She hasn’t won since Apwhen she won the California Oaks at Golden Gate. Sold It, running for Doug O’Neill and Mario Gutierrez, has won two of 13 lifetime. Querelle, coming off a win at 5 ½ furlongs, runs for Peter Miller and Flavien Prat. There are two horses in the five-horse race at 5-2. The lightly raced 5-year-old mare has won two of six lifetime races. Great Return is the 8-5 favorite for trainer Richard Mandella and Drayden Van Dyke. The feature is likely the seventh race, an allowance for fillies and mares going 5 ½ furlongs on the turf. There are two allowance/optional claimers and half the card is on the turf. It’s not a great card in that three races have just five starters. NOTE: Last week’s rankings in parentheses” Santa Anita preview He has risen to the top spot in my rankings. “With Nadal, Charlatan and Maxfield all out of the 1 1/8-mile Belmont Stakes, it appears that Tiz The Law now will be an odds-on favorite. Irwin is president of Team Valor International, which co-owns Gouverneur Morris with WinStar Farm. ‘That race is now winnable, and we think it would pick that horse’s head up to have a win,’ Barry Irwin said to Daily Racing Form’s David Grening. After it became known that Maxfield would not be running in the Blue Grass, the decision was made to run Gouverneur Morris in the Blue Grass rather than the Belmont.
9 in my Belmont Stakes rankings last week. Daily Racing Form’s Marty McGee reported that Maxfield emerged from a :49.00 four-furlong workout Wednesday at Keeneland with a condylar fracture of his right front cannon bone. It was revealed on Wednesday that Maxfield not only would miss the Blue Grass, he also has been declared out of the Kentucky Derby. “And it turns out that Maxfield will not be running in the Blue Grass either. Again, work in progress? The rule could be in place by Oct. You can strike a horse only twice in a row before giving them a chance to respond. The way it reads now is that jockeys can use the whip no more than six times and must do it in an underhand motion while holding the reins or the neck of the horse. So, Gonzalez switched his vote in the hopes that the process won’t be delayed. Then the CHRB lawyer had no idea what that meant and after going to other items decided that if it didn’t pass then it would have to go back to square one. This issue divided the board where Gonzales, the vice-chair, wanted to delay any decision hoping for a little more time and Ferarro, the chair, wanted the agenda item to be adopted. The other is that a whip rule was passed. Pleasanton will get six weeks, under two different authorities, and Golden Gate will get additional weeks. The news from the meeting was that Golden Gate Fields will keep its track open in the summer for training and in exchange it will get a few more weeks of racing that normally go to the fairs. Now, one thing I am sure of is that Amanda Drummond, manager of policy and regulations for the CHRB, overstepped her bounds big time when she brought up the politics of the board pleasing Sacramento (i.e. Not saying that’s good or bad, just different. This was not the way former exec Rick Baedeker did it. One of the big takeaways, I think, was that Chaney apparently wants to play a bigger role on the board as if he were a member, giving his opinion at various times, especially when it came to the whip rule. But I stayed because chairman Greg Ferraro passed the baton to Scott Chaney, the new executive director, rather than Oscar Gonzales, the vice-chairman. (I wanted to leave before the 30-minute final comment period because I needed to shave again. I had a couple of thoughts from the 415-minute meeting.
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