HEATSEEKER TOP WEIGHT HORSE RACING: CALIFORNIAN WINNER WEIGHS IN AT 123 POUNDS FOR GOLD CUP LAVA MAN WON'T RUN.Byline: Art Wilson Arthur Earl "Dutch" Wilson (December 11, 1885 in Macon, Illinois; died June 12, 1960 in Chicago, Illinois) was a catcher in Major League Baseball. Art Wilson was the catcher for Cubs pitcher Hippo Vaughn during the "double no-hitter" game in 1917. Staff Writer INGLEWOOD -- Heatseeker, who defeated Tiago by 5 1/4 lengths in The Californian last month while receiving four pounds from his younger rival, has been assigned top weight of 123 pounds for Saturday's $750,000 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. . Tiago, a 4-year-old colt who also lost to Heatseeker in the 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 on March 1 but beat the 5-year-old son of Giant's Causeway by a head in the Oaklawn Handicap five weeks later, was given 121 pounds when weights were announced Sunday for the 69th running of the Grade I event for 3-year-olds and up at 1 1/4 miles on Cushion Track. The connections for Lava Man, who was assigned 120 pounds and would have been trying for a record fourth consecutive Gold Cup victory, said Sunday the 7-year-old gelding gelding castrated male horse. will skip the race and wait for Del Mar, where he'll probably surface in the $400,000 Eddie Read Handicap The Eddie Read Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race for horses age three and up and is raced at a distance of one and one-eighth miles on the turf. The Del Mar Racetrack in Del Mar, California hosts the $400,000, Grade I event, which is an important prep to the Breeders' on the turf on July 20. Lava Man tied Native Diver's record of three consecutive Gold Cup victories last year. He finished third in a three-way photo in the Whittingham Memorial Handicap on the Hollywood Park turf on June 7 in his most recent start after opening a seven-length lead down the backstretch back·stretch n. The part of an oval racecourse farthest from the spectators and opposite the homestretch. . "I wanted to make sure he's 110 percent," trainer Doug O'Neill said. "That last race knocked him out a little bit." Heatseeker, arguably the second best older male horse in training after 2007 Horse of the Year Curlin, worked a bullet 57.80 seconds under jockey Rafael Bejarano on Sunday in his final drill for the Gold Cup. "He caught some unexpected company and went a little faster than anticipated," trainer Jerry Hollendorfer said. "But he did it real nice and easy and galloped out real nice, a mile in 1:37." A field of seven to 10 appears to be shaping up for the Gold Cup. In addition to Heatseeker and Tiago, probables include 2007 Pacific Classic winner Student Council (117 pounds), Big Booster (116), McCann's Mojave (115), Perfect Drift (115) and Racketeer (113). Go Between (118), winner of this year's 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 Santa Anita; the Bobby Frankel-trained Mast Track (113); and Spice Route (113), a European import who joined the Patrick Gallagher stable last week, are considered possible. art.wilson@sgvn.com |
|
||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion