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Equibase Adds Filtering Options To North American Entries Section

The ability to filter entries by a variety of categories has been incorporated within the North American entries section on equibase.com, it was announced today by Equibase Company President and Chief Operating Officer Sal Sinatra.

“People who use equibase.com view entries information more than any other section of our website, so we are pleased to be able to add this feature for those who want to see only a particular category of upcoming races,” Sinatra said. “As an example, a handicapper who enjoys betting on races with large fields can now easily find races that fit those criteria.”

With this new feature, users have the ability to filter entries for all tracks with current entries or entries specific to their favorite track. There are six race types that can be filtered: maiden, maiden claiming, claiming, allowance, stakes and handicaps, and graded stakes races. The other categories users can now filter through when viewing entries are distance, surface, purse, ages of the horses entered, and number of starters in the race.

Equibase Company is a partnership between subsidiaries of The Jockey Club and the Thoroughbred Racing Associations of North America and serves as the Thoroughbred industry's official database. Through its website and mobile applications, Equibase offers a comprehensive array of free statistical information as well as premium handicapping products and reports in support of the North American Thoroughbred racing industry.

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Delta Downs: 96 Entered For Nine-Race Card On Nov. 24 Opening Day

Delta Downs' racing office took entries on Tuesday for the opening day program of its upcoming 2020-21 Thoroughbred season. The 84-day stand will kick off on Tuesday, Nov. 24 and run through April 16. First post time each day of the meet will be at 12:55 pm Central Time at the Vinton, La. track.

A total of 96 horses, including also eligible horses, were entered in the nine-race program to start the season. The first week of live racing will include programs on Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov. 24 and 25. The track will be dark on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday the 26th before the week wraps up with live cards on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 27 and 28.

Following opening week, Delta Downs will settle into a Monday through Thursday schedule for the remainder of the season with the only exception being Thursday, Dec. 24, when the track will be dark on Christmas Eve.

The opening day feature race is the $60,000 B Connected Stakes carded as the eighth event on the card. The race attracted a group of 12, which includes two also eligible horses. The top earner in the field is Thomas L. Holyfield's 7-year-old gelding Bistraya, who has banked $235,346 during his 38-race career. Bistraya is trained by David Gomez and will be ridden by Gerardo Mora.

Race fans will be treated to one stakes race per day for the first six days of the season. In addition to the B Connected on opening day, the $60,000 Lookout will take place on Wednesday of opening week. The $100,000 Treasure Chest takes center stage on Friday, and the $100,000 Delta Mile will headline the action on Saturday. On Monday, Nov. 30, it will be the $100,000 Jean Lafitte Stakes before the $100,000 My Trusty Cat spotlights the Tuesday, Dec. 1 card.

For more information about the upcoming season, including the entire stakes schedule, visit the track's website at www.deltadownsracing.com. Fans can also get information about the track through Facebook by visiting the page 'Delta Downs Racing'. The track's Twitter handle is @deltaracing.

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David Jerkens: Del Mar Stable Area Showing Good Signs For 2020 Fall Meet

Based on stall applications and assignments, racing secretary David Jerkens projects there will be more horses on site for Del Mar's Bing Crosby meeting than usual in 2020.

“I'd say around 400-425 a day will be stabled here,” Jerkens said Wednesday afternoon. “That's slightly higher than usual (300-350) and I take it as a good sign.”

While most trainers will, for economic reasons, continue to house charges at Santa Anita, Los Alamitos or San Luis Rey Downs training center and ship in for the races, Jerkens listed 10 who are sending their entire Santa Anita stable to Del Mar. They are: Phil D'Amato, Doug O'Neill, John Shirreffs, Ron McAnally, Bill Spawr, Bob Hess, Jr., Kenny Black, Sal Gonzalez, Gary Mandella and Alfredo Marquez.

Saturday's opening day program of the Bing Crosby meeting was put together on Wednesday with 76 total entries, 73 in the “body” of the nine-race card and three listed as also eligibles.

“We expected maybe a few more, but there are going to be some very competitive races and we're certainly happy with the eight we got for the stakes (Kathryn Crosby),” Jerkens said.

After its Saturday-Sunday opening, the 15-day meeting runs Friday through Sunday through November 22 and closes with a four-day “Turf Festival” from Thanksgiving Day, November 26 to Sunday, November 29. Seven of the nine graded stakes during the meeting will be staged over the final four days over the Jimmy Durante Turf Course.

Those races, especially the Grade I Hollywood Derby and Grade I Matriarch Stakes, have been major enticements to East Coast trainers in the past and elite trainers Chad Brown, Mark Casse and Graham Motion, among others, have sent marquee runners with good success.

“Even in this COVID era, when people aren't shipping to the extent they used to, we've received quite a bit of interest from back east,” Jerkens said. “And I know some local trainers have been acquiring horses (for turf stakes) as well.”

It has been so long since rain graced San Diego County that's it's easy to forget that torrential downpours forced cancellations of two race programs last fall, one of them a Thanksgiving card scheduled to start the final week, and the rescheduling of some graded stakes.

Still, the East Coast contingent was a strong one and the appropriately name Got Stormy closed things with a victory in the Matriarch for Casse.

“If the weather cooperates, I think we'll get some very good horses from the east like we usually do,” Jerkens said.

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OBS Open Yearling Sale Online Entries Now Available; 2-Year-Olds And Racing Age Section Added To October Sale

Online entries for the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's 2020 Open Sale of Yearlings may be made on the OBS website at: OBS Yearling entries. The Open Yearling Sale is scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, October 14 and 15.

Conventional printed consignor contracts are also available at the sales grounds or may be downloaded from the OBS website, filled out and returned via email, fax or U.S. mail.

In response to market demand, OBS will hold a 2-year-olds in training and horses of racing age section with an under tack show in conjunction with the October sale. Online and conventional consignor contracts will also be available via the OBS website and at the sales office. Entries for the both the Open Yearling Sale and 2-year-old section will close Aug. 3.

Nominations for the 2020 October Selected Sale of Yearlings can still be made at: October Nomination Form. The Selected Sale is set for Tuesday, Oct. 13.

“It's certainly been a year of altered sale schedules, but we're doing everything in our power to help our consignors and buyers,” said OBS director of sales Tod Wojciechowski. “The addition of 2-year-olds to October helps both sides of our customer base and creates synergy with the yearling sale.”

The October Sale and under tack show will be streamed live via the OBS website as well as the DRF, TDN and BloodHorse websites.

OBS will again offer online bidding during the October Sale. Buyers will be able to go to the OBS website and register to gain bidding approval, then access the OBS Bidding Screen with their credentials. For complete information on registration and online bidding please go to the OBS website at: obs-online-bidding/

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