This is the final week for the ranking of the top 10 eligibles for the Little Brown Jug presented by Fazoli’s.
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The richest race of the 68-dayCanterbury Park season, the $200,000Mystic Lake Derby, features a field of 12 3-year-olds Sept. 13 including 4-1 morning line favorite Long On Value, trained by Bill Mott. 
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dozen 2-year-old fillies have a chance to stamp their ticket for the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (gr. IT) when they square off in the $200,000 Natalma Stakes (Can-IIT) on the Woodbine lawn Sept. 13.
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Kentucky Downs features another stakes-packed program Saturday, highlighted by the Grade 3, $600,000 Kentucky Turf Cup. The 1 ½-mile affair has attracted a well-matched field of 11, including Grade 2 hero War Dancer; Tricky Hat and Holiday Star, the one-two finishers in the John's Call at Saratoga; and 2013 runner-up Olympic Thunder. The turf-only Franklin, Kentucky track will also offer the $200,000 More Than Ready Mile, $200,000 Kentucky Downs Ladies Turf and $200,000 Kentucky Downs Ladies Sprint. The Turf Cup received a $200,000 purse increase this year and War Dancer is a likely favorite following his fourth-place effort in the August 17 Sword Dancer Invitational at Saratoga. The four-year-old War Front colt finished 2 ¼ lengths behind Main Sequence, who has strung together Grade 1 victories in his last two starts, and War Dancer has run well in all four turf stakes attempts this season, recording a second in the Elkhorn at Keeneland; a victory in the Louisville H. at Churchill Downs; and a close third in the Arlington H. prior to the Sword Dancer.
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Following in the footsteps of Zagora andAlterite comes Xcellence, as owner Martin Schwartz seeks to win the $500,000 Sands Point Stakes (gr. IIT) Sept. 13 for 3-year-old fillies with a European import entrusted to trainer Chad Brown. Nine are entered in the 1 1/8-mile inner turf test, with one additional filly, Aqua Regia, entered for the main track only. It is the eighth race on Saturday's Belmont card with a 4:45 p.m. EDT tentative post, immediately following t
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Kindergarten Series, The Red Mile, Lexington, Ky.; W.N. Reynolds Memorial, Tioga Downs, Nichols, N.Y; Canadian Trotting Classic, Elegantimage, William Wellwood Memorial final, Peaceful Way final and Milton Stake eliminations, Mohawk Racetrack, Campbellville, Ontario; and Bobby Quillen Memorial final, Harrington Raceway, Harrington, Del.
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The York County Fair, in the southcentral county of Pennsylvania which once was home to the Capital City of the United States of the same name, didn’t host any Presidents during its two days of harness racing on Monday and Tuesday. But as the third-to-last stop of the local fair circuit this year, it did crown two more divisional point standings champions, bringing the year’s total to three -- the first, of course, being the Princess of all North American freshmen. Tropical Terror ran her remarkable record to 15-14-1-0 on Monday, “2-year-old day,” by capturing the faster of the two Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes divisions in 2:02.1. The campaigners of the Western Terror filly, Team Shaw -- driver Chris; Chris’s brother, trainer Jason; and Jason’s son, owner Mason -- may have enjoyed this one a little more, because their filly defeated her one conqueror, second-place finisher Keystone I Wish, although to the credit of the place horse she narrowed the other’s advantage from 11 lengths at the quarter to 2-1/2 at the wire. Tropical Terror, the winningest freshman in all of North America, had clinched her divisional title, and the blanket in the stable’s colors presented at the fair banquet associated with the USTA District meeting (the Shaws’ will be their blue and white), three stops ago at Wattsburg.
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Loosen Up Stables' Unreachable Star, the all-time money-winning Indiana-bred racehorse with $784,595 in earnings, has been retired at age 10 because of a soft tissue injury in his left front leg. The popular gelding by Unloosened out of the Stars n' Stripes mare Starsovertheriver began his career in March 2007 at Turfway Park and broke his maiden in his fourth start that year at Indiana Grand Race Course. Thereafter he won seven stakes, finished second in seven stakes, and third in five stakes, all of them for Indiana-bred runners. Unreachable Star, trained by Tim Glyshaw his entire career, was voted 2009 Indiana horse of the year for winning five of 10 starts, two of them stakes, and from 2009-12 was named Indiana-sired older horse of the year. He won the William Henry Harrison Stakes at Indiana Grand three times.
