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Summer Breezes: July 22, 2022

Some of the most highly anticipated races during the summer racing season are the 'baby' races during the boutique meetings at both Saratoga and Del Mar and even at Ellis Park, which attracts its fair share of high-priced offspring from a variety of top national outfits. Summer Breezes highlights debuting 2-year-olds at those meetings that have been sourced at the breeze-up sales earlier in the year, with links to their under-track previews. Already this year at Saratoga, City Man (Mucho Macho Man), Mo Strike (Uncle Mo) and Empress Tigress (Classic Empire)–each a graduate of the 2-year-old sales–have already struck at stakes level, while the likes of juvenile purchases and 'TDN Rising Stars' Taiba (Gun Runner), We The People (Constitution) and Onesto (Ire) (Frankel {GB}) have also left their mark on graded/group competition this season. To follow are the horses entered for Friday at the three aforementioned venues:

Friday, July 22, 2022
Saratoga 1, 1:05 p.m. ET
Horse (Sire), Sale, Price, Breeze
Gods Glory (Collected), OBSMAR, $50,000, click
C-RiceHorseStable (Brandon & Ali Rice); B-John Vaccaro
Inflation Nation (Ire) (Speightstown), OBSAPR, $100,000, click
C-Top Line Sales LLC, agent; B-H R Bloodstock

Del Mar 5, 7:00 p.m. ET
Uncontrollable (Upstart), OBSAPR, $130,000, click
C-Grassroots Training & Sales; B-West B'stock, agt. Repole Stable

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Gulfstream: Friday’s Late Pick 5 Opens With $94,227 Carryover

Horizontal multi-race wagers will be the focus for many Gulfstream Park bettors Friday, when the 50-Cent Late Pick 5 will boast a $94,227 carryover and the 20-Cent Rainbow 6 will offer a $175,000 gross jackpot pool guarantee.

The Late Pick 5 will span Races 5-9 and the Rainbow 6 will span Races 4-9 on Friday's Happy Hour program with a first-race post time of 2:55 p.m.

Unlike the Early Pick 5, which pays out the whole pool to tickets with the most winners in the sequence that includes the first five races of the day, a carryover is created for the next day's Late Pick 5 when bettors fail to include all five winners on their tickets. There were no tickets sold with all five winners Sunday, when bettors with four winners cashed for a $271.30 consolation payoff with $94,227 carried over to Friday's sequence.

With an incentive of nearly $100,000 being added to Friday's pool, wagering on the Late Pick 5 is expected to be brisk.

In Race 5, a $6250 claiming race for fillies and mares at a mile, drew an evenly matched field of eight.

In Race 6, trainer Ralph Nicks is scheduled to saddle a pair of 3-year-olds with experience in a 6 ½-furlong maiden special weight race for 3-year-olds and up. Nic's Bro overcame a troubled start in his debut to lose by less than a length while finishing third on Tapeta. Blind Eye also goes Tapeta to dirt while cutting back to one turn. Petulante, a son of Arrogate, and Omni King, a son of Oxbow, are scheduled to debut off some sharp workouts.

Race 7, a seven-furlong $12,500 claimer for 3-year-olds and up that are non-winners of three lifetime, pits Antonio Sano-trained Democracy against Saffie Joseph Jr.-trained Creative Cloud, both coming off non-winners-of-two-lifetime victories.

Stakes-placed One Identity drops into a claiming race for the first time in Race 8 following a pair of subpar stakes efforts. The Eddie Plesa Jr.-trained daughter of Uncaptured, who had won three of her first four starts before her two most recent disappointments, is scheduled to meet seven other fillies and mares in the six-furlong $35,000-$30,000 claiming event.

A 7 ½-furlong $12,500 maiden claimer on Tapeta in Race 9 figures to be a challenging closing leg of the Late Pick 5 sequence.

The 20-cent Rainbow 6 sequence, which includes all five races of the Late Pick 5 sequence, kicks off in Race 4 with a five-furlong $16,000 maiden claimer for 3-year-olds and up on Tapeta. Herman Wilensky-trained Harry's Onthebeach looms as a solid favorite off some solid efforts against stronger competition.

