ROUNDUP: DON'T GET MAD MIGHT MISS DERBY.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services Ron Ellis Ronald John Edward Ellis (born January 8, 1945 in Lindsay, Ontario) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey right winger who played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Toronto Maple Leafs. continues to prepare Don't Get Mad for Saturday's Kentucky Derby Kentucky Derby One of the classic U.S. Thoroughbred horse races. It was established in 1875 and run annually on the first Saturday in May at Churchill Downs track in Louisville, Ky. With the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes, it makes up U.S. racing's coveted Triple Crown. , knowing the colt might have to wait to make his next start in the May 21 Preakness. Ellis, the trainer, must wait for B. Wayne Hughes Bradley Wayne Hughes (born September 28, 1933 in Gotebo, Oklahoma) is the billionaire founder and chairman of Public Storage, the largest self-storage company in America. Known all his life by his middle name, B. , owner of Don't Get Mad and Greeley's Galaxy, to decide which of the two colts to enter in the Derby. Ellis, a Glendale native who graduated from Monroe High in North Hills, said Sunday in Louisville, Ky., that it is not uncomfortable situation. Ellis picked out Greeley's Galaxy for Hughes at a 2-year-olds auction in Kentucky in April 2004. Greeley's Galaxy won the Illinois Derby for 83-year-old trainer Warren Stute. ``We look at everything as a team,'' Ellis said of himself and Hughes. ``I want what's best for the team.'' Greeley's Galaxy can be entered in the Derby only if Hughes pays a $200,000 supplemental fee and can run in the 20-horse race only if one of the early nominees on the current list of 21 hopefuls drops out by Wednesday. Don't Get Mad bounced back from a sixth-place finish in the Santa Anita Derby The Santa Anita Derby is an American Grade 1 thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds run each April at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California and carries a purse of $750,000. to score a seven-length victory with jockey Gary Stevens in Saturday's Derby Trial at Churchill Downs. ``Some people say he's just a one-turn horse, but I don't believe that. I think the (anti-bleeding medication) Lasix dulled him in California,'' Ellis said of Don't Get Mad, who became the trainer's Derby hope after Declan's Moon was injured. ``We took him off Lasix (Saturday), and he warmed up with a lot more energy. We scoped him (about 30 minutes) after the Trial, and he didn't bleed.'' --At Hollywood Park: Pat Valenzuela completed a weekend stakes sweep by riding Short Route ($11) to a neck victory over favored Inspiring in the $109,700 Railbird rail·bird n. Slang A horseracing enthusiast, especially one who watches races at the outer rail of the track. Noun 1. Stakes for 3-year-old fillies. Valenzuela won Saturday's Inglewood Handicap with King of Happiness. --Elsewhere: Chowder's First ($16.40) and jockey Joe Bravo won by 1 1/4 lengths over Spite the Devil in the $78,725 Kings Point Handicap The The Kings Point Handicap is an ungraded stakes race for three-year-olds and up run in the Spring at Aqueduct Racetrack in Jamaica, New York. At a distance of 1 and 1/6 mile, it's in its 28th running in 2008 and offers a purse of $65,000. at Aqueduct racetrack in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . Funny Cide, expected to be an overwhelming favorite, was scratched. Trainer Barclay Tagg didn't like the assigned weight of 127 nor the wet conditions. CAPTION(S): box Box: UNDER THE SPIRES |
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