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GOLDEN GATE FIELDS, CA — On bright June mornings at the end of training when a cool breeze is skimmed from the top of San Francisco Bay, Golden Gate Fields suspends in midair. The remaining horses gallop by almost silently, save for a sound like the ripple of a kite tugging at a string. Behind them, the infield water fountains shiver and hiss while above, western gulls turn and wheel on invisible wires. It's a world contained–its shoulder braced against the whirring cogs of time, straining against the pull. Then your eyes lift to the traffic crawling the I-580. Your ears adjust to the constant hum of cars headed to brunch dates and shopping trips and hikes up Mount Diablo. Even in its faded pomp, the yawning grandstand seems to call out to them proudly. “Look out your window! Come visit!” Every so often, one of the cars heeds the call. But few do–not anymore. In trying to pause the clock, the risk is that time gives up on you altogether. “I always say, if you can't say anything good, don't say anything at all,” says a figure hunched over the rail at the entrance to the track, her grew hair swept back, cracked hands ingrained with dirt. She doesn't want her name used. She's tired, dejected. This Sunday, The Stronach Group (TSG) owned track will stage its very last race. And then the fate of hundreds of Northern California-based trainers, grooms, hotwalkers, breeders, exercise riders and jockeys could hinge on the success or failure of a 10-week meet this fall at the Alameda County Fair in Pleasanton about 35 miles away, depending on the route. “It's just rotten what's been done to us,” she eventually says, forgetting her well-intentioned mantra. D. Waybe Baker barn area | Dan Ross Just then, her companion at the rail–a tall, portly man with a citrus orange t-shirt pulled tight over his stomach–suddenly breaks off towards his barn. The woman perks up: His exercise rider has exited the track one circuit too soon. “Then just tell him to go back,” she calls out, and chuckles when the man shrugs his shoulders. She trundles off in the same direction. “I'll see you around, I guess,” she says, over her shoulder. “Someplace, anyways.” “It's terrible. No bueno,” says Octavio Saldana, 37, hosepipe in hand as he fills the last of the water buckets in the barn of his boss, trainer D. Wayne Baker. Theirs is a corner of the backstretch just a few hundred feet from the Bay, where the waters break against the rocks. The barn is a paint-pot amid a faded watercolor of a backstretch, where splintered doorframes are eaten raw, thin walls slant inwards and roofs sag. Rickety barrows rigged with bicycle wheels are discarded next to broken pitchforks. Parked cars look as though they could rust in a second. But not at D. Wayne Baker's stable. The entrance wears a garland of flowers like a Kentucky Derby winner. An empty concrete water fountain in the middle of a neatly raked walking ring suggests a certain exotic splendor. The interior is just as carefully kept, all thanks to the work of employees like Saldana, who doesn't want to leave his workplace of 11 years. Saldana will commute to Pleasanton from the Bay Area, where he lives with his wife and daughter, when the barn relocates wholesale in the next week or so. “I've got no choice,” he says. “I don't know why they close this place. But what can we do?” Saldana wears the watchful demeanor of someone who rarely stops thinking about his horses. He takes a question about memories and heads straight to a pretty, sweet-natured gelding with a nose as soft as moss–Honeymoonz Over, a modern legend at Golden Gate, with a taste for nibbling visitors' backpacks. At the grand old age of nine, Honeymoonz Over has won 19 races here, “sixteen of them for me,” Saldana says, proudly. Saldana remembers one week at Golden Gate some six or seven years ago when he won four races back-to-back. He rubs his chin as he tries to recall their names. A few barns over lives a long-time track resident who could give Ken Burns a run for his money. Golden Gate stable area | Dan Ross “I don't remember people's names, but I remember horses' names,” says trainer Melanie McDonald, leant against the doorway of room number six, behind her a jar of pickles open on a small fold-away table. Just off to the side, her husband Frank, 90, listens in while hanging a sentry of worn red bandages in the sun. At 86, McDonald has a broad open face crisscrossed with deep lines, like a carpenter's workbench. She's small and wiry and strong. A few years ago, weeks after almost dying of COVID, she was back to work lugging around bales of straw on her back. McDonald first came to Golden Gate in 1957, walking hots for trainer Buck Logan. She remembers a time when women weren't allowed to be exercise riders–but she did it anyway, when the men let her. She remembers galloping a stakes-class mare called Mystic Air who once jumped a snake slithering across a dirt road like it was a fence. And she remembers the early years of her training career, before Frank joined in the fun. “I had a horse called Meadow Blade who was by Sword Dancer,” says McDonald, recalling an older mare with some distant form on Belmont Park's turf course. “I think it was the first year they had the grass course here,” she says. And so, she entered the mare on the new turf. “She ended up winning and paid pretty good, too.” “My husband, who I didn't really know at the time, bet on her. He was good friends with another guy I was training for. He won a whole bunch of money out of me on the Exacta. I think the Exacta paid $2,600 or something. And that's how I met