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Races/Results Archive

Summit Postponed

Calder’s Summit of Speed has been postponed to Sunday (Daily Racing Form). Heavy rain, high winds, and a power outage caused by Hurricane Dennis prompted the rescheduling.
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Speedy picks for the Summit of Speed: In the Carry Back Stakes, Lost in the Fog, followed by Hot Space. In the Princess Rooney, Sensibly Chic and Happy Ticket.

Posted in Races/Results on July 9, 2005

Hollywood Gold Cup, Swaps

An eye injury will keep Perfect Drift out of Saturday’s Hollywood Gold Cup (ESPN). “It’s a little ulcer on his eye,” said trainer Murray Johnson. “It has healed well, but I’m not sure that he would be 100 percent and did not want to put him under any stress. It’s just that this race is on the other side of the country.” That the race is on the other side of country isn’t keeping the well-traveled Limehouse away. “Hollywood Park will be the 10th track at which he has raced, and he has already won races at five different tracks” (Daily Racing Form). On the undercard, Northern Dancer winner Don’t Get Mad is the likely favorite in the Swaps (Blood-Horse). He’ll face competition from Indian Ocean, winner of the Affirmed.

Posted in Races/Results on July 7, 2005

Summit of Speed

Saturday is the Summit of Speed at Calder and Lost in the Fog headlines the day. The undefeated colt is entered in the Carry Back Stakes, where he’ll be reunited with regular jockey Russell Baze. The nation’s leading rider in wins, Baze has been out with a broken collarbone for a month, and it was Edgar Prado that rode Lost in the Fog to his seventh straight win in the Riva Ridge Stakes on June 11. Baze returned to the track yesterday, winning on his first mount back (Daily Racing Form). Lost in the Fog isn’t the only undefeated starter putting his record on the line Saturday. Happy Ticket, 9-for-9, is entered in the Princess Rooney Stakes, where she’ll meet Madcap Escapade and Sensibly Chic (Thoroughbred Times).

Posted in Races/Results on July 7, 2005

Cesario Wins Oaks

Cesario became the first Japanese-bred horse to win an American grade 1 stakes race when she beat 11 other fillies from three continents decisively in the American Oaks at Hollywood Park on Sunday. The filly’s four-length win had some members of her entourage in tears and her trainer Katsuhiko Sumii overjoyed: “I’ve had a dream about winning an American race, so this is the first step. I am very happy about this” (LA Times). Favorite Melhor Ainda finished second, with longshot Singhalese third.

Posted in Races/Results on July 4, 2005