ANTESPEED SCARING OFF RIVALS : 3-YEAR-OLD CALIFORNIA FILLY HAS WON SEVEN OF EIGHTS STARTS.Byline: Daily News Antespeed, the 3-year-old filly who has dominated her races in California, has moved east in search of stronger opposition - but is scaring off challengers there, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Daily Racing Form The Daily Racing Form, LLC (DRF) is a broadsheet newspaper founded in 1894 in Chicago, Illinois by Frank Brunell. The paper publishes the past performances of race horses as a statistical service for bettors on horse racing in the United States. . The filly, owned by Jack Kent Cooke Jack Kent Cooke (25 October, 1912 – 6 April, 1997) was a Canadian-American entrepreneur who became one of the most widely-known executives in North American professional sports. , who also owns the Daily News, has won seven of eight starts including the Santa Anita Oaks Santa Anita Oaks is an American Grade I Thoroughbred horse race held annually in mid March at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. Open to three-year-old fillies willing to race 8.5 furlongs (1 1/16 miles) on the dirt, it currently offers a purse of $300,000. and is entered in Friday's $250,000 Fantasy Stakes The Fantasy Stakes is a race for Thoroughbred horses raced at Oaklawn Park each year. The race is open to three-year-old fillies willing to race one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt. A Grade II race, the Fantasy offers a purse of $250,000. in Hot Springs, Ark. The Fantasy, a mile and a sixteenth stakes race for 3-year-old fillies, is the kickoff race of the annual Racing Festival of the South. The bad news, according to the Daily Racing Form, is that virtually nobody wants to run against Antespeed - who won three straight stakes victories on the dirt this year at Santa Anita after racing exclusively on the grass as a 2-year-old. The Ron McAnally-trained horse, which will be ridden Friday by Chris Antley, last raced in Santa Anita on Friday, where she ran seven furlongs in 1:25 3/5. No more than two or three fillies, the Racing Form reported, will be willing to give Antespeed a shot in Friday's Fantasy Stakes. Jetto, trained by David Vance and ridden by Larry Melancon, is described as her chief competitor with three wins in three starts. Among the horses bypassing the Fantasy, according to the Racing Form, are Cara Rafaela, another California horse, which has twice finished second to Antespeed. Cara Rafaela's trainer, D. Wayne Lukas Darrell Wayne Lukas (born September 2, 1935 in Antigo, Wisconsin) is a former educator who became one of the most successful horse trainers in American Thoroughbred horse racing history and a U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee. , has decided to take his horse instead to Keeneland for the upcoming Ashland stakes race. Derby dropouts: The Triple Crown hopes of Ide and Cobra King are over due to injuries. Ide has an injured right foreleg. Cobra King has an injured left foreleg. |
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