my husband,” says McDonald, “that mare winning on the grass.” McDonald reserves special place for the celebrity closer Silky Sullivan, who in the late 1950s did more to raise blood-pressures up and down the state than saturated fats. She remembers asking Logan for the afternoon off to see Silky Sullivan run at Golden Gate. “Those days the paddock was kind of where the winner's circle is now. It was a big round cement thing. There were stairs going down to it for the public so they could view the horses-the horses were lore back then,” says McDonald, her pale blue eyes clouding in the clear morning sunlight. “We went down three races early so that we could get a place right up front to watch Silky Sullivan in the paddock,” says McDonald. “He was a beautiful chestnut horse. When you're a kid, and I was a horse mad girl, you thought he was a god.” Lost in the Fog memorial wall | Dan Ross Silky Sullivan was buried in the Golden Gate infield in 1977, his head pointed East at the behest of his owner, Kjell Qvale. In the Turf Club, a sprawling memorial adorns the wall for another revered champion, Lost in the Fog, the Eclipse-winner who for one glorious summer in 2005 grounded the nation's quickest lightning bolts. “That's one of the best memories we've had in Lost in the Fog. And Soviet Problem. She was pretty incredible,” says trainer Gloria Haley, perched in the rail-side shelter near the stable entrance, a wide-brimmed visor and Jackie O sunglasses giving her a certain presidential glamour. Bred and owned by John Harris and Don Valpredo, Soviet Problem was another Greg Gilchrist high achiever, to go with Lost in the Fog. He shepherded her to 15 career wins, seven of them at Golden Gate. In 1994, only Cherokee Run's head stood between the Moscow Ballet mare and a win in the GI Breeders' Cup Sprint. “Soviet Problem? I broke her,” says Jacqui Navarre, from the other end of the shelter. “Yeah, I broke her,” she adds, when Haley voices surprise. “Quite a mare,” Haley says, under her breath. Navarre is a multi-hyphenate who can't sit still. She's an exercise rider and trainer and she ponies on race-day. She describes the imminent move of her five-horse stable to Pleasanton in resigned terms, familiar with the process but far from happy. “We've seen it all before,” Navarre says, slowly nodding. In 1992, the closure of Longacres racetrack in Washington State drove her to Portland Meadows in Oregon. She moved to Golden Gate some 13 years ago, well before TSG closed Portland Meadows in 2019. “It's the Trail of Tears,” Haley intones. Navarre will dearly miss the place, she says–in particular, a surface that she says is as kind on a horse's legs as anywhere. Indeed, Golden Gate is year-in, year-out among the very safest tracks in the country. And she'll miss the community. “We've been to so many tracks that close, but for some reason this one bothers me the most,” she says. “You know how it is in racing. You hate someone one minute, but you're good the next. At the end of the day, this is such a tight-knit group.” Navarre gets to her feet, off to pony one in the next. “They say the view of the Bay from the men's room is spectacular,” she says, as she marches off, before adding: “Obviously, I've never been in there.” It turns out the view is even better atop the entire grandstand, along the stretch of roof that Bill Downes takes before he calls the races from high up in his roost. He took the job at the end of last year. Six months isn't really long enough to lay down roots. Bill Downes in the booth | Dan Ross “Not really,” Downes replies, when asked if he's a lump-in-the-throat kind of guy. Downes is already thinking about his next gigs, wherever they may be–just outside the door of his booth is the end of the world. Through the sturdy limbs of Golden Gate Bridge, the view is one that millions have taken in over the years, inspired and haunted by it, and always left wondering. In a concrete bunker somewhere not too far from the simulcasting windows is the track's archive room. It's as dark in there as a Watergate break-in. The lights don't work. Shelves are lined with dusty videocassettes, left there from the days of Sam Spear, the former Bay Area sports media maven. But there are a few old cardboard boxes brimming with newspapers. Russell Baze smiles out from many of them. But not all. “Did you see the film clip of Vice President Gore dancing with his wife?” a 70-year-old former rhythm-and-blues star called Charles Brown told the Oakland Tribune on opening day in 1993. “I was the one playing on the stage.” Lost in the Fog, Shared Belief, Bold Chieftain–these are the Golden Gate headliners that main track superintendent, Juan Meza, 63, ticks off. But not for his favorite moments. “Those are when I see every horse make it to the wire safe. Every morning, to see all the horses training with no injuries and no riders injured,” he says, beneath the shade of a tree at the north end of the facility. It's his favorite spot–from there, no stumble, jinx or fall anywhere on the track is hidden from his view. He's worked the surface for about 20 years. There's a quiet carefulness about Meza, as though each thought has been chewed over a hundred times. A quiet determination, too. He's known to put in 25-hour days, one after the other. “I take things really personal–really serious,” says Meza. “To me, time doesn't matter. I could spend day and night here. I do that because I love it. I do what it takes.” Juan Meza | Dan Ross Such bloody-mindedness, however, is hardly the recipe for marital bliss. “I've been lucky with my wife. She supports me 100%. Otherwise, it would be