'CAP MAY BE SISTERS' SHOWDOWN.Byline: Kevin Modesti Daily News Staff Writer Serena's Song has an Eclipse Award and $2.1 million in her column, but Exotic Wood will have fitness, distance, weight and post position to recommend her Saturday in the most anticipated showdown of the young Santa Anita season. Exotic Wood, unbeaten in five sprints, drew post 5 in a field of seven fillies and mares and that might give her a clearer path early in the 7-furlong Santa Monica Handicap The Santa Monica Handicap is a race for thoroughbred race horses run at a distance of seven furlongs on the dirt at Santa Anita Park. The Grade I race is open to fillies and mares age, three and up, and offers a purse of $250,000. . She was assigned 118 pounds. Chris McCarron will ride. Serena's Song, who hasn't raced since finishing fourth in the Oct. 28 Breeders' Cup Distaff The Breeders' Cup Distaff is a Weight for Age Thoroughbred horse race for fillies and mares, 3 years old and up. It is held annually at a different racetrack in the United States or Canada as part of the Breeders' Cup. It is sponsored by the airline Emirates. , drew post 1. She will carry 123 and Gary Stevens. Both are 4-year-old fillies sired by Rahy. Also in the $150,000 race: Morepheme, That'll Be Fine, Ballerina Gal, Klassy Kim and Top Rung. Nakatani watch: The stewards' ruling on the Corey Nakatani misuse-of-whip charges is scheduled to be announced To be announced (TBA) A contract for the purchase or sale of an MBS to be delivered at an agreed-upon future date but does not include a specified pool number and number of pools or precise amount to be delivered. this morning. Meanwhile, California Horse Racing Board investigators expect to receive results today from a post-mortem examination of Tillie's Joy, the colt who broke down shortly after Nakatani whipped him. Mike Kilpack, a CHRB CHRB California Horse Racing Board CHRB Community Housing Resource Board (Montana) CHRB Commonwealth Health Research Board investigator for six years, said he has never known a post-mortem exam to result in charges against a trainer, owner or jockey. Bonus time: The fate of a purse bonus linking the March 2 Santa Anita Handicap The Santa Anita Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually in the late winter at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. It is a Grade I race for horses three years old and up, and is considered the most important race for older horses in North America during with the Hollywood Gold Cup The Hollywood Gold Cup is a Grade I stakes race for thoroughbred horses inaugurated in 1938 at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California. It was run as a handicap race until 1997 when it was switched to weight-for-age conditions. and Pacific Classic should be known within days. "It's fish-or-cut-bait time," Santa Anita president Cliff Goodrich said. Insuring the bonus, now expected to be $1.8 million, has become an obstacle. If the bonus falls through, so too could Horse of the Year Cigar's appearance in the Big 'Cap. Trainer Bill Mott was quoted saying the Gulfstream Park Handicap The Gulfstream Park Handicap is a race for thoroughbred horses run at Gulfstream Park each year. The race is open to horses age four and up, willing to race one and three-sixteenths miles on the dirt. A Grade II event, it offers a purse of $350,000. - the same day but worth $500,000 less - was being considered. Notes: Softshoe Sure Shot was retired and will become a jumping horse, said Karen Headley, his adoring exercise rider. The gelding became the fourth 9-year-old to win a Santa Anita stake when he beat Bertrando and Cardmania in the 1995 San Carlos. . . . Phone Chatter, the 1993 2-year-old filly champ, flew to Kentucky Wednesday to be bred to Gone West. |
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