Articles
Quality Road looks for redemption in Grade 1 Woodward
Jenny Kellner
NYRA/Saratogo Race Course
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – At the beginning of the year, when trainer Todd Pletcher and owner Edward P. Evans began mapping out Quality Road’s run to the Breeders’ Cup Classic, it included several key stops, including the Grade 1 Donn Handicap, the Grade 1 Met Mile, and the Grade 1 Whitney.
Everything was going according to plan until the final yards of the Whitney, when Quality Road was nabbed at the wire by Blame…
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Handicapping
Invaders look to muscle up in Sapling at Monmouth
Ron Correll
Senior columnist
Tracksideview.com
The 77th running Grade 3 Sapling at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, N.J. on Saturday is interesting because there are four horses dropping into this race after running in the Grade 2 Sanford on July 25 at Saratoga Race Course.
Those four horses are: Maybesomaybenot (first in the Sanford), Nacho Saint (second), Another Silver Oak (third) and Chipshot (fifth). Chipshot had some trouble in the Sanford and adds blinkers for the Sapling.
Another invader…
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View from the Grandstand
Scratch your head and put this one on your watch list
Bob Hill
Staff writer
It’s not often that much is reported about $25,000 claiming races, but when a horse wins twice within a span of 68 hours a story is made. El Real Madrid, a five-year-old son of Boundary, actually raced three times within eight days, finishing second in the first race of the trio on the grass down at Monmouth Park on Aug. 18. That race, contested at a mile and 70 yards, was a $22,000 claiming contest. …
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Race Results
(Edited Del Mar Thoroughbred Club report)
DEL MAR, Calif. – Keyed by 29-1 longshot Win for M’lou’s surprise victory in the featured $54,000 Del Mar Kiwanis Purse, Del Mar’s Friday program will have a $488,667 carryover for Pick Six players to shoot for.
Post time for the first race Friday is 3:30 p.m., with Pick Six wagering conducted on the third through eight races. With a carryover of almost a half-million dollars, the pool could go as high as $2.5…
Jenny Kellner
NYRA/Saratoga Race Course
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Queen of the Creek made it two in a row at Saratoga Race Course, going wire-to-wire to win the $75,000 Riskaverse as the fairy-tale story of previously undefeated Lisa’s Booby Trap ended with a last-place finish in the one-mile turf race for 3-year-old fillies.
Lisa’s Booby Trap, who had won four straight on the dirt, never appeared comfortable on the grass under Hall of Fame jockey Kent Desormeaux, tucked away…
Ron Correll
Senior columnist
Tracksideview.com
Trainer Will Phipps thought he had a good one in his barn with Fancy Point and she proved him right when the 2-year-old daughter of Point Given led from start to finish in the P.G. Johnson Stakes on the inner turf course Wednesday at Saratoga Race Course in upstate New York.
“We’re very lucky people. We’re honored to have a horse for the Steinbrenners – this one is for the big guy.…
(Edited Del Mar Thoroughbred Club report)
DEL MAR, Calif. – Under a perfect ride from jockey Patrick Valenzuela, longshot Hi Ho Yodeler darted between horses at the top of the stretch and went on to win the featured $100,000 Generous Portion for California-bred two-year-old fillies Wednesday.
Hi Ho Yodeler, a 15-1 outsider in a field of 13 fillies, broke alertly, was moved to the rail to track the leaders, was guided around a single rival, Miles Rules, in the upper…
(Edited Del Mar Thoroughbred Club report)
DEL MAR, Calif. – Champ Pegasus, the 3-2 favorite under leading rider Joel Rosario, rallied along the rail through the stretch with an impressive burst of speed to win the featured $200,000 Del Mar Handicap Sunday before 14,913 fans.
Outrun in the early stages of the mile and three-eighths marathon over the infield grass course, Champ Pegasus saved ground on the final turn then made his move in the final eighth to win by…
A BRILLIANT IDEA RALLIES LATE TO TAKE JUNIOR CHAMPION STAKES
John Heims
Monmouth Park
Oceanport, N.J. – In the final start of her career, J. Larry and Cindy Jones’ Just Jenda went out a winner and re-affirmed her love for Monmouth Park by capturing the 65th running of the Grade 2, $300,000 Molly Pitcher Stakes, while A Brilliant Idea stormed home to take the Junior Champion Sunday at Monmouth Park.
Ridden by Terry Thompson for trainer Cindy Jones,…
Picking Winners
With Anticipation is chance for two-year-old turfers to shine Rick Francis
Staff writer
Tracksideview.com
(Rick goes solo with the With Anticipation on Friday at Saratoga Race Course)
Grade 3 With Anticipation for two-year-olds on turf at a mile-and-a-sixteenth at Saratoga
TYPHOON SLEW (1), very impressive Ellis Park score at a mile on the sod. Hats off to the DRF staff’s description in their comment line for “As rider pleased.” I guess next it’ll be, ridden out side saddle. This one steps way up. POWHATANCOUNTY (2), roughed up…
Race Preview
Pletcher looks to repeat in With Anticipation at Saratoga Race Course Ashley Herriman
NYRA/Saratoga Race Course
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Juveniles take to the turf Friday for the seventh renewal of the Grade 3, $100,000 With Anticipation Stakes, which trainer Todd Pletcher will attempt to win for the second consecutive year.
In 2009, Pletcher saddled Interactif to an eye-catching 4¼-length victory in the race after being impressed by the way the colt – whose first two starts came on the dirt, including an eighth-place finish in the Grade 2…
Racetrack Reports
Del Mar, Saratoga report handles Attendance Still Up, Handle Off Slightly At Six-Week Mark
DEL MAR, Calif. – Figures at the six-week point of the Del Mar race meeting continued to follow the same pattern they have all meet long with attendance up over 2009’s numbers, while overall handle is down slightly from last summer’s bet amounts.
Through Sunday’s (8/29/10) 30th day of the track’s 37-day session, the daily average on-track crowd count was up 2.3 percent from 18,179 per afternoon in 2009 to 18,605…
Iron Maidens
P.G. Johnson at Saratoga gives turf fillies a chance to be rising stars Laurie Ross
Iron Maidens Thoroughbreds
The P.G. Johnson Stakes for two year old fillies will be held over Saratoga’s inner turf course at 1 1/16 miles on Sept. 1. The race has only been contested for three years, but Meadow Breeze, who was second in this race last year, won the Grade 1 Matron. The top finishers in the P.G. Johnson could move forward toward a start in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Filly Turf. Only a few of the…
NTRA Releases
NTRA.com opens new memorabilia and collectables store NTRA release
NTRA.com, the official Web site of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association, is now offering horse racing memorabilia for sale on its new NTRA Memorabilia and Collectables page.
Fans may choose from a wide assortment of photos, racing programs, racing goggles, glasses and other memorabilia—including numerous signed items. The memorabilia includes items featuring such stars as Zenyatta, Rachel Alexandra, Barbaro, Secretariat, Seattle Slew, Affirmed, Genuine Risk, Forego and Ruffian. All NTRA Memorabilia and Collectable purchases include a certificate of…
Trainers and Jockeys
Longtime Chicago trainer Tom Tomillo passes away at 66 (Edited Arlington Park release)
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – Illinois racing lost one of its most ardent supporters when longtime trainer Tom Tomillo passed away Wednesday evening at Alexian Brothers Medical Center in Elk Grove Village, Ill. He was 66 years old.
A fixture in Chicago racing for more than more than five decades, first as an owner and later as a trainer, Tomillo won his first race as a trainer at Arlington Park in 1971. Tomillo’s barn won at least…