difficult,” Meza says. General manager David Duggan's marriage to the track has been shorter and more tumultuous. “I used to get cross at her,” says Duggan, at a Turf Club table, referring to the old track like it was the Queen Mary. “When we got a lot of rain or it didn't rain properly, I called her terrible names. But she was a very, very graceful track. She did a lot more than people realized. Duggan helped put together a video–played at a recent backstretch farewell meal–showing the track's history since its 1941 launch. Its role as a naval landing equipment depot during WWII. Where Willie Shoemaker beat in 1953 the record for most wins in a single year. Where Noor cleared away from Triple Crown winner Citation to claim the 1950 Golden Gate Handicap. The days and weeks after the very last race, however, “I think that's when it'll probably dawn on me,” Duggan says, of what is to befall the great old place, and the people who made it so. All too soon Golden Gate Fields will be manned by a spartan army, figures scurrying here and there preparing for the auctioning off of memorabilia and equipment. They'll dismantle the rails and lock up the barn area. Chained and padlocked, the place will echo with hollow footfalls and a wind that has blown across the Bay since the very first sunrise discovered this paradise. And the drivers on the I-580 will continue to pass by, oblivious to this locked tomb and the solitary freeway sign that had once signaled its life. Oblivious to what is. Oblivious to what was. Eyes forward, missing a race already lost. 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Today 7th June in horse racing news history From the extensive Horse Betting news archives we present the all the thoroughbred racing action in Australian and overseas racing news in history. Delve in and enjoy our walk back in horse racing time. Horse Racing Tips 40 mins ago Today Australian horse racing tips & betting previews | 7/6/24 Four horse racing meetings are scheduled in Australia on Friday. See HorseBetting’s free racing tips for horse racing on June … Read More Horse Racing Tips 45 mins ago Today’s horse racing bookmaker offers & betting promo’s | 7/6/24 Explore exclusive free bonus and money back offers for HorseBetting customers with the best horse racing bookmakers on Friday, June … Read More Horse Racing Tips 1 year ago Swan Hill racing preview & best bets | Friday, June 9 An eight-race card is set down for decision at Swan Hill on Friday afternoon. 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Eclipse Award-winning apprentice jockey Drayden Van Dyke, a mainstay in Southern California, will move his tack to Gulfstream Park for 30 days to ride for trainer Saffie Joseph, Jr. The multiple Grade I-winning rider and his agent, Ryan Cosato, will then evaluate where Van Dyke will be based in the future. “We'll bring him out there for about a month,” said Cosato. “If he does well, we'll go from there. There's no big announcement. We're just giving it a try.” Van Dyke took a break from riding for a few months last fall, then returned in January at Santa Anita. He has had two winners and 13 runner-up finishes from 57 mounts. “I've never paid too close attention,” said Joseph. “I know what he's accomplished, obviously. It just seems like he's not doing any good out there. When it gets like that, you need a change. If I can help someone get their career going, why not help someone get going?” Van Dyke will ride debuting maiden Southern Palace (Palace Malice) in Race 3 on Friday at Gulfstream for Joseph, who also has him named on four horses both Saturday and Sunday. “Saffie and I have a relationship from about five years back when he had some horses for Slam Dunk Racing,” said Cosato. “I worked for Slam Dunk Racing for about seven years out of college and I've been an agent for a year starting last August. Saffie reached out to me about two weeks ago and asked me if I still had Drayden's book. He said he wanted to help and wanted to bring him out there.” The post Drayden Van Dyke Shifts Tack to Gulfstream appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Observations on the European Racing Scene turns the spotlight on the best European races of the day, highlighting well-pedigreed horses early in their careers, horses of note returning to action and young runners that achieved notable results in the sales ring. Friday's Observations features a seven-figure son of Galileo (Ire). 20.03 Haydock, Nov, £10,000, 2yo, 6f 212yT Godolphin's 1-million guineas Craven Breeze-Up sale topper ROYAL OFFICER (IRE) (Galileo {Ire}) is a son of stakes-placed G1 1000 Guineas fourth Manderley (Ire) (Clodovil {Ire}) and thus a sibling of Listed Prix de la Seine victrix Hidden Dimples (Ire) (Frankel {GB}). The Charlie Appleby-trained debutant encounters eight rivals headed by Yuesheng Zhang's 650,000gns October Book 1 graduate Best Adventure (Ire) (Frankel {GB}), an Andrew Balding-trained son of G1 Irish 1000 Guineas third Foxtrot Liv (GB) (Foxwedge {Aus}). The post Craven Breeze-Up Sensation Set For Haydock Debut appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. has been excused from his mounts for the second half of the June 6 card after he was unseated by Arianna Rye ahead of the fifth race.View the full article

Belmont Stakes (G1) starters Mindframe and Protective both gave the impressions of classic-type horses when selected by bloodstock agent Jacob West for Mike Repole and St. Elias Stables at the 2022 Keeneland September Sale. View the full article

