ARCADIA, Calif. - Get Her Number, the winner of the Grade 1 American Pharoah Stakes at Santa Anita on Sept. 26, will miss the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Keeneland on Nov. 6 because of a minor injury, trainer Peter Miller said Sunday.
“He’s got a little bit of bone bruising and we’ll back off on him,” Miller said. “He won’t run again until next year.”
ELMONT, N.Y. - Following his sensational season debut Saturday at Belmont, Performer will be pointed to the Grade 1, $250,000 Cigar Mile at Aqueduct on Dec. 5, trainer Shug McGaughey said Sunday.
Performer, his 4-year-old debut delayed by an ankle injury, won a one-mile allowance race by 1 3/4 lengths under mostly a hand ride from Joel Rosario.
ELMONT, N.Y. - Though a final decision will come closer to entry time, trainer Bill Mott said Sunday he is leaning toward running the 3-year-old filly Frank’s Rockette in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Sprint versus males as opposed to the $1 million Filly and Mare Sprint.
Both races are to be run Nov. 7 at Keeneland.
“Without looking at the horses, I’m leaning more towards the Sprint,” Mott said. “The distance would have a lot to do with it.”
Tell Cartel, the winner of two derbies in February and March, and Kiss Thru Fire, second in the All American Oaks at Ruidoso Downs last month, are the two leading qualifiers for the $1,052,350 Los Alamitos Super Derby on Nov. 8 after Saturday's time trials.
Tell Cartel, trained by Matt Fales for owner and breeder Mimi Wells, ran 400 yards in 19.59 seconds to win the second of six trials, setting the fastest qualifying time. Tell Cartel won the Los Alamitos Winter Derby in February and the El Primero Del Ano Derby in March, but lost his next three starts.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Fog enveloped much of Santa Anita for a good part of Sunday morning's training, but more than enough of the track could be seen around 6:30, when it was clear Maximum Security is training strongly for his upcoming start in the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Keeneland.
Maximum Security is most often, at best, an indifferent work horse, but he was a willing and eager worker Sunday, putting away his company with ease while completing a five-furlong drill in 59.80 seconds, after which he galloped-out an additional furlong.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Craig Lewis won the 1,000th race of his career with Warren’s Showtime in Saturday’s Grade 3 Autumn Miss Stakes at Santa Anita, a milestone decades in the making but reflective of more recent success.
The milestone win gave Lewis his first graded stakes victory in five years with the current stable leader whose sire and dam also had star turns in Lewis’s stable.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - King Guillermo, scratched from the Kentucky Derby just two days before the race, was back on the work tab for the first time since resuming training and breezed an easy half-mile in 51.78 Saturday at Gulfstream Park.
His next goal is the Grade 3 Discovery at Aqueduct on Nov. 28.
Turf Paradise in Phoenix will run after all in 2021.
Two months after the track’s owner told state regulators he had no plans to run next year, Turf Paradise and its horsemen on Friday announced a deal to run 84 live racing days during a meet starting Jan. 2 and running through May 1.
John Curran, Delaware Park’s track announcer for the past 37 years, will retire after the Breeders’ Cup this year and will call his final race at the track on Saturday, Delaware’s closing day.
Curran, who has also worked at Delaware as a racing official, stakes coordinator, simulcast coordinator, and publicity coordinator, was given the full-time announcing job at Delaware in 1984. Since then, he has called nearly every race at the track.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Art Collector had his first work since the Oct. 3 Preakness when going a half-mile in 49.20 seconds Thursday over a fast track at the Skylight training center, the home base of trainer Tommy Drury. Brian Hernandez Jr., the regular rider for Art Collector, was aboard.
“They say the track’s been pretty heavy, but he still got his last eighth in 11 and 2,” said Hernandez. “He’s as good as ever, from what I can tell.”
