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Breaking from the rail, favored Illuminant showed good tactical speed and took command turning for home to take Thursday’s $60,000 Santa Anita allowance feature by 4 ½ lengths under Flavien Prat while negotiating one mile on turf in 1:35.36.
Owned by Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and trained by Michael McCarthy, Illuminant switched back to the turf following a dull fourth place finish on the main track in the Grade II, 1 1/16 miles La Canada Stakes here on Jan. 16 and appears headed back to graded stakes competition.
“I’ll go ahead and enjoy this for a minute, but in the next 30 to 60 days, she could pop up somewhere in the Midwest, but I’m not sure where,” said McCarthy, a former longtime assistant to Todd Pletcher. “That’s up to everybody at Eclipse. We’ll sit down and talk about it.”
Heavily favored at 6-5 in a field of nine older fillies and mares, the 4-year-old Pennsylvania-bred daughter of Quality Road paid $4.40, $3.60 and $2.80. With the winner’s share of $36,000, she increased her earnings to $152,650. She now has three wins, all on turf, from nine overall starts.
Ridden by Gary Stevens, Journey On rallied from fourth to take the place at 5-1 and paid $5.40 and $4.20.
Pacesetter Little Bit Lovely tired late, finishing a half length back in third. Ridden by Joe Talamo, she was off at 21-1 and paid $9.00 to show.
Fractions on the race were 23.34, 46.75, 1:11.59 and 1:23.47.
First post time for an eight-race card on Friday at Santa Anita is at 1 p.m. Admission gates open at 11 a.m.
Hey IdaBet players, with no clear cut standout, Uruguayan-bred mare Gaga A looms the horse to beat in Sunday’s Grade II, $200,000 San Luis Rey Stakes at Santa Anita. With a field of 12 older horses, including 4-year-old filly, Havanna Belle engaged to contest a mile and one half on turf, the San Luis Rey will be run for the 65th time.
GAGA A: Bred in Uruguay, this venerable 7-year-old mare comes off her best stateside effort, a close second in the Grade II, 1 ¼ miles San Marcos Stakes versus males. Trained by Neil Drysdale, she rallied from off the pace and fought back gamely late, only to be beaten three quarters of a length by deep closer Flamboyant. Owned by her breeder, Haras Phillipson, Gaga A will be making her fifth start for Drysdale on Sunday. With a win from two starts at 1 ½ miles on turf, Gaga A has five wins from 32 overall tries.
GOING SOMEWHERE: Brazilian-bred, this 7-year-old horse will be reunited with Mike Smith, who rode him to a close second two starts back in the Grade III, 1 ¾ miles San Juan Capistrano Stakes on June 28, 2015. Well beaten in the Grade III, 1 ½ miles turf John B. Connally Stakes at Sam Houston Park Jan. 30, Going Somewhere, who is also conditioned by Drysdale, should improve by many lengths with a recent race under his belt. Also owned and bred by Haras Phillipson, Inc., Going Somewhere is 9-2-1-2 at a mile and a half on turf and has three wins from 24 overall starts. He’ll be making his fourth stateside start on Sunday.
BIG JOHN B: Yet another 7-year-old, this Florida-bred gelding by Hard Spun comes off a third place finish in the Grade III John B. Connally Stakes. A dedicated deep closer, “Big John,” who will be making his 39th career start, has a win, a second and a third from five tries at a mile and a half on turf. With two wins from six starts over...
For our IdaBet player’s viewing pleasure, we are happy to announce that Golden Gate Fields on March 17 will begin to broadcast its races using high-definition cameras and video, The Stronach Group has announced.
The new HD Golden Gate signal also will feature three new cameras: one on the starting gate, a camera near the walking ring to enhance paddock coverage and a scenic camera. The track will implement a new HD graphics package, similar in format to the one currently in use at Santa Anita, but with a style unique to Golden Gate. More cameras will be added in the future.
