ELMONT, N.Y. - Based on how well they ran in Saturday’s Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park, the 3-year-olds Happy Saver and Mystic Guide both have a bright future. Their connections need to decide if that future is next month or next year.
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ELMONT, N.Y. – Malathaat, a 2-year-old daughter of Grade 1 winners Curlin and Dreaming of Julia, made a smart-looking debut Friday at Belmont Park, winning a seven-furlong race by 1 1/4 lengths over highly regarded Caramel Swirl.
After pressing a modest opening quarter, Malathaat took a short lead in the middle of the far turn. Confronted and briefly passed by Caramel Swirl, Malathaat battled back along the inside and outfinished Caramel Swirl. Malathaat covered the seven furlongs in 1:23.37 and earned a 77 Beyer Speed Figure.
ELMONT, N.Y. – The last time New York-bred Binkster ran in an open first-level allowance race, he finished second to Yaupon, who not only beat him in that race but has gone on to win two more stakes and could go favored in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Tiz the Law continued his preparations for a start in the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic by working five furlongs early Saturday morning in 1:01.87 over Belmont Park’s main track.
Going out just before sunrise, Tiz the Law, working by himself, went in splits of 13.00 seconds, 25.49, 37.30, and got his last quarter in 24.57 under exercise rider Heather Smullen. Tiz the Law galloped out six furlongs in 1:15.58 and seven furlongs in 1:29.37.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Paul Pompa Jr., best known as the original owner of dual classic winner Big Brown but also known in New York racing circles as a generous and down-to-earth man, died Friday of an apparent heart attack. He was 62.
Pompa, who recently sold his Brooklyn-based trucking company, Truck-Rite Corp., started owning Thoroughbreds in 2000. In 2007, he purchased for $190,000 a 2-year-old son of Boundary who became Big Brown, a horse who in 2008 won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness before being eased in the Belmont Stakes.
ELMONT, N.Y. – There will be a nine-race card Monday, Columbus Day, at Belmont Park, but the two stakes scheduled for that program have been postponed.
With rain in the forecast, management has decided to run the Grade 2, $150,000 Hill Prince Stakes next Saturday and the Grade 2, $150,000 Knickerbocker Stakes next Sunday. Both races are scheduled for turf.
Belmont will be dark Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Eliade won a second-level allowance at Keeneland on Thursday for trainer Chad Brown and could make her next start in the Grade 3, $100,000 Long Island Handicap at Aqueduct on Nov. 28.
It was Eliade’s first win since coming to the U.S. and Brown’s stable after traveling from France last year.
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ELMONT, N.Y. – After originally planning to run Sistercharlie in Saturday’s Grade 1, $250,000 Flower Bowl at Belmont Park, trainer Chad Brown called an audible and has decided just to train the 6-year-old mare up to the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Keeneland on Nov. 7.
Brown felt running in the Flower Bowl and then coming back in four weeks might be too much for the seven-time Grade 1 winner, who has finished third in both of her starts in 2020.
Sharp Samurai will make his next start in a Breeders’ Cup race on Nov. 7 at Keeneland, but a decision on whether the five-time stakes winner runs in the BC Mile on turf or the Dirt Mile has yet to be finalized.
“Everything is on the table,” trainer Mark Glatt said Thursday.
Regular workouts and maintaining fitness are the focus with the stakes-winning fillies Ce Ce and Speech in coming weeks. Specific race plans may not be determined until early November.
Friday at Santa Anita, Ce Ce and Speech worked five furlongs in company for scheduled starts in Breeders’ Cup races on Nov. 7 at Keeneland. Both are likely to be cross-entered in the Distaff at 1 1/8 miles and the Filly and Mare Sprint at seven furlongs, trainer Michael McCarthy said.