October, 2020 | Horse Racing Free Tips

Indiana Grand: Card Scrapped After Second Race Due To Intense Rain

The remainder of the racing program at Indiana Grand was canceled following the second race Tuesday, Oct. 20.

The mutual decision was made between jockeys, track management and horsemen to call the cancellation of the remaining eight races, which included seven Thoroughbred and one Quarter Horse event. The area received several inches of continuous rain over the past 36 hours with more in the immediate forecast. The cancellation will provide the track maintenance department adequate time to prepare for the Wednesday racing program with a 2:05 p.m. start.

Racing is held Monday through Thursday until Thursday, Nov. 19. All-Quarter Horse racing is set for Saturday, Oct. 3 and Saturday, Oct. 24. For more information, go to www.indianagrand.com.

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History Makers Abound In The Florida Sire Stakes

The FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes has been the proving ground for future champions and provided a road to the Breeders' Cup for nearly 40 years.

Started in 1982 as a showcase for 2-year-olds grown in the Sunshine State, the series has expanded under the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders' and Owners' Association to include both a win bonus program and 3-year-old opportunities at both Gulfstream Park and Tampa Bay Downs.

“The rich history of the series has given opportunities to showcase Florida stallions and the talent coming out of the Sunshine state,” said FTBOA CEO Lonny Powell. “Along the way, the Florida Sire Stakes has produced alumni that have won the Kentucky Derby, Breeders' Cup races, and national honors.”

Big Drama swept the Florida Sire Stakes in 2008 before going on to win the Breeders' Cup Sprint in 2010. That same year, Awesome Feather swept the filly division and followed it up with a Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies win. Thirteen horses have swept the series.

Not Surprising won the 1992 FSS Dr. Fager and finished out of the money in the next two legs in the FSS Affirmed and FSS In Reality. Three year later, he was named national champion sprinter.

Holy Bull won the In Reality in 1993 before becoming Horse of the Year and champion 3-year-old colt in 1994.

Hollywood Wildcat won the 1993 Breeders' Cup Distaff after finishing sixth the previous year in the FSS Susan's Girl.

Unbridled finished second in the 1989 In Reality and captured the Kentucky Derby the following year. He was also named national champion 3-year-old and has since produced four generations of Breeders' Cup winners.

Not Surprising honored a retirement ceremony on Festival of the Sun day at Calder Race Course.

Brave Raj, who won the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies in 1986, won the Susan's Girl and the My Dear Girl leading up to the Cup.

Smile swept the colt series in 1984 before winning the Breeders' Cup Sprint and was named champion sprinter in 1986.

The question remains as to whether 2020 will produce yet another historically significant Florida Stallion Stakes performance, a future Breeders' Cup winner or Eclipse Award champion. There may be a star juvenile now training at Gulfstream Park or Palm Meadows or at a training center or farm in Ocala that is just waiting for the opportunity to join the ranks of successful Florida Sire Stakes grads.

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Runaway Ghost Retired To Double LL Farms In New Mexico

Grade 3 winner Runaway Ghost (Ghostzapper x Rose's Desert by Desert God) has been retired from racing and will stand for the 2021 breeding season at Double LL Farms in Bosque, N.M.

With lifetime earnings of $783,509, he won a total of six stakes races, from six furlongs to a mile and an eighth, by a combined 27 1/4 lengths. His Grade 3 Sunland Derby win earned him the right to enter the 2018 Kentucky Derby, but he was forced to scratch prior to the Derby after suffering a training injury while at Sunland Park Racetrack in New Mexico.

Runaway Ghost came back as a 4-year-old and won three stakes races at Sunland Park before shipping to Kentucky for the G3 Commonwealth Stakes at Keeneland, where he unfortunately suffered an ankle injury after twice clipping heels in the race.

A third-generation homebred for Joe Peacock of San Antonio, Texas, Runaway Ghost retires sound and will continue to be owned by the Peacock family as he starts his second career.

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New York Commission Revokes Groom License For Life After He Let Horse Out Of Stall

At a regularly scheduled meeting Oct. 20, the New York State Gaming Commission unanimously voted to permanently revoke licensing privileges of former racetrack groom Ramzan Antooa of Elmont, N.Y. Antooa was arrested on criminal charges this summer after Belmont Park security personnel witnessed Antooa letting 2-year-old filly Pasta out of her stall at the track, after which she ran loose and fell, sustaining catastrophic injuries.

Antooa was charged earlier this year with burglary and reckless endangerment of property. He faces arraignment in Nassau County Court on Oct. 22.

A hearing officer determined Antooa “lacked the general character and fitness to hold a racing license.”

Also at the Oct. 20 meeting, the commission suspended harness driver Kevin Cummings for an incident on July 18 after which Cummings was charged with “engaging in an indiscriminate, unnecessary, brutal, and excessive use of the whip” while driving Keystone Keen in the tenth race at Buffalo Raceway, resulting in visible welts on the horse.

The commission handed Cummings a six-month suspension with credit for time served and a fine of $2,500 — both increases from the hearing officer's recommendations of a 60-day suspension with credit and a $500 fine.

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