TIZNOW'S TEMPERAMENT NO JOKE.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 - Tiznow's recent mood swings bring to mind a favorite old joke. Horse walks into a bar. Bartender says, ``Why the long face?'' Ba-dum-bum. The 2000 Horse of the Year and 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. champion has his jockey, trainer and owner asking, ``Why the long face?'' And he isn't telling. Tiznow has acted up before and after his morning gallops and workouts the past few weeks at Santa Anita Santa Anita may refer to:
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The Goodwood Handicap is a Group 1 Australian thoroughbred open handicap horse race, run over a distance of 1200 metres at Morphettville , his prep for the $4 million Breeders' Cup Classic a week from Saturday at Belmont Park Noun 1. Belmont Park - a racetrack for thoroughbred racing in Elmont on Long Island; site of the Belmont Stakes Belmont Elmont - a town on Long Island in New York; site of Belmont Park . The 4-year-old colt did it again Thursday, appearing more interested in loitering Loitering (IPA pronunciation: ['lɔɪtəˌrɪŋ] is an intransitive verb meaning to stand idly, to stop numerous times, or to delay and procrastinate. than in running as he delayed his final Southern California workout for nearly 30 minutes until almost 10 a.m. To add to the mystery, when Tiznow decided he was ready to work, he powerhoused through a brilliant seven-eighths mile, stopping the clocks in 1:23.40 before galloping out to a mile in 1:35 2/5 under jockey Chris McCarron. ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. what to think,'' owner Michael Cooper told a Santa Anita publicist. ``He's got a mind of his own these days.'' Cooper said, though, that he thinks Tiznow, scheduled to fly east Saturday, is ready for the 1 1/4-mile Classic. How can anybody be sure? If trainer Jay Robbins already hadn't been a chain smoker, he might be now. If McCarron didn't have 27 years of experience with equine idiosyncrasies, he'd really be worried. ``He's not refusing because of any (physical) discomfort, I'd bet my life on that,'' McCarron said of Tiznow, third in both starts since a six-month break prompted by back trouble. ``I've got the feeling that he probably just wants to go onto the track for 20 minutes or half an hour and stand for a while, like John Henry used to do, like Precisionist pre·ci·sion·ist n. 1. One who values precision; a purist. 2. often Precisionist A painter whose work is marked by precisionism. used to do. Alysheba used to stand on the track for 20 minutes before he'd train. Those horses, when they got older, they did the same thing. ``This horse might be saying that we're depriving him of the opportunity of being out of the stall. It could be just pure boredom.'' The ``pre-entry'' phase of field selection for the eight Breeders' Cup races was completed this week. Tiznow is one of 16 horses kept eligible for the Classic, and is rated fourth on the morning line behind Aptitude and European stars Fantastic Light and Galileo. Handicappers have begun to look over the 104 Breeders' Cup hopefuls and started to try to answer dozens of questions: Is trainer Bobby Frankel's 0-for-36 record in Breeders' Cups a fluke or a factor? Will the 20 European shippers live up to their owners' enthusiasm? Is it worth trying to beat Officer in the Juvenile? And so forth. The biggest question is Tiznow. --Riders up: Victor Espinoza holds the strongest hand of any California jockey going into the Breeders' Cup. Espinoza, whose victory aboard 55-1 Spain in last year's Distaff was his first in a Breeders' Cup, is scheduled to ride the Bob Baffert-trained trio of Officer (Juvenile), Habibti (Juvenile Fillies) and El Corredor (Sprint), and remains the regular rider for Spain. Officer is the heaviest favorite on the card, 3-5 on 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. line; Habibti is a 3-1 second choice, and El Corredor and Spain are 6-1. Other local riders aboard horses listed at 10-1 or less: McCarron - Tiznow, 6-1 (Classic), and Came Home, 8-1, or Siphonic, 6-1 (Juvenile); Alex Solis - Kona Gold, 3-1 (Sprint); Corey Nakatani - Caller One, 5-1 (Sprint), and England's Legend, 4-1 (Filly & Mare Turf); Eddie Delahoussaye - Swept Overboard, 8-1 (Sprint), and Tranquility Lake, 10-1 (Filly & Mare Turf); David Flores Flores, town, Guatemala Flores (flōrəs), town (1990 est. pop. 2,200), capital of Petén department, N Guatemala. Flores was built on an island in the southern part of Lake Petén Itzá and on the site of the - Tempera tempera (tĕm`pərə), painting method in which finely ground pigment is mixed with a solidifying base such as albumen, fig sap, or thin glue. , 5-1 (Juvenile Fillies); Gary