November, 2021 | Horse Racing Free Tips

Caroom’s Tempt Fate Returns For 2022 Oaklawn Meet

Tempt Fate, the winningest horse of the 2021 Oaklawn meeting, is scheduled to be active again during the 2021-2022 live season that begins Dec. 3, owner Jerry Caroom of Hot Springs said.

A 4-year-old Arkansas-bred son of Hamazing Destiny, Tempt Fate was 4 for 4 last season at Oaklawn (all against state-breds), including the $150,000 Nodouble Breeders' Stakes and $200,000 Arkansas Breeders' Championship Stakes in his two-turn debut at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark.

The speedy Tempt Fate has raced just twice since the April 30 Arkansas Breeders' Championship, finishing sixth in the $100,000 off-the-turf Chamberlain Bridge Stakes May 31 at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas, and fifth in his allowance comeback sprint Nov. 10 at Delta Downs in Vinton, La.

“Just tuning him back up,” said Caroom, who was Oaklawn's co-fourth-leading owner last season with 10 victories. “Almost exactly the program we did last year. He loves this track.”

Caroom said Tempt Fate will again target Oaklawn's lucrative program for Arkansas-breds. He won two allowance races last season before dipping, successfully, into stakes waters.

“Why screw up that?” Caroom said. “I hope we'll see him four times. Four wins, hopefully. His mission is to go 4-0 this year. Hoonani Road went 7-0 at this track. I want this one to do eight.”

Hoonani Road, also campaigned by Caroom, won his first seven Oaklawn starts (all against state-breds), including the $100,000 Rainbow Stakes in 2018 and the Nodouble and Arkansas Breeders' Championship in 2019. Tempt Fate ran third in the 2020 Rainbow before dominating state-bred foes in 2021.

Trainer Carl Deville, on behalf of Caroom, had claimed Tempt Fate for $40,000 out of a third-place finish in his second career start, Feb. 14, 2020, at Oaklawn.

After losing Hoonani Road to a $25,000 claim in August 2020 at Ellis Park in Henderson, Ky., Caroom privately purchased him shortly before the 2021 Arkansas Breeders' Championship and retired the 6-year-old gelding to a farm near Opelousas, La., where Deville's grandchildren reside.

Caroom said he could have as many as 20 horses stabled at Oaklawn in 2021-2022, mostly with Deville. Caroom could eventually have a Kentucky Oaks prospect on the grounds in Pipeline Girl, a Tom Amoss trainee who won her career debut sprinting in June at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., before finishing 11th in the $400,000 Grade 1 Alcibiades Stakes Oct. 8 at Keeneland in her two-turn debut. Pipeline Girl returned to finish third in a Nov. 13 allowance sprint at Churchill Downs.

“In the Alcibiades, she just completely laid an egg,” Caroom said. “The route messed her up a little bit. My strong desire is to have her here, but if she turns out that she's more suitable for the grass, then she'll stay with Amoss at Fair Grounds.”

Caroom purchased Pipeline Girl, a daughter of Air Force Blue, a multiple Group 1 winner in Europe, for $100,000 at the 2020 Keeneland September Yearling Sale.

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Green Returns To Oaklawn In 2022 To Build On 2021 Success

Trainer Aidan Green is back at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark., to try and build on a breakout 2021 meeting, when her modest stable produced nine victories, seven seconds, and nine thirds from 42 starters and amassed $347,560 in purse earnings.

Green's 2021 Oaklawn meet highlights included her first career victory recognized by Equibase, racing's official data gathering organization, and first career stakes victory when Blame J D captured the $150,000 Rainbow for 3-year-old Arkansas-bred sprinters in the waning days of the live season.

“Kicked back a little after that, but not too much,” said Green, who is raising three small children near Oaklawn with her husband/assistant, Ike. “Breaking babies and we've got broodmares and everything. Got rid of some horses. So, I'll sit around 10 or 12, just like always. I've been dropping like crazy at Churchill. I've got owners wanting to get horses, and new guys coming in, and we just keep getting outshook every time.”

