PORTLAND, Ore. - Owner Kathleen Moody's CPR First Mate will shoot for a fourth consecutive win at Portland Meadows on Saturday, when he takes on six other 3-year-old Quarter Horses in the $6,000-added Memorial Stakes at 350 yards.
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HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - In addition to Whywhywhy, who will run in Saturday's Fountain of Youth Stakes, trainer Patrick Biancone brought three other runners to Florida from California, and he will have a fifth horse join them in the next two weeks. All are 3-year-olds.
Most prominent among Biancone's supporting cast will be Stellar, a filly who had a productive summer at Saratoga last year. She won her debut, was second in the Adirondack Stakes, and fourth in the Spinaway Stakes.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Mr. Pleasentfar, winless since taking the 2001 Red Smith Handicap, rallied seven wide down the center of the Gulfstream Park turf course to nail front-running Wertz by a neck in Thursday's featured $42,000 optional claiming race.
Mr. Pleasentfar, who was coming out of poor efforts in a pair of graded stakes at Calder and Gulfstream, was sent off at 28-1, the longest shot in the eight-horse field. He had been 0 for 6 since winning the Grade 2 Red Smith at Aqueduct in November 2001.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - As of 6:15 p.m. Eastern on Thursday, the mutuel field was the 4-5 favorite in early betting on Pool 1 of the 2003 Kentucky Derby Future Wager.
Having opened at noon, the win-only future wager had attracted $39,053 in handle during its first six-plus hours.
The four-day wager is scheduled to continue through Sunday at 6:30 p.m. Eastern. It is available in 34 states and through the Television Games Network online wagering service
ARCADIA, Calif. - Three straight mornings of wet weather from Tuesday through Thursday had Southern California trainers remembering the good old days of last month when a normally wet January came and went without a drop of rain.
Because of the conditions, training was restricted during the middle of the week. Only the outside of the main track was open, for joggers, with the inside sealed to protect it for afternoon racing. The Santa Anita training track was open, but there were few workouts over that surface.
ARCADIA, Calif. - It is understandable if bettors are reluctant to forgive Humorous Lady for her two losses at the Santa Anita meeting.
The winner of the Grade 2 Astarita Stakes at Belmont Park last October, Humorous Lady was sixth in the California Breeders' Champion Stakes on Dec. 27 and third in the Sunshine Millions Oaks on Jan. 25. In the Breeders' Champion and Millions Oaks, both seven-furlong races, she led early before fading through the stretch.
Testify, a proven turf sprinter, and Rahy's Secret, a two-turn stakes winner who won going short on grass in his last start, will meet for the first time Saturday night in the $50,000 Sam Houston Turf Sprint, one of five undercard stakes on a program topped by the $200,000 Connally Breeders' Cup Turf.
The five-furlong Turf Sprint also drew Proven Cure, who won the local prep for the race for trainer John Locke.
NEW ORLEANS - Take Charge Lady blew into town from Florida a year ago and won the Silverbulletday Stakes by more than eight lengths, equaling the track record for 1 1/16 miles. This year's race hardly could be more different. Bumped up to Grade 2 status, the $150,000 Silverbulletday drew a field of eight 3-year-old fillies just trying to fit into the division, not dominate it.
ARCADIA, Calif. - The last time The Tin Man tried 1 1/2 miles it was before an international audience in the nation's richest turf race, the $2 million Breeders' Cup Turf last October at Arlington Park.
The Tin Man will face a much easier job in Saturday's $200,000 San Luis Obispo Handicap at Santa Anita.
With the benefit of a recent prep race - a close second in the San Marcos Stakes on Jan. 20 - The Tin Man will be a strong favorite in the San Luis Obispo, which has drawn seven entrants.