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By GREG MELIKOV
Hialeah Park, 84 years after its debut in the Roaring ’20s, is back from the dead and on track to hold the first of two meetings 48 hours after Thanksgiving.
It has been eight years since the last thoroughbred race was staged at the historic South Florida landmark. At one time Hialeah was known as “the most beautiful racetrack in the world” because of its grand architecture, fountains and statues besides exotic scenery and a magnificent turf course.
While the facility is a shell of itself today, scores of construction workers are laboring…
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The Breeders’ Cup and Churchill Downs revealed the official event logo for the 2010 Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Churchill Downs on November 5-6, 2010. Breeders’ Cup 2010 will mark a record seventh time that Churchill Downs will host the event.
The 2009 Breeders’ Cup World Championships will be held at the Oak Tree Racing Meet at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif. and consists of 14 Breeders’ Cup races and $25.5 million in purses on Friday, November 6 and Saturday, November 7.
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A downturn in horse wagering as a result of the sluggish economy is forcing Santa Anita Park to slash its overnight purses by 10% at the Oak Tree meeting to take effect Saturday.
Santa Anita Track officials said Wednesday that through the first 16 days of horse racing, Oak Tree’s overall pari-mutuel wagering was down 12% compared to last year.
The meeting began September 30 and runs through November 8, including the Breeders’ Cup 2009 World Championships on November 6-7, the two richest days in thoroughbred horse racing.
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By GREG MELIKOV
Five new honorees will be inducted into the Texas Horse Racing Hall of Fame on Saturday at Retama Park.
The new members are racing legends Harold V. Goodman and Jeff Carr, plus three horses. In addition, former Texas Sen. O. H. “Ike” Carr of Dallas will receive the JoAnn Weber Distinguished Service Award.
Goodman, a prominent horse owner and breeder, was 1994 Texas Breeder of the Year. His Two Altazano, one of the few Texas-bred fillies to win a Grade 1, captured four graded thoroughbred stakes 15 years ago.
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Churchill Downs will install permanent lights at the home of the Kentucky Derby in time for the 2010 Spring Meet.
Spokesman Kevin Flanery said the overwhelming success of night horse racing at the track last summer led to the decision. The track averaged more than 29,000 fans during three special night racing events in June and July.
There are no plans to move post time for the 2010 Kentucky Derby, scheduled for May 1.
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A field of 12 headed by Colonel John and Einstein will race in the $1-million Pacific Classic Stakes at Del Mar on Sunday, September 6.
As part of the Breeders’ Cup Challenge, the Pacific Classic winner will earn a berth in the Breeders’ Cup Classic on November 7 at Santa Anita Park.
Raced at 1 1/4 miles, Del Mar’s Pacific Classic field of race horses with jockeys and weight:
- Informed ridden by jockey Tyler Baze carries 124 lbs.
- Song of Navarone ridden by jockey Joel Rosario, 124 lbs.
- Rail Trip ridden by jockey Jose Valdivia Jr., 124 lbs.
- Richard’s Kid ridden by jockey Mike Smith, 124 lbs.
- Mast Track ridden by jockey David Flores, 124 lbs.
- Colonel John ridden by jockey Garrett Gomez, 124 lbs.
- Misremembered ridden by jockey Victor Espinoza, 118 lbs.
- Global Hunter (ARG) ridden by jockey Corey Nakatani, 124 lbs.
- Tres Borrachos ridden by jockey Joseph Talamo, 124 lbs.
- Einstein (BRZ) ridden by jockey Julien Leparoux, 124 lbs.
- Parading ridden by jockey Rafael Bejarano, 124 lbs.
- Awesome Gem ridden by jockey Alex Solis, 124 lbs.
The Pacific Classic Stakes is the 9th race in Del Mar’s September 6 horse racing program. Pacific Classic post time is 5:00 pm.
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Jockey Tyler Baze is expected to be sidelined for a week after breaking his finger when he was unseated by his mount at Del Mar, where he is the second-leading rider.
Tyler Baze is wearing a cast on his broken left pinky finger. His mount unseated him Saturday, then ran off and was scratched from the day’s final race.
His agent says jockey Tyler Baze will have to give up mounts on Monterey Jazz in the $300,000 Del Mar Mile on August 29 and the $250,000 Del Mar Handicap, a Breeders’ Cup 2009 Challenge race on August 30.
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Online horse betting sites, TVG and Betfair Ltd., are offering to add $400,000 to the purse of the Beldame Stakes, hoping to entice the Preakness winner filly Rachel Alexandra and Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic winner Zenyatta into running against each other at Belmont Park, home of the Belmont Stakes.
The pledge would create a $1 million purse for the October 3 Beldame Stakes if the 2 female stars are in the starting gate.
Filly Rachel Alexandra’s principal owner, Jess Jackson, has ruled out running in the Breeders’ Cup because he isn’t fond of the synthetic surface at Santa Anita. The connections of Zenyatta have said the Breeders’ Cup 2009 is where a matchup of horse racing’s current glamor girls should be decided.
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Two days after a minor surgery to repair an entrapped epiglottis, the Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird appeared healthy and happy in his stall at the Saratoga stakes barn and on target for a run next Saturday in the 2009 Travers Stakes August 29.
“We’ll scope him first thing in the morning (6:30 a.m. Friday) and if he’s good we’ll go to the racetrack (at 7:15 a.m.) and jog him a couple rounds,” said race horse trainer Chip Woolley, noting that the gelded son of Birdstone Mine That Bird will only have missed 2 days of training for the Travers if he gets back out on the track Friday.
“The big thing is laying him down, getting him up; the surgery is minimally invasive, no big deal, but the big worry is infection,” race horse trainer Chip Woolley said.
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The Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird returned to Saratoga Race Course to prepare for the $1-million Travers Stakes 2009 after having throat surgery to free an entrapped epiglottis.
Race horse trainer Chip Woolley said the routine procedure, performed Tuesday morning by Dr. Patricia Hogan at the Ruffian Equine Medical Center across from Belmont Park, went perfectly. He said the 3-year-old gelding will resume training in a couple of days.
The condition, which can interfere with breathing, was discovered during a routine endoscopic examination following a workout at Saratoga Monday. The Travers is on August 29.
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