TIME TO INVEST IN GOLD?; HOFMANS TRAINEE FRESH FOR PREAKNESS.Byline: Ed Schuyler, Jr. Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Gary Stevens
Instead, Stevens will ride the other colt, Silver Charm, with whom he won the Kentucky Derby. Stevens got the mount on Silver Charm when Chris McCarron went with Hello (before being injured and missing the Derby). Stevens rode Silver Charm to a second-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. four weeks before the Kentucky Derby. McCarron will be in the Preakness - on Touch Gold. He won the Preakness on Alysheba in 1987 and on Pine Bluff in 1992. Stevens has yet to win a Preakness. While Touch Gold will be starting for only the third time this year, he was the 5-1 fourth morning-line choice behind 9-5 Silver Charm, 2-1 Captain Bodgit and 9-2 Free House, the first three finishers in the Kentucky Derby. ``He's coming off a huge race (an 8-1/2-length victory in the Lexington on April 20 at Keeneland),'' Bob Baffert, Silver Charm's trainer, said Thursday of Touch Gold. ``He lacks a little bit of seasoning, but he's very good horse, a very fast horse.'' ``I guess Gary Stevens likes the colt a lot,'' said Southern California-based trainer David Hofmans, who got Touch Gold in January after the colt had won one of four starts as a 2-year-old, all of them at Woodbine woodbine, name for several vines, among them honeysuckle and Virginia creeper. woodbine Any of many species of vines belonging to various flowering-plant families, especially the Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia, family Vitaceae) of in Canada. Stevens rode the colt to a six-length victory in a 6-furlong allowance race in March before riding him in the Lexington, after which the Hall of Fame jockey proclaimed, ``He's definitely one of the top two 3-year-olds I've been on this year.'' Hofmans said it was after the allowance race that the Preakness was made a goal for Touch Gold, owned by Canadian Frank Stronach and Janice and Robert McNair, who bought a quarter interest from Stronach. ``We never really considered running him in the Derby, but after the Lexington there was some pressure to do it,'' Hofmans said. ``But it was too soon (a period of 13 days). He's a May 26 foal foal a junior horse from birth to one year. May be filly foal, colt foal. foal ataxia see enzootic equine incoordination. . He's not even 3 years old yet.'' A layoff of 27 days after a relatively easy race, Hofmans thinks, could give Touch Gold an edge over Silver Charm, Captain Bodgit and Free House, who will be running in the 1 3/16-mile Preakness only two weeks after a tough race in the 1-1/4-mile Derby. ``Those top three horses really ran hard,'' Hofmans said. ``I'm not underestimating those horses. They'll be tough to beat, but I think we'll have a slight advantage.'' Touch Gold will be the first starter in a Triple Crown race for Hofmans, who upset Cigar with Alphabet Soup in the $4 million Breeders' Cup Classic The Breeders' Cup Classic is a Grade 1 Weight for Age thoroughbred horse race for 3 years old and older run at a distance of 1¼ miles (2012 m) on dirt. It is held annually at a different racetrack in the United States or Canada as part of the Breeders' Cup. last Oct. 26 at Woodbine. The only other of the 13 Kentucky Derby starters in the Preakness will be Concerto, who finished ninth. Two other contenders from among the six 3-year-olds making their debuts in Triple Crown competition are Frisk A term used in Criminal Law to refer to the superficial running of the hands over the body of an individual by a law enforcement agent or official in order to determine whether such individual is holding an illegal object, such as a weapon or narcotics. Me Now and Wild Tempest. Frisk Me Now, who runs in the name of Carol Dender and is trained by her husband, Bob Durso, finished third behind Captain Bodgit and Pulpit in the Florida Derby and won the Flamingo but was held out of the Kentucky Derby after he finished second in the Lone Star Derby on April 20 at Lone Star Park Lone Star Park is a horse racing track located in Grand Prairie, Texas. History Lone Star Park opened in 1997. The track offers separate meets for Thoroughbred racing and Quarter Horse racing. In October of 2002, Magna Entertainment Corp. . Wild Tempest - trained by Nick Zito and owned by William Condren, the trainer and co-owner of 1996 Preakness winner Louis Quatorze - has won two allowance races in five starts this year but was seventh in the Wood Memorial on a sloppy track April 12 at Aqueduct. Zito thinks that if the Wood Memorial is discounted because the colt did not like the track, Wild Tempest has a legitimate shot. In his last start, he beat older horses at 1 1/16 miles at Churchill Downs on May 2, the day before the Derby. Also entered for the Preakness are Cryp Too and the Robert Perez entry of Hoxie and Jack at the Bank. PREAKNESS When: Saturday at about 2:30 p.m. PDT PDT abbr. Pacific Daylight Time PDT Pacific Daylight Time PDT n abbr (US) (= Pacific Daylight Time) → hora de verano del Pacífico PDT . Where: Pimlico Race Course Pimlico Race Course is a horse racetrack in Baltimore, Maryland, most famous for hosting the Preakness Stakes. Pimlico officially opened in the fall of 1870, with the colt Preakness winning the first running of the Dinner Party Stakes. in Baltimore. TV: Channel 7. Where to bet: Hollywood Park, Santa Anita, the Antelope Valley Fairgrounds n. pl. 1. same as fairground. and the Ventura County Fairgrounds are among the intertrack sites that will offer wagering on the race. CAPTION(S): 2 Boxes Box: (1--Color) PREAKNESS (See Text) (2) PREAKNESS STAKES LINEUP |
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