Mon, 08/19/2002 - 00:00

You won't see You until 2003

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - You, the five-time Grade 1 winner who finished third in Saturday's Alabama Stakes, will not race again this year, trainer Bobby Frankel said Sunday morning. She will return as a 4-year-old, most likely starting her campaign at the Belmont Park spring meet of 2003.

Frankel said there is nothing physically wrong with You, but said the filly deserves a break. Also, he doesn't believe You could unseat Kentucky Oaks and Alabama winner Farda Amiga for the Eclipse Award as the 3-year-old filly champion.

Mon, 08/19/2002 - 00:00

Million Day sets handle record

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - For the second straight year, single-day handle records for Arlington Park and Illinois were set on Arlington Million Day.

Saturday's 12-race program attracted $15,851,625 in all-sources wagering. Last year, just over $14 million was wagered on Million Day.

Mon, 08/19/2002 - 00:00

Sorority: When superfillies collide

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Two-year-old fillies Advancing Storm and Wild Snitch won maiden races impressively at Monmouth Park Aug. 7 two hours apart. And on Sunday, both went out to the track for their final workouts heading into the Grade 3, $100,000 Sorority. Hailing from top-notch 2-year-old barns, they will be two of the top choices in Sunday's Sorority, the last graded stakes of the meet.

Mon, 08/19/2002 - 00:00

A messy surface switch

OCEANPORT, N.J. - The betting public and trainers at Monmouth Park were left in confusion Sunday when negotiations between jockeys and track officials about the safety of the turf course led to two turf stakes being switched to the main track. The changes occurred after trainers were arriving at the paddock with their horses for the sixth race and pick four players had already purchased their tickets for the multi-race bet that began a race earlier.

Mon, 08/19/2002 - 00:00

Bosque Redondo enters Classic fray

DEL MAR, Calif. - The starting field for Sunday's $1 million Pacific Classic grew in size, and the potential for more speed increased as well, when trainer Paco Gonzalez said that Bosque Redondo would join stablemate Came Home in the Classic, Del Mar's richest race of the season.

Mon, 08/19/2002 - 00:00

Secretariat: Chiselling by a nose

Chiselling made a torrid run to deal Jazz Beat a heart-breaking nose defeat in the $400,000 Secretariat Stakes, allowing Juddmonte Farms and Bobby Frankel to become the first owner and trainer to win two races the same year in the International Festival of Racing at Arlington Park.

Chiselling, bred and owned by Juddmonte Farms, was last of the seven 3-year-olds for the first six furlongs of the 1 1/4-mile Secretariat before jockey Kent Desormeaux began asking the colt for his best.

Mon, 08/19/2002 - 00:00

Beverly D.: Golden Apples upsets Astra

Golden Apples gave owner Gary Tanaka his second victory in the last three runnings of the Beverly D. after getting a great trip and scoring by three-quarters of a length over favored Astra in the Grade 1 event.

Golden Apples, trained by Ben Cecil, returned $6.80 as second choice in a field of six fillies and mares. Tanaka won the 2000 Beverly D. with Snow Polina.

Mon, 08/19/2002 - 00:00

Beat Hollow runs like a million

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - The big horse isn't just gifted, he's brave. Beat Hollow dug down deep and won a thrilling Arlington Million, passing Forbidden Apple in the final yards while holding off a desperate rally from his arch rival, Sarafan.

Beat Hollow's winning margin was a head in the most competitive Arlington Million ever. Sarafan was second by a nose over Forbidden Apple, with only little more than a length separating the first six finishers in the race.

Mon, 08/19/2002 - 00:00

Del Mar: Disturbingthepeace doubles up

DEL MAR, Calif. - Disturbingthepeace became the first horse since 1991 to sweep Del Mar's major stakes races for sprinters with a hard-fought victory over Hot Market in the $150,000 Pat O'Brien Handicap.

The victory was the sixth straight for Disturbingthepeace, who has steadily progressed from a California-bred allowance sprinter to the West's best around one turn. But the 3-5 favorite gave his backers, and trainer Darrell Vienna, some anxious moments, because Hot Market would not go quietly.

Mon, 08/19/2002 - 00:00

Cat's at Home leads all the way in Iselin

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Cat's at Home won his second stakes of the meet with a wire-to-wire victory in the Grade 2, $350,000 Iselin Handicap. Cat's at Home, at 10-1, won by three-quarters of a length over second choice Bowman's Band, with Runspastum a neck farther back in third in the 1 1/8-mile race.

Include, the lone Grade 1 winner in the field and the 1-2 favorite, finished sixth in the seven-horse field, beaten 16 lengths. Include's jockey, Jerry Bailey declined to comment on the race and trainer Bud Delp said Include looked like he pulled up okay.