Part of a Todd Pletcher-trained and Ramona Bass-owned entry favored at 45 cents on the dollar with each filly making her first trip to the races, AUDACIOUS (f, 3, Into Mischief–Veracity, by Distorted Humor) turned in a professional racetrack debut, and although things appeared to get a bit dicey in the final 30 yards, had done enough to become a 'TDN Rising Star'. Drawn one to the outside of her homebred stablemate Chanteuse (Into Mischief) in gate six, the $700,000 Keeneland September yearling purchase actually won the break, but was content to drift back into fourth, but handy, as Chanteuse took them into the far turn. Clicked up three wide on the turn, Audacious was poised three furlongs out and had the front-runner in the crosshairs moving past the quarter pole. With a confident John Velazquez at the controls, Audacious easily gathered up Charteuse with three-sixteenths of a mile to run and threatened to pull away to a wide-margin victory. Only tenderly–some might say audaciously–ridden by Velazquez and idling noticeably entering the final sixteenth of a mile, Audacious was only under hands-and-heels encouragement and was home about a length better than 15-1 Refuse To Lose (Union Rags), whose dam Victory Party (Yankee Victor) is a half-sister to the winner's sire in addition to Beholder, Mendelssohn, et al. Perhaps the eyecatcher of the bunch was Stuart Janney III's Silvology (Blame), who veered inward at the start and was clearly last early, but got home very well to just miss second. Sales history: $700,000 Ylg '22 KEESEP. O-Bass Racing LLC; B-Fifth Avenue Bloodstock (KY); T-Todd Pletcher. AUDACIOUS, the 3YO daughter of @spendthriftfarm stallion Into Mischief, breaks her maiden in the sixth race with @ljlmvel aboard for trainer @PletcherRacing. pic.twitter.com/b5MRHvcist — Belmont Stakes (@BelmontStakes) June 6, 2024 The post Debuting Into Mischief Filly Audacious A New ‘Rising Star’ at Saratoga appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY — Trainer Wesley Ward said it was his fault that 'TDN Rising Star' Long Neck Paula (Uncle Mo), the 2-1 morning-line favorite in Thursday's Astoria S., was scratched by the stewards. Ward said he took Long Neck Paula to Burke Equine Therapy to go in a cold water spa on Wednesday. Unbeknownst to Ward, there is a rule stating that permission must be granted by the stewards before a horse can be taken off the grounds for such treatment. “I didn't know, it's my own fault,” Ward said by phone. “The stewards gave me a warning, and believe me, I understand. If this is what you got to do, then is what you got to do. It's not a problem for me. I want to abide by the rules and there will be no issues moving forward.” Ward said he saw no rule about this on any overnights or in the condition book, but he was assured the rules was in place. Burke Equine Therapy is about six miles away from Saratoga Race Course. Ward took the 2-year-old filly there for cold water treatment, something he does with his horses in Kentucky as well. “After workouts, I take them to the spa, before workouts or races … you try to do all you can so they can feel good naturally,” Ward said. “Every one of my horses has been to a spa and I love it. We are in a no medication country, so anything you can do naturally to get them sound you do.” Long Neck Paula, owned by Will Stroud, broke her maiden in her first start by 3 1/2 lengths, which earned her 'TDN Rising Star' honors at Churchill Downs May. 2. “If I would have known there was a rule, I would certainly have called and asked,” Ward said. “I'm not arguing and I'm not mad. It was my bad. I will know moving forward. It's just a shame, because she was ready to run.” #13 Long Neck Paula wins on debut going gate-to-wire in R3 at Churchill Downs for trainer Wesley Ward with @ljlmvel in the saddle! #TwinSpiresReplay pic.twitter.com/0d5UMcGtJz — TwinSpires Racing (@TwinSpires) May 2, 2024 The post Ward Accepts Responsibility After Long Neck Paula Scratched From Astoria appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

In this continuing series, Alan Carasso takes a look ahead at US-bred and/or conceived runners entered for the upcoming weekend at the tracks on the Japan Racing Association circuit, with a focus on pedigree and/or performance in the sales ring. Here are the horses of interest for this weekend running at Hakodate, Kyoto and Tokyo Racecourses: Saturday, June 8, 2024 3rd-HAK, ¥10,480,000 ($67k), Maiden, 3yo, 1000m ARGENTINITA (JPN) (f, 3, Constitution–Way to Versailles, by Tizway) fetched just $16,000 at the 2016 OBS June Sale, then punched well above her weight under the care of Kevin Attard, winning the GII Royal North S. in 2018. Bought back on a bid of $575,000 when offered in foal to Quality Road at the 2019 Fasig-Tipton November Sale, the mare was hammered down to Emmanuel de Seroux's Narvick International for $300,000 with this filly in utero at the 2020 Keeneland November Sale. B-Pride Rock Ltd 3rd-KYO, ¥10,480,000 ($67k), Maiden, 3yo, 1800m MOD FLAME (JPN) (c, 3, Uncle Mo–Inflamed, by Unusual Heat) is out of an unplaced full-sister to GSW Burns who first sold to Glen Hill Farm for $170,000 in foal to Tapiture at Keeneland November in 2019, but the mare was the recipient of the best sort of pedigree update when her son Mo Forza (Uncle Mo) validated favoritism in the GI Hollywood Derby a matter of weeks later. Inflamed was returned to Keeneland for the 2020 January Sale and was knocked down to Shadai Farm for $525,000. B-Shadai Farm Sunday, June 9, 2024 5th-TOK, ¥13,720,000 ($88k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1800mT JASPER CROSS (c, 2, American Pharoah–Tepin Thru Life {Ire}, by Curlin), a $140,000 Keeneland November buyback turned $185,000 Keeneland