Noted: July 7
– “Trainer Juan Serey, once the terror of the claiming game in New York and New Jersey racing, roared back to action yesterday when he saddled three horses at Monmouth Park after more than three years in the wilderness” (New York Post).
– A solid group of 93 has been nominated to the Claiming Crown. The event will take place at Canterbury Park on July 16. Runaway Russy, last seen barely keeping up with Funny Cide in the Suburban, and Lord of the Game, recent winner of the Cornhusker, are among the 11 named to the day’s big race, the $150,000 Jewel (Blood-Horse).
– Prairie Meadows has fined Corey Nakatani $300 for not riding Cee’s Irish to the wire in the Iowa Oaks last week. “It didn’t affect the outcome of the race, but the stewards said that it presented a poor image” (Des Moines Register).
– Ryan Fogelsonger makes his MTV debut tonight in “True Life: I Want a Perfect Body II.” A camera crew from the show followed the jockey for six months as he worked to add eight pounds of muscle to his 104-pound frame (Laurel).
