MIAMI - Silver Wagon and Chatter Chatter, two of the more talented 2-year-olds stabled on the grounds, will be the marquee names on Saturday's Grand Slam I program at Calder, a 12-race card highlighted by four stakes races valued at $100,000 apiece.
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INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Mountain Rage has spent the last 18 months trying to duplicate the form that led to three consecutive stakes wins in early 2002.
During the winter and spring of that year at Santa Anita, Mountain Rage won the Hill Rise, Academy Road, and La Puente Stakes. But when the graded stakes began for 3-year-olds on turf, Mountain Rage went into a form reversal.
Trained by Bob Baffert, Mountain Rage has lost seven consecutive starts, a trend that could be reversed in a $48,000 optional claimer over 1 1/4 miles on turf at Hollywood Park on Friday.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - The progress of Green Team from $32,000 claimer to stakes winner in the last four months has caught trainer Jeff Bonde by surprise.
In four starts since being claimed, Green Team has won three races and earned $185,460. The wins range in value from a $40,000 claimer at Del Mar to the California Cup Sprint at Santa Anita last month.
Saturday, Green Team tries for his second stakes win in the $95,000 On Trust Handicap at Hollywood Park.
ALBANY, Calif. - Trainer Jerry McArthur, who just claimed O.K. Mikie for $25,000, will show how highly he regards his new purchase when he sends him out in Saturday's $75,000-added Gold Rush Stakes at Golden Gate Fields.
O.K. Mikie, a 2-year-old gelding who has 3 victories in 4 career starts, suffered his lone defeat in the Oct. 19 Bay Meadows Juvenile, his first race at Saturday's one-mile distance.
McArthur said that Ellen Jackson, O.K. Mikie's breeder and former trainer, "said he wasn't fit for that race, that he'd been at her ranch."
NEW ORLEANS - The 6-year-old Zarb's Luck is by the Louisiana stallion Zarbyev, a son of the top-class turf sire Nureyev, and out of a mare by Vice Regent. The pedigree slants heavily toward grass, and that's why Eddie Johnston reached in and took Zarb's Luck out of a $25,000 maiden claimer at Fair Grounds on the last day of 1999.
"When I claimed him, I was looking for a grass horse to go long," said Johnston. "He didn't want any part of it. The first time we tried him [on turf], at Louisiana Downs, he hopped like a bunny all the way around there."
OZONE PARK, N.Y. - A rare weekday stakes, the $60,000-added Mom's Command, spices things up at Aqueduct on Friday.
Among the six 2-year-old fillies entered is Forest Music, who flopped as the favorite in her last start in the Grade 3 Valley Stream on Nov. 23.
Others in the six-furlong race are Stoic, who finished third in the Valley Stream, and Sweet Vision, who finished second behind Stoic in an allowance race on Halloween.
Crista Talbot made a gutsy career move this fall, when, at 31, she decided to enter a world dominated by teenagers and become an apprentice jockey. She rode her first winner Aug. 30, aboard the Danny Pish-trained Golden John, and is one of a handful of apprentices based this winter at Sam Houston Race Park.
The purse for the Delta Jackpot, a $1 million race for 2-year-olds run last Friday night at Delta Downs, will remain $1 million, said Jack Bernsmeier, senior vice president of Louisiana properties for Boyd Gaming, which owns Delta. But he wants to take the $1 million race concept a step further in Louisiana.