Stevens - Bella Bellucci, 5-1 (Juvenile Fillies), and Irish Prize, 8-1 (Mile); Jose Valdivia Jr. - Val Royal, 6-1 (Mile). --If you build it ...? The company that owns Santa Anita announced plans this week to build a $150 million thoroughbred racetrack and training facility in Dixon, 19 miles west of Sacramento along Interstate 80. The first new racetrack in California in more than 50 years would feature a 1 1/8-mile main track, a 1-mile turf course and a seven-eighths-mile all-weather training and rainy-day surface. Frank Stronach's Magna Entertainment, which has faced local opposition to the long-discussed project, showed off plans for a 5,000-seat facility, no bigger than needed to hold the crowds in the era of off-track wagering. ``It wasn't what I expect a racetrack to look like,'' Dixon mayor Mary Ann Courville told the Sacramento Bee after viewing the plans at a public announcement Wednesday. Approval is expected to take 18 months, and construction another 12 to 18 months. Magna operates the San Francisco Bay San Francisco Bay, 50 mi (80 km) long and from 3 to 13 mi (4.8–21 km) wide, W Calif.; entered through the Golden Gate, a strait between two peninsulas. Area's Golden Gate Fields Golden Gate Fields is a horse racing track straddling both Albany, California and Berkeley, California along the shoreline of San Francisco Bay adjacent to the and Bay Meadows. The latter's land is owned by Paine Webber and is scheduled to be cleared and developed in 2003. OUT OF THE GATE HOLLYWOOD PARK LEADERS Through Wednesday Jockeys Wins Alex Solis 22 Laffit Pincay 15 Kent Desormeaux 13 Jose Valdivia Jr. 10 Eddie Delahoussaye 9 David Flores 9 Corey Nakatani 9 Trainers Wins Richard Mandella 6 Bill Spawr 6 Bob Hess Jr. 5 Mike Machowsky 5 (Six tied) 4 ON THE STAKES SCHEDULE Santa Anita Saturday --$75,000 Sunny Slope Stakes, 2-year-olds, 6 furlongs Sunday --$75,000 Anoakia, 2-year-old fillies, 6 furlongs PINCAY WATCH Laffit Pincay, at 54 the oldest rider competing at a major U.S. track, isn't taking it easy at Santa Anita, leading the local jockeys with an average of 5.3 mounts a day. Pincay's record career-victories total is 9,232; one more and he'll be 400 clear of Bill Shoemaker's old mark. A WEEK AT THE RACES At The Races is a British television channel, originally co-founded with Channel 4, but now owned by a partnership between British Sky Broadcasting, Arena Leisure PLC and 28 (out of the 59) UK racecourses. A horse named Yukon Charley was found to have a sponge in a nasal cavity nasal cavity n. The cavity on either side of the nasal septum, extending from the nares to the pharynx, and lying between the floor of the cranium and the roof of the mouth. nasal cavity, n See cavity, nasal. after finishing third in a maiden race at Santa Anita on Oct. 4, the Daily Racing Form reported. It's the fourth known incident at the Oak Tree meet of illicit ``sponging,'' intended to compromise a horse's chances by inhibiting his breathing. Two other horses were scratched from races as soon as the sponges were discovered, and another had just worked out. Trainer Pico Perdomo told the Racing Form it's ``impossible to say when, impossible to say why'' the sponge was placed in Yukon Charley, who is stabled at Hollywood Park. California Horse Racing Board investigators are not commenting. ... Pat Valenzuela, again angling for a comeback, met with Santa Anita stewards to ask for an exercise-rider's license. Valenzuela, who rode Sunday Silence to win the 1989 Kentucky Derby, hasn't been able to compete as a jockey or exercise horses at a track since receiving his latest drug-related suspension in February 2000. ... Kent Desormeaux's riding double Thursday gave him nine victories in a stretch of 14 mounts going back to Saturday - and 11 wins in seven days. ... Jack Van Berg John Charles Van Berg (born June 7, 1936 in Columbus, Nebraska) is an American Hall of Fame horse trainer. Born into a horse racing family, his father is Hall of Fame trainer, Marion Van Berg. saddled three winners at Santa Anita last Saturday, including Slewston ($41). ... Leading U.S. jockey Jerry Bailey said he'll donate 5 percent of his Breeders' Cup Day earnings to Sept. 11 charities. ... The winless English steeplechaser steeplechaser a horse schooled in and used for steeplechase racing. Quixall Crossett suffered his 101st defeat when he finished sixth Wednesday at Wetherby racecourse near York. The horse has become such a pet of the local fans that his latest race was named for him. It was the Reliant Reva Electric Car Quixall Crossett Maiden Chase. - Kevin Modesti CAPTION(S): photo, box Photo: no caption (Laffit Pincay) Box: OUT OF THE GATE (see text) |
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