September grad, gets his career underway just four days after his unraced dam's half-sister Grateful (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) opened her account at second asking at the Curragh for Coolmore and trainer Aidan O'Brien June 5. Second dam Tepin (Bernstein) needs no introduction. Trained by Mark Casse for Robert Masterson, Tepin won no fewer than a half-dozen times at the elite level, three of those against the boys, including a championship-clinching success in the 2015 Breeders' Cup Mile. Tepin's finest hour–at the races–occurred at Royal Ascot the following season where she defeated a talented bunch in the G1 Queen Anne S. before adding the GI Ricoh Woodbine Mile a few months later. Retired and bred to Curlin in 2017, Tepin was hammered down to M.V. Magnier for $8 million–second only to the $9.5 million for Songbird–at that year's Fasig-Tipton November Sale while carrying Tepin Thru Life. B-Orpendale/Chelston/Wynatt (KY) The post American Pharoah Grandson Of Tepin Debuts at Tokyo appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY — Given his choice, trainer Brendan Walsh would rather not see it wet on Saturday at Saratoga Race Course. That's because the big horse in his barn, Pretty Mischievous (Into Mischief) is scheduled to run in the GI Ogden Phipps S. on the GI Belmont S. undercard at Saratoga Race Course. “The less rain we get, the better,” Walsh said while sitting in his office at his barn at the Oklahoma Training Track. Owned by Godolphin LLC. Pretty Mischievous has seen off-tracks before and has run okay. She was third in the GI La Troienne S. at Churchill Downs in her 2024 debut; in her last start of 2023, she was second in the GI Cotillion S. at Parx. Pretty Mischievous also won on a sloppy track when she was a 2-year-old. “She'll go on it, but it's not her best surface,” Walsh said. When asked if he would definitely run Pretty Mischievous in the Phipps, Walsh did not commit. “I'm not sure,” he said. “It depends on how much rain we get.” In the La Troienne, Pretty Mischievous and jockey Tyler Gaffalione were beaten 5 1/4 lengths by Idiomatic (Curlin), who has steamrolled her way to six straight wins and won an Eclipse of her own last year for older dirt female. Idiomatic | Sarah Andrew Idiomatic, from the barn of Brad Cox, is the 3-5 morning-line favorite in the Phipps. Pretty Mischievous is the co-third choice–along with Randomized (Nyquist)–at 6-1. Walsh is looking forward to a rematch, hopefully on a fast track. “I liked the way she ran the last time,” he said. “She loomed up there like she was going to do something. Maybe it was a combination of the track and she got a little tired.” Pretty Mischievous has satisfied Walsh with her three works at Churchill Downs since the La Troienne. The filly arrived in Saratoga on Monday. “She seems like she is working as good as ever–it not better– going into this,” Walsh said. “She is the nicest filly in the world to train. She makes us all look good.” McPeek's 'Other' Horse Runs Friday In any other year, Thorpedo Anna (Fast Anna) would be getting all the attention at trainer Kenny McPeek's barn. Not this year. Thorpedo Anna is the best 3-year-old filly in the country and she gets to prove it again on Friday when she runs in the GI Acorn S. at Saratoga Race Course. Winner of four of five career starts by a combined 26 1/4 lengths, Thorpedo Anna is the 8-5 morning line favorite in the Acorn. She is being overshadowed because she lives in the same barn as Mystik Dan (Goldencents), the GI Kentucky Derby winner and runner-up in the GI Preakness S. Mystik Dan is running in Saturday's GI Belmont at the Spa. “It's weird,” McPeek said outside his barn. “Here you have a filly and there is no telling what she is worth, and she literally gets ignored. In any other year, I would be running her in the Belmont!” McPeek didn't care that Mystik Dan was made the 5-1 third choice behind 9-5 Sierra Leone (Gun Runner) and 7-2 Mindframe (Constitution) in the Belmont by New York Racing Association linemaker David Aragona. “I'm not a gambler so it doesn't really matter to me,” McPeek said. “In New York, they tend to bet on Chad [Brown, trainer of Sierra Leone] and Todd [Pletcher, trainer of Mindframe]. In Kentucky, they bet on me!” Repole Will Go It Alone … Sort Of Owner Mike Repole rolled into town on Thursday and will have two chances to take home the top prize in the GI Belmont S. on Saturday. His stable owns Mindframe (Constitution), the 7-2 second choice on the Belmont morning line. Mindframe (outside) and Protective (inside) | Sarah Andrew He also owns 20-1 Protective (Medaglia d'Oro) with his long-time partners, Vinnie and Teresa Viola (St. Elias Stable). However, the Violas aren't going to be able to make the Belmont. Vinnie Viola owns the Florida Panthers and they are playing Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals against Edmonton Saturday night in Miami. “He and Teresa will be sitting in a box cheering on their team,” Repole said by phone. “Hopefully, we can get the Belmont and they get the Stanley Cup.” Even though Viola won't be at the Spa, don't feel for Repole. He won't be lonely. He said he has 70 people in his Saturday entourage at Saratoga. History Is Made At The Spa Someday, trainer Mertkan Kantarmaci, jockey Dylan Davis and a 3-year-old gelding named Drunk on Sake (Yoshida {JPN}) will be the answer to a Saratoga trivia question. The answer: They combined to win the first race on Thursday as the four-day Belmont Festival at Saratoga got underway. It is the earliest race ever run in the storied history of Saratoga, which started racing Thoroughbreds in 1863. “I'm happy to make some history,” Davis, who was born and raised in Saratoga, said. “We're here a little earlier, but it's great to be here.” According to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, before Thursday, the earliest race ever run at Saratoga was July 11, 1882. Opening day of the 2024 summer meet at Saratoga is July 11. “This is the earliest start ever at Saratoga, so its special,” Kantarmaci said. “What can I say?” Drunk on Sake took the lead from the bell and won by 8 1/4 lengths in the 1 1/16-mile race on the inner turf. It was his first start on the grass after beating no one in his career debut on a muddy track at Aqueduct. Kantarmaci is hoping this will be the start of a successful Belmont Festival. He said he has six more horses that could start here. 