FUN IN SUN FOR CALIFORNIA, FLORIDA TRACKS.Byline: KEVIN MODESTI Horse Racing horse racing, trials of speed involving two or more horses. It includes races among harnessed horses with one of two particular gaits, among saddled Thoroughbreds (or, less frequently, quarterhorses) on a flat track, or among saddled horses over a turf course with ARCADIA - Promoters of Saturday's Sunshine Millions thoroughbred races plan to keep the Santa Anita Santa Anita may refer to:
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But, really, it's the ample horseflesh horse·flesh n. 1. The flesh of a horse. 2. Horses considered as a group, especially for driving, riding, or racing. horseflesh Noun 1. that will draw most of the approximately 18,000 racing fans expected at Santa Anita for the third-annual Sunshine Millions. With $3.6 million in purses on the line, an average of 11 1/2 horses were entered in the eight races matching California-breds and Florida-breds in the unique event split between Magna Entertainment-owned Santa Anita and Gulfstream Park and packaged for NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. television (1 p.m.). ``The concept is good,'' said Doug O'Neill, Santa Anita's leading trainer, whose event-high eight entrants include Supah Blitz and Lava Man in the $1 million Sunshine Millions Classic The Sunshine Millions Classic is a race for thoroughbred horses held in January at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California or at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Florida. Half the eight races of the Sunshine Millions are run at one track and half at the other. at Gulfstream. ``The weather is similar (at the two tracks), so it's easy to ship to one or the other. Having it for Cal-bred and Florida-breds makes it competitive. But the bottom line is that (horse owners) will go where the money is.'' The 14 horses (12 will run) entered in the 1 1/8-mile Classic include Florida-bred stakes winners Midas Eyes, Second of June, Limehouse, Royal Place, Zakocity, Classic Endeavor and Supah Blitz, and Cal-bred stakes winners Cozy Guy and Lava Man. Florida-breds should rule as they did in the first two Sunshine Millions, when easterners won 13 of the 16 races and won the track-and-field-style points battle between the state breeding industries ranked second and third behind Kentucky's. With jockeys forced to choose which regular mounts to follow Saturday, Patrick Valenzuela and four other Santa Anita fixtures will ride at Gulfstream, and Jerry Bailey and three other Gulfstream regulars will ride here. As for trainers, Santa Anita fans will have a rare chance to see horses from the barns of Eclipse Award winner Todd Pletcher (Icy Atlantic in the $500,000 Turf), Hall of Famer Bill Mott (Silver Tree in the Turf), Scott Lake (Shake You Down in the $300,000 Sprint) and Dallas Stewart (Hot Storm in the $250,000 Oaks). O'Neill - whose 22 victories in 24 days at Santa Anita are nearly double the next trainer's - will be at Gulfstream with his Classic horses and Cyber Slew in the $300,000 Filly & Mare Sprint, while assistant Leandro Mora MORA, In civil law. This term, in mora, is used to denote that a party to a contract, who is obliged to do anything, has neglected to perform it, and is in default. Story on Bailm. Sec. 123, 259; Jones on Bailm. 70; Poth. Pret a Usage, c. 2, Sec. 2, art. 2, n. will stay here to saddle Full Moon Madness and Areyoutalkintome for the Sprint and Eleventh Street, Kash Klip and Kohar for the Oaks. Remarkably, O'Neill's eight horses represent eight separate owners. They'll carry six different jockeys. In the Classic - won in 2004 by eventual 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 champion Southern Image - O'Neill hopes Del Mar Handicap The Del Mar Handicap is an American thoroughbred horse race run each year at the Del Mar Racetrack in Del Mar, California. The Grade II race is open to horses, age three and up, willing to race one and three-eighths miles on the Jimmy Durante turf course, and offers a purse of winner Supah Blitz (Rafael Bejarano riding) bounces back from a fifth-place finish in the Native Diver, and Fairplex Park stakes winner Lava Man (Jon Court) shakes a three-race runner-up streak. ``(Supah Blitz) has turned into kind of a Sky Jack horse for us, the big horse in the barn,'' O'Neill said Thursday morning from his Hollywood Park barn, comparing this 5-year-old son of Mecke to his first major stakes winner. Lava Man, claimed for $50,000 out of a Del Mar turf race, has turned into a useful main-track stakes horse. Cyber Slew might be overmatched in the six-horse Filly & Mare Sprint, but the 5-year-old allowance winner has been racing constantly, which can't be said of heavily favored Bear Fan, off six months since the Calder defeat that broke a four-race winning streak. Full Moon Madness begins his 10-year-old season for an owners group that includes former Dodgers catcher Paul Lo Duca Paul Anthony Lo Duca (born April 12, 1972 in Brooklyn, New York) is a catcher in Major League Baseball who plays for the New York Mets. Previously, Lo Duca played for the Los Angeles Dodgers (1998-2004) and Florida Marlins (2004-2005). . ``He's just a warrior,'' O'Neill said of the gelding gelding castrated male horse. who finished in the money (without winning) in all seven starts at age 9 in 2004. The eight races alternate between Santa Anita and Gulfstream from 12:50 to 2:45 p.m. Santa Anita's first post is 11:45 a.m. for non-Sunshine Millions races. Dancing girls all day long. --He should be sorry: At the Eclipse Awards banquet Monday in Beverly Hills, it was good to hear champion owner Ken Ramsey apologize for the ethical lapse that drew a seven-day suspension and $25,000 fine this month in Kentucky. It was not so good to hear racing-industry power Frank Stronach try to excuse Ramsey for offering money to another owner to scratch a horse and let a Ramsey horse into a crowded race at Turfway Park. ``An injustice was done to him (Ramsey). The public was not damaged (by his actions),'' said Stronach, the champion breeder and owner of Horse of the Year Ghostzapper. Stronach, whose Magna Entertainment owns Santa Anita, Gulfstream and other racetracks, should realize Ramsey's behavior is something the sport must discourage. If an owner takes cash to scratch a horse, what about the jockey, trainer and breeder who miss a shot at purse money and other rewards of competing? Besides, the public is damaged. It's hard enough for handicappers to interpret gaps in a horse's past-performance lines - was the horse hurt? did he need a rest? was a suitable race unavailable? - without wondering if the owner took a payoff to withdraw. If this kind of thing is allowed, then inform the bettors with a symbol in horses' 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. past-performances. Maybe a little ``Br,'' short for ``bribery.'' CAPTION(S): box Box: OUT OF THE GATE BY KEVIN MODESTI |
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