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North State Street Stable's Monochromatic ($4.20, Jim Morand) registered her 52nd career win Tuesday in the $17,000 Mares Open at Harrington Raceway in 1:52.3. The venerable Monochromatic, who has been a top mare on the Delaware circuit for several years, assumed command early and never relented in her one length score over Springforth and Embassy Seelster. The 9-year-old Dream Away mare, Monochromatic, boosted her lifetime bankroll to nearly $840,000. Trained by Dylan Davis, Monochromatic was coming off a narrow loss on 9-2, suffered at the hands of a pocket sitting Springforth.
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Tuesday's (Sept. 9) edition of Racing Roundup features a results story from Harrington Raceway.
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The $682,000 Canadian Trotting Classic headlines an outstanding stakes filled card this Saturday evening at Mohawk Racetrack.Along with this year’s Trotting Classic, the $409,000 Elegantimage Stakes, the $390,000 William Wellwood Memorial and the $385,000 Peaceful Way Stakes are also carded for Saturday night. In total, over $2 million in purses are up for grabs on the 13-race card. The Canadian Trotting Classic is annually Canada’s richest race for trotters. Established in 1976, the ‘Trotting Classic’ has been won by some of harness racing’s greatest trotters, including Armbro Goal (’88), Yankee Paco (’00), Windsongs Legacy (’04), Donato Hanover (’07), Deweycheatumnhowe (’08) and Muscle Hill (’09). Leading the group of seven for this year’s ‘Trotting Classic’ is the Jimmy Takter trained duo of Father Patrick and Trixton. Father Patrick (PP6), last year’s Two-year-old Trotter of the Year on both sides of the border, has won 18 of his 21 career starts and is coming into the ‘Trotting Classic’ off victories in the $340,000 Zweig Memorial and the $260,000 Pennsylvania Sires Stakes Championship. A son of Cantab Hall – Gala Dream, Father Patrick, who will be driven by Yannick Gingras, won last year’s William Wellwood Memorial at Mohawk and is undefeated in three starts over the Campbellville oval.
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The current point leader in both the filly and colt standingsfor the Kindergarten series will be racing over the Kentucky clay at The Red Mile on Thursday night (Sept. 11) as seven divisions will be contested, each for a $10,000 purse. Forty fillies made for a nice even four divisions of ten and the colts line up as a nine and two tens in the Grand Circuit event. Lady Clarabella sits atop the filly roster with 100 points as a result of her two-for-two record in the series. She won her division of leg two at Tioga in 1:57.2 and rewarded her backers handsomely with a $45 mutuel payoff. She begins from post nine in the fourth race on Thursday at a generous 6-1 morning line. Andy McCarthy is aboard for Randy Beeckman who trains the Lear Jetta-Jet By filly for breeder Paul Kinnear and his partner Dreamland Farms. Another homebred filly with a promising future is Allerage Star (Angus Hall-Starry Eyed) who will open the series action as the 3-1 pick in race two. She’s won three of five this season, including a Kindergarten leg at The Meadowlands, Tompkins-Geers and most recently Reynolds Grand Circuit stakes for owner/breeder Jeff Gural’s Little E, LLC and partners Jason Settlemoir, Dave Stolz and Art Geiger. She’ll have the services of Scott Zeron in the sulky for conditioner Howie Okusko, Jr. on Thursday.
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With the retirement of Palace Malice, plenty of attention will be placed on this year’s 3-year-olds, starting with dual classic winner California Chrome and last year’s champion 2-year-old male Shared Belief, but there are still plenty of intriguing older horses pointing to, or at least possible, for the Breeders’ Cup Classic (gr. I).
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Wednesday's (Sept. 10) edition of Racing Roundup features results stories from Monticello Raceway, Harrington Raceway, The Meadows and Batavia Downs.