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SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY-It sounds a little like a fairtale. A fire-breathing creature descending on several unsuspecting ladies in search for the prized acorn. In this story, however, the role of the fearsome creature is played by GI Kentucky Oaks heroine Thorpedo Anna (Fast Anna), who while not grotesque, gives eight other GI Acorn S. rivals cause for concern nonetheless. “The boys are lucky she is not running,” said trainer Kenny McPeek with a chuckle. “I mean she's good.” Named a TDN Rising Star after an emphatic win at Keeneland last October, she returned to win impressively at Churchill Downs Nov. 10 before finishing second in that oval's GII Golden Rod S. Nov. 25. That was the last time she would taste defeat. A four-length winner in her 2024 debut in the Mar. 30 Fantasy S., the filly easily dismantled her rivals on a sloppy first Friday in May. Since that victory, McPeek vacillated whether he wanted to run her back against her own gender in the Acorn or take on the colts in the GI Belmont S., which will be contested this year over 10 furlongs. However, cooler heads prevailed and in a desire to keep Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan (Goldencents)–also trained by McPeek–and Thorpedo Anna apart, the decision was made to give the nine-furlong Acorn a go. The filly has registered three works since her Oaks victory, including a four-furlong move in a bullet :46 1/5 at Churchill May 22 followed by an easy maintenance move of 1:02 4/5 for five panels over the Oklahoma training track June 1. And given the twinkle in his eye and the wide grin on his face, he knows he's locked and loaded. “As a matter of fact I think she's on the improve,” he said. “Those two wins were her only races all year. She was very impressive. But she hasn't even felt the whip. She's a beast.” Last season's champion juvenile filly Just F Y I (Justify) dominated her division in 2023, winning all three starts, including the GI Frizette S. and GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies. This term, she has yet to find the winner's circle having finished runner up in both the GI Ashland S. at Keeneland and the Oaks. The George Krikorian homebred has posted bullet works in her two latest outings, including a five-furlong move in 1:01 1/5 over the Oklahoma training track May 31. “I thought we went into the Kentucky Oaks as good as you can go into a race,” Bill Mott said Thursday. “We were second best on that day.” He continued, “It was on an off racetrack. I don't know if running on a fast race track can even things out a little bit. But I am equally happy with how she is coming into this race. I don't think I am any better or worse than I was going into the Kentucky Oaks. It seems she is doing much the same and her works have been good and she seems to be very good with herself.” One of three Grade I winners in this race, GI Ashland S. winner Leslie's Rose (Into Mischief) will try to rebound off a forgettable 13th in the Oaks. The $1.15 million Keeneland September purchase also earned TDN Rising Stardom in her sole start of 2023, a 9 1/4-length score at Aqueduct in November. “I think she absolutely hated the slop [in the Kentucky Oaks], and I had concerns about it because she had been training absolutely great every day we were [at Churchill], except the Tuesday before the Oaks when we had a sloppy track,” said trainer Todd Pletcher. “She was noticeably less aggressive and didn't seem to care for it. She never really had any experience on a sloppy track, so I was hoping maybe in a race scenario she could overcome it, but Irad [Ortiz Jr.] said she hated it the whole way.” “She's a filly that has always trained well and she ran great in her first two starts,” Pletcher said of her first two efforts, including a length win in a Gulfstream optional claimer in January. She subsequently finished third in the GII Davona Dale S. at Gulfstream in March. “She had a little bit of a tricky trip in the Davona Dale and then she got a great trip in the Ashland. I'm thinking if she can regain that form–and the way she's training, she acts like she's going to–she should be very competitive.” Coming off a confident victory in the GII Black-Eyed Susan S. on the Preakness Day undercard, Gun Song (Gun Runner) gets another crack at a distance that she has shown an affinity for. Prior to her sojourn to Baltimore, she finished fourth behind GII Gulfstream Park Oaks winner Power Squeeze (Union Rags), who subsequently finished sixth in the Kentucky Oaks. Grass Is the Word Friday's other graded action is highlighted by an additional three graded stakes, two at the Grade I level, and all on the turf. The Just a Game S. offers up seven runners, only two of them not trained by Chad Brown. Listed at 3-1 on the morning