Headlines: Monday Action
– Ghostzapper worked six furlongs in 1:13.24 at Belmont Monday. The 2004 Horse of the Year will make his 2005 debut next Monday in the Metropolitan Handicap. (DRF)
– Trainer Tim Ritchey paid $210,000 for a Dixieland Band colt at the Fasig-Tipton Midatlantic sale on Monday. Ritchey bought the colt for Cash Is King, the stable that owns Afleet Alex and bought him at the same sale a year ago for $75,000 (TT) … The Cash Is King crew is on a roll. The day after winning the Preakness with Afleet Alex, the owners were back in the winner’s circle twice at Delaware with the fillys Racing Luck and Kelsey’s treasure. (BH)
– NYRA fired 59 mutuel clerks and suspended 30 others for participating in an “illegal job action,” according to senior vice president Bill Nader. New York mutuel clerks have been without a contract since 2003. (NYDN)
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