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Falling Attendances Reported in HRI’s Six-Month Industry Statistics

Fewer horses in training, a drop in active owners and falling attendances were reported by Horse Racing Ireland in the six-month Irish Thoroughbred Racing Industry Statistics, which were released on Thursday.

Attendances for the first half of 2022 were down 9% on 2019 levels while on-course bookmakers reduced by 10.3% and Tote Ireland turnover was down a further 12.8%.

However, bloodstock sales in Ireland at public auction continue to thrive, with the figures for the first six months up 31% to the most comparable recent figure of 2019.

There were just three fewer fixtures in the first six months of 2022 compared to 2021. Despite this, there were 1,508 fewer runners and field sizes have fallen from an average of 12.5 per race to 12.1 during the same period across both codes.

The number of horses in training for the first six months this year compared to 2021 has fallen by 594 to 8,342. However, these figures are still greater than the pre-pandemic 7,206 horses that were in training in the first six months of the year in 2019.

Active owners are also up on pre-pandemic figures but there are 52 less active owners this year compared to last year while just 510 new owners registered in the first six months of 2022 compared to 637 in the same period in 2021.

Sponsorship is inching back towards pre-pandemic levels. In 2019, race sponsorship reached €4.2m. That figure fell to €1.5m in the first six months of last year but is over double that in the same time period in 2022 at €3.1m.

Attendances have not returned to pre-pandemic levels. A total of 505,752 people have come through the gates during the first six months of 2022 compared to 555,475 in 2019.

Horse Racing Ireland chief executive Suzanne Eade admitted the industry has come through a challenging couple of years but praised the resilience shown among stakeholders.

She said, “After a challenging couple of years, the hard work and efforts across the industry has meant that Irish racing is in a strong position to face up to the combined challenges of the lingering effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, Brexit and an increase in the general cost of living.

“In the first half of last year, our racing calendar adapted to reflect an increased demand, particularly in the National Hunt sector, for racing opportunities for a growing horse population. A significant number of extra races were scheduled to allow horses unable to run in point-to-points to compete on the racecourse. That necessity no longer exists, and it is telling that the entries, runners and field sizes are all tracking ahead of the same comparable period which is January to June 2019.”

Eade added, “I am very encouraged that the number of active owners has held up well while we continue to attract healthy numbers of new owners with 510 registrations in the first six months of 2022, a significant figure in the face of so much economic uncertainty. Again, these numbers are ahead of pre-Covid levels of 2019.

“What has decreased, by 9%, is the attendance levels compared to 2019. Many sports and leisure sectors have faced a challenge in returning to pre-Covid levels of attendance and Irish racing is not immune to that. It is a challenge that everybody will step up to and over the past few weeks we have enacted a strong media marketing campaign to drive attendances throughout the summer. I have seen many instances of innovation and strong engagement from racecourses over the past few weeks and months and am confident that the interest we know there is in racing, will translate back into racecourse attendance.

“An increase in total Tote betting to €31.9m points to the benefits of its strategic alliance with Tote UK, and off-course betting into Irish pools is up 21.3% on the 2019 tally. However, betting on-course, for both Tote and bookmakers, is down on the pre-Pandemic 2019 figures.

“Bloodstock sales have performed very well, particularly the National Hunt store sales, with a figure of €62.5m for horses sold at public auction. This reflects the high confidence international and domestic buyers have in horses bred, reared, and prepared in Ireland. This figure is also well ahead, over 30%, of the €47.7m recorded for the first six months of 2019.”

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Breeders’ Cup Announces 2023 World Championships to Be Held at Santa Anita Park

The Breeders’ Cup, one of Thoroughbred racing’s most prestigious international events, today announced that Santa Anita Park will host the 2023 Breeders’ Cup World Championships for a record 11th time. Next year will mark the 40th running of the Breeders’ Cup, where racing participants, horses, and fans from around the globe will convene at one of the world’s most picturesque racetracks for two days of championship racing.