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When Aurelia's Belle held on to defeat a fast-closing Stellaris by a three-quarters of a length in the grade III Arlington Park Oaks on Polytrack July 19, many felt the result would be reversed if the pair clashed again. Now they'll get a chance to find out when the 3-year-old fillies meet in the $150,000Pucker Up Stakes (gr. IIIT) at nine furlongs on the grass at Arlington International Race Course Sept. 13. Following her defeat in the Arlington Park Oaks, Stellaris traveled to California where she again finished a fast-closing second in the Del Mar Oaks (gr. IT) in her grass debut. In six career starts, the Mike Stidham-trained daughter of Harlan's Holiday, to be ridden by James Graham, has finished in the money in all of them, with three of those races taken off the turf.
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Good luck trying to find a legitimate favorite in the 6 1/2-furlong Bold Venture Stakes (Can-III) at Woodbine Sept. 13. Unless the lightning-fast Black Hornetcan distance himself early from his 10 opponents, the $150,000 pot is up for grabs. Black Hornet, a son of Pioneering, is coming off an impressive score in the restricted Kenora Stakes at Woodbine Aug.27. He blazed through a quarter in :21.72 and a half in :43.75 before drawing off a 3 1/2-length victory in 1:08.79 over Bear No Joke, who will be chasing him again in the Bold Venture.
Of the 11 starters in the Bold Venture, seven of them finished out of the money in their last start, which will make it difficult for the bettors at Woodbine to find a horse who can outrun Black Hornet or even Bear No Joke, who at least has victories in last year’s Kennedy Road Stakes (Can-II) and Kenora Stakes.
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Following in the footsteps of Zagora and Alterite comes Xcellence, as owner Martin Schwartz seeks to win the $500,000 Sands Point Stakes Sept. 13 for 3-year-old fillies with a European import entrusted to trainer Chad Brown. Nine are entered in the 1 ⅛-mile inner turf test, with one additional filly, Aqua Regia, entered for the main track only. It is the eighth race on Saturday's Belmont card with a 4:45 p.m. EDT tentative post, immediately following the $200,000 Noble Damsel Stakes for fillies and mares.
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Lookslikeachpndale strutted winning form for the first time when he captured his elimination for Saturday’s C$390,000 William Wellwood Memorial for 2-year-old male trotters at Mohawk Racetrack and driver Sylvain Filion thinks the colt can show even more. Trained by Luc Blais, Lookslikeachpndale starts Saturday’s final from post two, one spot inside of last week’s other Wellwood elimination winner, Uncle Lasse. The Wellwood is part of a stakes-filled card that also features the C$682,000 Canadian Trotting Classic for 3-year-old trotters, C$409,000 Elegantimage for 3-year-old female trotters, and C$385,000 Peaceful Way for 2-year-old female trotters. Lookslikeachpndale has one win in five starts, but came into the Wellwood elims off two consecutive third-place finishes after twice finishing off the board.
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Vinery Stables' Regally Ready, blowout winner of a stakes on the dirt in his last start, is scheduled to return to his best surface Sept. 13 in the $200,000 More Than Ready Mile on the grass at Kentucky Downs. The More Than Ready is one of four stakes on the program, which is headed by the $600,000 Kentucky Turf Cup Stakes (gr. IIIT). The other two are each worth $200,000: the Kentucky Downs Ladies Sprint and Kentucky Downs Ladies Turf. Regally Ready, who captured the 2011 Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (gr. IT), won the off-the-turf West Virginia Speaker's Cup at one mile and 70 yards at Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack & Resort Aug. 2 for trainer Steve Asmussen and jockey Rosie Napravnik, who has a return call. The 7-year-old More Than Ready gelding has won four of seven starts this year, and of his 14 career wins, 11 have been on the turf.