line, Gina Romantica (Into Mischief) and Coppice (GB) (Kingman {GB}) both stand to improve off a single prior start this season. The former, winner of last season's GI QEII Cup and GI First Lady S., finished seventh last time in Keeneland's GI Jenny Wiley S., while her stablemate was just a neck shy of another Brown runner, Chili Flag (Fr) (Cityscape {GB}), in the May 4 GII Distaff Turf Mile at Churchill Downs. Brown also saddles Jenny Wiley victress Beaute Chachee (Fr) (Literato {Fr}) and last out GIII Beaugay S. runner-up Whitebeam (GB) (Caravaggio). In the 1 3/16-mile GI New York S., Brown saddles Grade I winner McKulick (GB) (Frankel {GB}) and GSW Royalty Interest (Fr) (Le Havre {Ire}) but he'll have a much tougher time of it with several seasoned competitors facing his duo. Godolphin is represented by G2 Balanchine S. winner English Rose (Ire) (Frankel {GB}), who was runner-up as the favorite in the aforementioned Jenny Wiley. Charlie Appleby trains the homebred while William Buick comes in for the mount. Chris Connett, Appleby's assistant and head traveling lad, said, “She's a versatile filly who can go a mile or stretch out. The race down at Keeneland, she was a little bit keen, but I think that's down to being at a new place, new track and new style of racing. Hopefully, now she is settled into the American ways and we'll see her relaxing into the race and really be able to finish.” Also likely to garner support, George Krikorian's 7-year-old War Like Goddess (English Channel) makes her seasonal debut for trainer Bill Mott. Last season's winner of the GI Turf Classic over the soggy turf at Aqueduct in October, she concluded the year with a seventh, beaten 4 1/4 lengths, by August Rodin (Ire) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) in the GI Breeders' Cup Turf at Santa Anita. “We had a little mishap in Kentucky, she was supposed to run the end of April at Keeneland, and she wound up kicking herself above the hock and had a laceration on the inside of her leg that was causing her some grief so we had to scratch,” he explained. “But since then, she's been fine and training well. We are probably up against it a little bit at 9 1/2 furlongs since she'd probably prefer to go 11 or 12 furlongs. If there is some cut in the ground and a hot pace, that might play into her running style. Maybe it'll even things out and she can compete.” Also explaining the decision to run her at a distance that might not be ideal for War Like Goddess, he said, “There aren't many other races that we would be interested in running in at this time of the year and she's ready to go. I figured we should just go ahead and run.” When asked about her longevity, he explained, “With the older horses, there is no pressure to run. It's not like the Kentucky Derby when you only have one chance to run. Bobby Frankel once told me 'there is only one race that comes around once and that's the Derby.' The others you can rotate and come back the next year. So we have the luxury of running when we're ready.” Also lining up are dual Grade I winner Fev Rover (Ire) (Gutaifan {Ire}), also making her 2024 debut, in addition to last year's GI Belmont Oaks scorer Aspen Grove (Ire) (Justify), last seen finishing a closing third in the GIII Modesty S. at Churchill May 3. “Her wins in the GI Beverly D. and GI E. P. Taylor were big races,” said Mark Casse of Fev Rover. “Her race at Saratoga in the GI Diana [third, last July], she just got a little unlucky. I was disappointed with her effort in the Breeders' Cup [11th in the Filly & Mare Turf at Santa Anita], she just didn't show up. I don't know why; she had trained really well into it. She's training very well. She loves to train on the [Woodbine Racetrack] synthetic.” Rounding out Friday's graded action is the GII Intercontinental S., led by 6-5 morning line favorite Roses for Debra (Liam's Map). The 5-year-old was last seen taking the GIII Giant's Causeway S. at Keeneland Apr. 13. The post The Acorn and The Beast appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Tutta La Vita will not line up in the June 8 Queensland Oaks and will not race again in Australia. However, the 3-year-old has not been retired and is set to continue her career in the United States where the Breeders' Cup meeting will be a target.View the full article

A film pilot on Flat racing in France will begin shooting on June 16, G1 Prix de Diane Day, Jour de Galop reported on Thursday. Produced by Quad Lab, the project will be aimed at convincing Netflix, or another major platform to produce a documentary series on racing to boost exposure of the sport to a larger audience. The series would focus exclusively on the French racing scene. Quad Lab, under the direction of Yann Le Bourbouach, already has a Netflix series to its credit: the cycling documentary series “Tour de France: Au Coeur du Peloton”. This model for sports documentaries focusing on intersecting stories which emphasise the adrenaline of competition was set by “Formula One, Drive to Survive”, whose producers joined Quad Productions. Both series have given greater exposure to their respective sports, which has drawn a strong audiences, and also a younger demographic. The post French Racing Documentary Pilot To Begin Shooting On Prix Diane Day appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

