Jockey Mike Luzzi Officially Retires, To Serve As Agent For Son Lane

Jockey Mike Luzzi has officially retired from the saddle, reports the Daily Racing Form. The winner of the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Apprentice Jockey in 1989, Luzzi won a total of 3,539 races over the course of his career.

Now, 54-year-old Luzzi will serve as the agent for his son, Lane, who has been riding at Aqueduct Racetrack since October.

“It was [my son's] idea,” Luzzi told DRF. “Reluctantly, I'm going to finish my career. It's tough, I still felt like I had a comeback in me.”

Born Oct. 27, 1969, Luzzi was raised in-part by his grandfather, legendary trainer Buddy Raines, who also trained one of Luzzi's biggest early stakes winners—Timely Warning, with whom Luzzi won the 1991 Maryland Million Classic at Pimlico and Grade 1 Brooklyn Handicap at Belmont Park.

Luzzi was named the winner of the 2015 George Woolf Memorial Award, as well as New York's prestigious Mike Venezia Memorial Jockey Award in 2001.

Read more at the Daily Racing Form. 

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America’s Day At The Races To Expand Coverage Of Oaklawn Park

The New York Racing Association Inc. (NYRA) announced Sunday that America's Day at the Races, the acclaimed national telecast produced by NYRA in partnership with FOX Sports, will expand its coverage of the 2023-24 meet at Oaklawn Park.

Highlighted by the Grade 1, $1.5 million Arkansas Derby on March 30, the 2023-24 Oaklawn Park meet opens on Friday, December 8 and continues through Saturday, May 4. The 2023-24 Oaklawn meet will include 47 stakes races over the course of 66 race days at the Hot Springs, Arkansas oval.

As part of a multi-year agreement, America's Day at the Races will feature daily analysis and handicapping of Oaklawn Park racing as well on-site coverage from NYRA television personalities throughout Opening Weekend, Smarty Jones weekend, Rebel weekend, Arkansas Derby weekend, Apple Blossom weekend and Oaklawn Handicap weekend.

Additionally, NYRA and Oaklawn Park will offer a new Cross Country Pick 5 wager each day when both Aqueduct Racetrack and Oaklawn Park conduct racing. The special wager will first be offered on Friday, December 8.

The Cross Country Pick 5 requires bettors to pick the winner of five select races from Aqueduct Racetrack and Oaklawn Park. The minimum bet for the multi-track, multi-race wager is 50 cents.

Wagering on the Cross Country Pick 5 is available on ADW platforms and at simulcast facilities across the country with each day featuring a mandatory payout of the net pool.

America's Day at the Races will present daily coverage and analysis of the fall meet at Aqueduct Racetrack on the networks of FOX Sports. For the complete broadcast schedule, visit https://www.nyra.com/aqueduct/racing/tv-schedule.

NYRA Bets is the official wagering platform of Aqueduct Racetrack, and the best way to bet every race of the fall meet. Available to horseplayers nationwide, the NYRA Bets app is available for download today on iOS and Android at www.NYRABets.com.

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My Prankster To Stand In West Virginia For O’Sullivan Farms

My Prankster (bay horse, foaled 2019 by Into Mischief – My Wandy's Girl), has been sold and will stand the 2024 breeding season at O'Sullivan Farms, located in Charles Town, W.V.

My Prankster was a $600,000 purchase for Robert amd Lawana Low at the Fasig-Tipton Select Yearling Sale in 2020. Trained by Todd Pletcher he broke his maiden in impressive style at Saratoga, winning by ten lengths in his first start at two and showing brilliant speed. He also won the Grade 3 Swale Stakes at the Gulfstream Park Champions Meet, where he easily outkicked the rest of the field to win the seven furlong contest.

In his career, he beat Grade 1 winner and 2-year-old Eclipse Champion Corniche, Grade 1 winner Gunite, and Grade 1 winner Pinehurst. He retires with three wins in 10 career starts at two and three and with $314,840 in earnings.

He is by perennial leading sire Into Mischief and is out of champion My Wandy's Girl (Flower Alley) who won 15 of 25 starts.

O'Sullivan Farms was founded 1939 and continues to this day as family-owned and operated. They currently have one of the top stallion rosters in the Mid-Atlantic, which include the graded stakes producing sire Limehouse, Aldrin, Tapit's only brother at stud, Saratoga Grade 1 winner Capo Bastone and young successful sire Golden Years.

My Prankster is now in the process of being syndicated and will be joining the above-mentioned stallions for the 2024 season.

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