Green said trying to claim horses at Churchill Downs has been fueled, in part, because of her success last season at Oaklawn, adding she's picked up a handful of new owners in advance of opening day, Dec. 3, including Dennis Pohl of St. Louis.

“I've gotten some new people since then, and people that want in, so that's exciting,” Green said. “Dennis has had horses with other trainers. He called and said he wanted someone with a smaller stable, where they get real attention. We've been trying to get some claimed for him.”

Green's best horse to date, Blame J D, was turned out following the 2021 Oaklawn meeting (five starts, including a state-bred maiden special weights sprint) and just resumed preparing for a 2022 campaign, Ike Green said.

The Greens formerly worked as assistants under 2020 Oaklawn training champion Robertino Diodoro. Aidan Green's first official starter recognized by Equibase was Feb. 14, 2020, at Oaklawn. Ike Green has 98 career training victories, the last coming in 2014, according to Equibase. All nine of Aidan Green's career victories recognized by Equibase have come at Oaklawn.

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Canchari’s Pursuit Of 1,000th Win Will Continue At Oaklawn

Alex Canchari's chase to a career milestone will apparently come at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark.

Canchari said that he plans to ride the entire Oaklawn meet (Dec. 3-May 8) in pursuit of his 1,000th career victory. Canchari has 981 career victories, according to Equibase, racing's official data gathering organization, including 198 at Oaklawn.

“I'm just going to try to work hard and hopefully have a good meet,” Canchari said during training hours Friday morning at Oaklawn. “I'll try to ride a little bit for everybody.”

Canchari, 27, said he arrived Thursday in Hot Springs after riding the past month at Mahoning Valley in Ohio. Despite missing the first month of the 2021 Oaklawn meeting – the jockey was riding at Turfway Park – Canchari amassed $621,716 in purse earnings, the bulk coming from victories aboard Carlos L. in the $150,000 Temperence Hill Stakes for older horses at 1 ½ miles and aboard Sir Wellington in the $150,000 Gazebo Stakes for 3-year-old sprinters. Both victories were for Canchari's longtime client, trainer Mac Robertson.

Canchari has ridden regularly at Oaklawn since 2012 and set a single-season personal best in Hot Springs with 45 victories in 2017, when he tied for third in the standings. Canchari has nine stakes victories and $8,370,423 in purse earnings in his Oaklawn career.

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Golden Gate Fields Winter Meet Gets Purse Boost For Claiming, Maiden Claiming, Starter Allowance Races

Golden Gate Fields officials announced Friday that, beginning Sunday, Dec. 26, all starter allowance, maiden claiming and claiming races at at the Bay Area track in Albany, Calif., will receive purse increases of $3,000. For most of these races, the increase ranges from 20% to, at the highest, 30%.

“We're really pleased to be able to deliver this purse increase to the horsemen at the most appropriate time,” said David Duggan, vice president and general manager of Golden Gate Fields. “We appreciate our owners, breeders, trainers, jockeys and all of the people who work for them who continue to support our racing product.”

Lower level claiming conditions will see the highest increase, ranging from a 25% to 30% increase per level. Most mid-level claiming purses, both winners and maidens running for a tag, are improving at a 15% to 25% rate. Higher claiming conditions are also set for the same $3,000 purse increase as the lower level races. $40,000 claimers-the highest claiming condition currently offered in Northern California-will elevate from the current $25,000 purse to $28,000. “Non-winners of 2” starter allowance races will bump up an additional $3,000, too (from $19,000 to $22,000), as will all other starter allowance conditions.

Dec. 26, 2021 is opening day of the Winter/Spring meet of 2021/2022 at Golden Gate Fields. The Winter/Spring meet commencing the day after Christmas and runs through mid-June.

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