$125 WINNER A RACE EARLIER SPARKS $74,470 PICK SIX CARRYOVER INTO SATURDAY

(Edited Oak Tree at Santa Anita report)

ARCADIA, Calif. – Hermione’s Magic, the 11-10 favorite, justified her support Friday when jockey Garrett Gomez steered her between horses in the stretch to capture Oak Tree’s featured $43,912 Intercontinental Purse for fillies and mares by a widening three-quarters of a length over second choice Linda Lou while racing one mile on Santa Anita’s Camino Real Turf Course.

(Edited Laurel Park report)

LAUREL, Md. – Our Chelsea Stable’s Greenspring is a star in the making after delivering a powerful performance in Friday’s $34,000 feature at Laurel Park. The Chris Grove trained colt, now four for five lifetime, charged to the lead in mid-stretch and won off by 4-1/2 lengths in 1:09.49 for the six- furlong distance over the fast main track.

Ed Golden
Oak Tree at Santa Anita

ARCADIA, Calif – With eight racing days remaining in the Oak Tree meet and the eyes of the racing world zeroing in on 14 Breeders’ Cup World Championship races next Friday and Saturday, Bob Baffert and John Sadler not only are neck and neck for the training title, more importantly they are focusing on $25.5 million in Breeders’ Cup prize money.

(Edited Keeneland Association report)

Lexington, Ky. – Jockey Julia Brimo, who suffered injuries when her mount, Golden Stride, clipped heels and fell during Friday’s first race at Keeneland, has been listed in “critical” condition by the University of Kentucky Medical Center.

Bob Hill
Staff writer
Tracksideview.com

Saturday at the 2009 Breeders’ Cup

Eight Breeders’ Cup contests highlight the card for Saturday, Nov. 7 at Oak Tree at Santa Anita.  With the announcement of pre-entries earlier this week, the scope of speculation can now be narrowed since we at least know the names of horses whose connections intend for them to run next week.  Horses shown in italics have been cross entered in two races, and the number following their…

 (Edited NYRA/Aqueduct Race Track report)

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Jet Set Racing Stables’ Tomcito, a dual Group 1 winner in Peru who finished third to Big Brown in the 2008 Florida Derby, will make his return to the races at Aqueduct on Saturday, Nov. 14, in the Grade 3, $100,000 Stuyvesant.

(Edited Meadowlands Racetrack report)

EAST RUTHERFOLRD, N.J. – If divine luck is on his side, Lightning Power might have more than a ghost of a chance when he runs on Halloween at Meadowlands Racetrack.

The 7-year-old gelding is one of nine horses entered in the The Grey Ghost, a $35,000 starter handicap reserved strictly for horses grey or roan in color, on Saturday night.  The mile and a sixteenth turf race is an annual Halloween treat for fans that look…

NYRA release

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The New York Racing Association Inc. (NYRA) announced Friday that it imposed a six month penalty on trainer Jeffrey Mullins for violating NYRA’s monitoring barn rules and regulations. For the term of this penalty Mullins will be denied entry in NYRA races and will be denied access to NYRA grounds.

Brian Skirka
NYRA/Aqueduct Race Track

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – In each of the past four years, Team Valor International’s millionaire mare Unbridled Belle has competed in some of New York’s premier stakes races.

In 2006, as a 3-year-old, the daughter of Broken Vow was fourth in the Grade 1 Alabama and the Grade 1 Gazelle and in 2007, after finishing second in the Grade 1 Personal Ensign at Saratoga, the Todd Pletcher trainee was back for another try at…

 Jenny Kellner
NYRA/Aqueduct Race Track)

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainer Eoin Harty, born in Ireland and based in southern California, is rarely seen without his New York Yankees baseball cap. But the fact that Saturday night is Game 3 of the World Series between the Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies is not the real reason he has shipped Past the Point to Aqueduct Racetrack for the 34th running of the Grade 3, $150,000 Bold Ruler.