On-track patrons will be able to watch Golden Gate’s races on 500 new HD televisions that have been installed on the Turf Club tables, in the Top of the Stretch betting carrels and throughout the Golden Gate facility.
“Taking the Golden Gate broadcast signal HD is another example of The Stronach Group’s continuing commitment to long-term racing in California,” said Joe Morris, Senior Vice President of West Coast Operations. “Golden Gate, with its scenic location and near year-round racing, is made to be seen in HD and we are excited to make this investment in the bayside track’s future.”
The HD Golden Gate Fields signal will be contractually produced by the track’s longtime vendor, Pegasus Communications, which also produces the HD signal for Santa Anita Park. Pegasus and Santa Anita were honored as 2015’s Outstanding Simulcast at the International Simulcast Conference.
Live racing at Golden Gate Fields, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, generally is conducted four days a week on a Thursday-Sunday schedule. Closing day for the Winter/Spring Meet is June 12.
Amateur driver Dein Spriggs is looking forward to this weekend’s Isle International Amateur competition at Pompano Park this weekend.
“This competition will be highly competitive–yet friendly–with eyes throughout the world on our sport in this highly anticipated event.”
Indeed.
The seven race competition–four races on Saturday and three on Sunday–will feature the best amateur drivers from nine European countries, New Zealand and the United States with charities throughout the world the beneficiaries from the generosity of The Florida Amateur Driving Club and further contributions of driver’s fees earned from the event.
Spriggs, whose “full time” profession is in real estate investment, has been a harness racing participant and has driven well over 400 winners.
The Florida Amateur Driving Club has donated over $150,000 to worthwhile charitable causes since its inception.
A few of the charities to benefit from this competition are New Zealand’s Kidz Kartz North Island, Norway’s Children’s Cancer Association and Russia’s The Red Cross, as well as Germany’s SOS Kinderdorfer and Austria’s Kinderhilfe, among others.
Pompano Park’s Director of Racing, Brett Revington echoed Spriggs’ comments by saying, “We are so pleased to host this event as it will put our sport in the limelight worldwide.
“These are trying times for racing and it’s great to reach out beyond our borders to show the beauty and generosity of our sport and its participants.”
The draw for the seven International seven races event was held Wednesday with Finland’s Tapio Hoikka and Germany’s Michael Holmer officiating at the draw.
The first of four Saturday events has a field of seven and track morning line maker John Berry has made Mr Wizard, to be driven by Jaime Bassa, the 5 to 2 morning line...
Amateur driver Dein Spriggs is looking forward to this weekend’s Isle International Amateur competition at Pompano Park this weekend.
“This competition will be highly competitive–yet friendly–with eyes throughout the world on our sport in this highly anticipated event.”
Indeed.
The seven race competition–four races on Saturday and three on Sunday–will feature the best amateur drivers from nine European countries, New Zealand and the United States with charities throughout the world the beneficiaries from the generosity of The Florida Amateur Driving Club and further contributions of driver’s fees earned from the event.
Spriggs, whose “full time” profession is in real estate investment, has been a harness racing participant for some four decades and has driven well over 400 winners.
The Florida Amateur Driving Club has donated over $150,000 to worthwhile charitable causes since its inception.
A few of the charities to benefit from this competition are New Zealand’s Kidz Kartz North Island, Norway’s Children’s Cancer Association and Russia’s The Red Cross, as well as Germany’s SOS Kinderdorfer and Austria’s Kinderhilfe, among others.
Pompano Park’s Director of Racing, Brett Revington echoed Spriggs’ comments by saying, “We are so pleased to host this event as it will put our sport in the limelight worldwide.
“It’s great to reach out beyond our borders and showcase the world’s top amateur drivers.”
The draw for the seven International seven races event was held Wednesday with Finland’s Tapio Hoikka and Denmark’s Michael Holmer officiating at the draw.
The first of four Saturday events has a field of seven and track morning line maker John Berry has made Mr Wizard, to be driven by Jaime Bassa, the 5 to 2 morning line favorite.
Said Berry,...
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