, as most works are labeled handily. Of the 137 works on Monday on both the main and training tracks, his was the only one so denoted.
ARCADIA, Calif. -- Friday morning, at the beginning of the race week at Santa Anita, jockey Flavien Prat was tied for fourth in the standings with 19 wins, seven fewer than leader Juan Hernandez.
By Monday evening, Prat led the standings with 30 wins, one more than Hernandez.
Prat could be well clear in the standings very soon.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Rudy Brisset said Monday he is leaning toward running Tarantino in the Feb. 27 Fountain of Youth at Gulfstream after the Pioneerof the Nile colt breezed a half-mile Sunday in 49.40 seconds at Palm Meadows in his first work since finishing second at 26-1 in the Jan. 30 Holy Bull.
“Right now I am 60-40 toward running at Gulfstream,” said Brisset. “He will work one more time and I will school him in the paddock. If I think we need another week, we will wait for Tampa” for the March 6 Tampa Bay Derby.