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Trainer Roger Welch has two Orange & Blue Championships to his credit and nine overall Super Night crowns. The 50-year-old Beecher, Ill., resident is hoping that his trio of 2-year-old pacing colts will follow in the footsteps of his prior freshman colt winners Mini Me and Garfunkel. Welch will harness his three freshman pacers in the $187,000 Orange & Blue Final on Illinois’ Super Night (Saturday, Sept. 13), which features eight championship events for Illinois-breds of both gaits. Interestingly, all three of Welch’s protégé’s are by sire Sportsmaster and all are co-owned by the trainer, along with members of the De Long family of Wisconsin and Illinois.
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The 2014 Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots regular season for 2-year trotting fillies came to a close on Tuesday night (Sept. 9) at Mohawk Racetrack as the Campbellville oval played host to six $16,380 divisions. Sires Kadabra and Deweycheatumnhowe dominated the action with Kadabra picking up a trio of winners and Deweycheatumnhowe grabbing two credits. Magical Lass was the first winner for Kadabra as she took the opener in 1:59.1 for driver Paul MacDonell. She swept from third to first prior to the 1:30.1 three-quarters and then held sway through the lane to prevail by a half-length over public choice Mass Rail (Trevor Henry). Lmc Marshmellow (Jack Moiseyev) checked in third. Richard “Nifty” Norman trains Magical Lass, who is the first foal out of the Cantab Hall mare Priceless Lass, for co-owner/breeder Mel Hartman and co-owner R A W Equine Inc. Magical Lass broke her maiden in her fifth attempt, and she has now earned $10,861.
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Stevensville, who has chased the elite of his division for most of the year, reveled in their absence Tuesday (Sept. 9) at The Meadows when he captured the $40,000 Pennsylvania Stallion Series championship for 3-year-old colt and gelding pacers in a nifty 1:50.4. The Meadows also hosted the three other $40,000 finals for sophomores, with Broadway Socks (filly trotters), Lucy’s Pearl (filly pacers) and Frost Free Hanover (colt and gelding trotters) taking the other events. All four winners were odds-on favorites. While he hadn’t been embarrassed in such top events as the Adios, the Cane Pace and the Carl Milstein, Stevensville tended to be racing for minor awards against the division’s bearcats. In Tuesday’s championship, he was the marquee player and raced like it, making the front for Tim Tetrick after being looped from the gate and barreling to a three-length victory over Avalanche Hanover. Sean Liam Q earned show.
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Post positions have been drawn for the 25th edition of the New York Night of Champions, hosted by Yonkers Raceway Saturday night. The $1.8 million event, richest night of racing in the state, offers eight, $225,000 Sires Stakes finals for 2-and 3-year-olds of both sexes and gaits. Once again, each race is sponsored by a prominent Empire State breeding farm.
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Grade II winner War Dancer will try to secure the most lucrative victory of his career when the 4-year-old son of War Front faces an expected 10 rivals in the $600,000 Kentucky Cup Turf Stakes (gr. IIIT) Sept. 13 at Kentucky Downs. The 1 1/2-mile race on the rolling hills of the Franklin, Ky. turf course will be the richest stakes offered in North America on Saturday and will be part of a card featuring four stakes worth a total of $1.2 million. Diamond M Stable's War Dancer won last year's 1 1/4-mile Virginia Derby (gr. IIT) at Colonial Downs and this year has continued to fare well, while facing older horses and stretching out in distance. War Dancer followed a runner-up finish in this year's 1 1/2-mile Dixiana Elkhorn Stakes (gr. IIT) on the turf at Keeneland with a victory in the Louisville Handicap (gr. IIIT) at the same distance on the turf atChurchill Downs.
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Glenn Van Camp says there are similarities between 3-year-old gelding trotter Damfoolrmillionair and his award-winning half-brother San Pail. Whether the two will have similar careers still remains unknown, but Van Camp would be happy even if Damfoolrmillionair is only half as good. Damfoolrmillionair is among seven horses competing in Saturday's $682,000 Canadian Trotting Classic for 3-year-old trotters at Mohawk Racetrack. He will start from post seven with driver Randy Waples at the lines for trainer Brad Maxwell. The field also includes Hambletonian winner Trixton and newly crowned Pennsylvania Sires Stakes champion Father Patrick, both from the stable of trainer Jimmy Takter.
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