'TDN Rising Star' Almostgone Rocket (f, 3, Into Mischief–Bound, by Jump Start) ran her perfect record to three-for-three Thursday with a commanding win in the Jersey Girl S. The 1-2 favorite had to deal with the speedy Gray Lightning (Social Inclusion) up the backstretch but moved up alongside that leader around the far turn and came home well in control to win over another 'Rising Star' in Manama Gold (Star Guitar) who was making her North American debut. Lifetime Record: 3-3-0-0. O-Frank Fletcher Racing Operations, Inc. and Ten Strike Racing; B-Malibu Farm, LLC; T-Brad H. Cox. Sales History: $250,000 ylg '22 KEESEP. #5 Almostgone Rocket lives up to his name and stays perfect in R4 at the #Belatoga meet for trainer @bradcoxracing with Flavien Prat aboard! #TwinSpiresReplay pic.twitter.com/HnlPq2Zxjj — TwinSpires Racing (@TwinSpires) June 6, 2024 The post ‘Rising Star’ Almostgone Rocket Stays Perfect In Jersey Girl appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Morning-line favorite Roses for Debra has won five of her last seven races since being transferred to trainer Christophe Clement in the spring of 2023. View the full article

With Fierceness slow to recover from an off-the-board finish in the Kentucky Derby (G1), Mindframe has been handed the baton to represent Repole and Co. in the June 8 extravaganza of the $2 million Belmont Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course.View the full article

Popular race mare Tepin produced her first winner when her daughter Grateful stormed down the stretch to break her maiden June 5 at the Curragh.View the full article

Hall of Fame jockey Julie Krone will be the subject of a new documentary produced by Sports Illustrated Studios, a division of Authentic Studios, and Spyglass Media Group, that organization said in a press release on Friday. The documentary, which will highlight Krone's racing accolades, will be helmed by Larissa Bills, director/producer of Apple TV+'s The Super Models. “Not only is Julie one of the greatest jockeys in horse racing, she also shattered expectations and broke down barriers for all women in Thoroughbred racing,” said Gary Barber, Chairman & CEO, Spyglass. “We are lucky to have Larissa at the helm, as a passionate horse enthusiast herself, to illuminate Julie's story for the world.” Details concerning production time and a release date are forthcoming. The post Julie Krone Documentary Planned by SI Studios And Spyglass appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

The late Galileo (Ire)'s Huxley (Ire) topped the Tattersalls Online June Sale when selling to Dare To Dream Racing for 52,000gns on Thursday. Consigned by Bawnmore Racing, the placed 3-year-old colt (lot 80) is a half-brother to Group 1 winner and young sire Cloth Of Stars (Ire), while their dam, Strawberry Fledge (Kingmambo,) is a full to G1 Oaks winner Light Shift, herself the dam of Group 1 winner and Group 1 sire Ulysses (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}). Will Smith of Dare To Dream Racing said, “We've been wanting to get a nice horse for the syndicate to take us to some top tracks, and we think he'll provide us with some great opportunities over the summer. He'll be going to Michael Attwater in Epsom and that's one of the tracks that should suit him perfectly. His form at Dundalk seems pretty tidy so we'd like a crack at some of the better all-weather races as well.” Second on the buyers' sheet was another Galileo, lot 58, the 3-year-old filly World Vision (Ire), who sold to the Wind Chimes Partnership for 49,000gns. Lot 58 was consigned by Baroda Stud. The unraced chestnut is a daughter of G3 Prix de Lieurey winner Wind Chimes (GB) (Mastercraftsman {Ire}), who was second in the G1 Prix du Moulin and third in the G1 Poule d'Essai des Pouliches. The third priciest horse of the day was Mono River (Fr) (Zarak {Fr}) (lot 94), who caught the eye of Mohammed Hamad Khalifa Al Attiyah at 39,000gns. Consigned by Somerville Lodge, the 3-year-old gelding has been placed three times. Leading the breeze-up portion of the sale, which was added in 2023, was a daughter of Coulsty (Ire) (lot 14) from the Beresford Stables draft. A half-sister to four winners, she was picked up for 27,000gns by Jack Cantillon. This is the family of Group 1 winner Ransom O'War (Red Ransom). The filly posted the fastest timed breeze over a quarter-mile at Dundalk. Beresford Stables' Shane Ryan said, “I couldn't be any happier, she's after getting a good home. I've loved the filly from the start and struggled to get her into sales but always knew I had a bit of quality with her. Thank god that Tattersalls put on the Online Sale and gave me a position. It couldn't have been a better sale for everyone to sell their horses.” At the close of trade, 71 lots sold (59%) of 119 offered for an aggregate of 677,100gns. The average was 9,537gns and the median was 4,200gns. Tattersalls Online also made the breeze-up times publicly available, a first for breeze-up sales conducted in Europe. The post Galileo’s Huxley Tops The Tattersalls Online June Sale appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

The wagering public had their money on a son of Nyquist to win the Tremont S. on Thursday but it was the “other Nyquist”, longshot STUDLYDORIGHT (c, 2, Nyquist–Peach of a Gal, by Curlin) who drove by late to upset 4-5 favorite Touchy (Nyquist). Outrun in the opening furlongs as Touchy and Three Echos (Echo Town) blitzed an opening quarter in :22.11, Studlydoright led the second pack from fifth and was able to capitalize late, driving past that leading pair inside the sixteenth pole to win going away. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0. O-David R. Hughes; B-Glenangus Farm LLC; T-John J. Robb. Sales History: $185,000 RNA ylg '23 FTSAUS, $110,000 ylg '23 EASOCT. The post Nyquist’s Studlydoright Upsets Touchy In Tremont appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article