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Fair Grounds, Golden Gate Derby Preps Highlight TVG’s Weekend Coverage

TVG's Gabby Gaudet will be live onsite at Fair Grounds this Saturday with Kentucky Derby points on the line as Midnight Bourbon, winner of the Lecomte Stakes (G3), faces a field of 12 rivals in the $400,000 Risen Star Stakes (G2) on TVG.

The thirteen-race card which will feature six stakes races, four of which are graded. The main event is the $400,000 Risen Star Stakes (G2) which will offer a coveted 50-20-10-5 Kentucky Derby qualifying points to the top four finishers. The card will also feature a prep race for the Kentucky Oaks (G1), the $300,000 Rachel Alexandra Stakes (G2) for sophomore fillies. The race has attracted a field of nine including Clairiere, a homebred daughter of Curlin for Stonestreet Stable. Trained by Steve Asmussen, the bay filly will have Joe Talamo in the irons.

There will be more Kentucky Derby points on the line at Golden Gate Fields with the $100,000 El Camino Real Derby and TVG's Joaquin Jaime will be broadcasting live from the track. The race will offer 10-4-2-1 Kentucky Derby points to the top four finishers and has drawn a field of nine including the royally-bred Waspirant for trainer John Shirreffs. A son of Union Rags, he is out of Breeders' Cup Distaff (G1) champion Life is Sweet and will be trying to earn his first stakes victory.

The graded stakes action will continue at Santa Anita and Todd Schrupp, Christina Blacker and Britney Eurton will be anchored in Arcadia, California with exclusive interviews, selections and analysis. The featured event is the $200,000 Santa Monica Stakes (G2), a seven-furlong contest for fillies and mares. The race has drawn a full field of twelve including the defending winner, Hard Not to Love for trainer John Shirreffs. She will face off against eleven rivals including three contenders for trainer Bob Baffert – Merneith, Qahira and Golden Principal.

In addition to racing from Fair Grounds and Santa Anita, TVG will be featuring racing from Tampa Bay Downs, Gulfstream Park, Aqueduct and more. Fans can tune in on TVG, TVG2 and the Watch TVG app which is available on Amazon Fire, Roku and connected Apple TV devices.

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Report: Top Santa Anita Jockeys Hit With New Whip Suspensions

Not for the first time, Santa Anita riders Umberto Rispoli and Juan Hernandez have been suspended for whip use. According to the Daily Racing Form, Rispoli was given a three-day suspension for using his whip in an overhand manner during the Grade 3 Thunder Road Stakes on Feb. 6. Hernandez was also suspended three days for using his whip more than the permitted six times during the second race at Santa Anita on Jan. 31.

In January, Rispoli got his fourth whip rule violation in two months, making the most recent his fifth in quick succession. This ruling is the fourth for Hernandez in the past two months.

Numerous whip rule violations have been handed out by California stewards since Oct. 1, 2020, when new regulations went into effect. Jockeys can now only strike a horse six times during a race and no more than twice in succession and may not use the whip in an overhanded manner. Riders protested the changes at the time, claiming the restrictions would make it more difficult for a jockey to use the whip intuitively or to safely correct a horse they believe may be about to bolt or shy.

Gulfstream Park: Friday’s Rainbow 6 Jackpot Pool Guaranteed At $1.5 Million

The 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot pool will be guaranteed at $1.5 million Friday at Gulfstream Park.

The Rainbow 6 went unsolved for the 12th straight racing day Thursday, when multiple tickets with all six winners were each worth $3,993.54.

A mandatory payout of the Rainbow 6 jackpot pool is scheduled for Saturday's 12-race program, which will also feature the $100,000 Gulfstream Park Sprint (G3) and the $100,000 Gulfstream Park Turf Sprint (G3).

The jackpot pool is usually only paid out when there is a single unique ticket sold with all six winners. On days when there is no unique ticket, 70 percent of that day's pool goes back to those bettors holding tickets with the most winners, while 30 percent is carried over to the jackpot pool. However, on mandatory payout days the whole pool is paid out to the bettor or bettors holding tickets with the most winners in the six-race sequence.

WHO'S HOT: Tyler Gaffalione and Luis Saez scored hat tricks. Gaffalione won three aboard Malroux ($8.80) in Race 5, Stripping ($6.80) in Race 6, and Lauda Speed ($9.80) in Race 8. Luis Saez scored aboard Exact ($3) in Race 1, Por Que No ($8.40) in Race 7 and Breaking Alone ($8.80) in Race 10.

Paco Lopez won back-to-back aboard Free To Fly ($3.60) in Race 3 and Philly Special ($5.60) in Race 4.

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Friday’s Stronach 5 Features Racing From Four Different Tracks

The Stronach 5 will have competitive fields from Laurel Park, Gulfstream Park, Santa Anita Park and Golden Gate Fields as well as an industry-low 12-percent takeout come Friday afternoon.

The Stronach 5, which continues to offer a strong return on investment, begins at 3:59 ET.

The sequence kicks off with Laurel's eighth race, a $42,000 allowance event for 4-year-olds and up with an 8-5 favorite in Gentleman Joe. The 5-year-old will be equipped with blinkers for trainer Hamilton Smith. Trainer Miguel Vera sends out two. Prince James, a 4-year-old son of Tiznow who sold for $150,000 as a 2-year-old, enters off a second-place finish Jan. 3 at Laurel after spending the fall at Gulfstream Park and Gulfstream Park West. Vera will also saddle The Revenger.

Gulfstream's seventh race will serve as the second leg in the Stronach 5. The allowance optional claimer at a mile on the turf appears to be wide open with Whatmakessammyrun a tepid 3-1 choice breaking from the far outside 12 post for trainer George Weaver and jockey Luis Saez. Repole Stable's Hyperfocus makes his turf debut after a fifth-place finish in June in the Bashford Manor (G3). Easy Time will also make his turf debut for trainer Mark Casse after an eighth-place finish Jan. 2 in the Mucho Macho Man.

The Stronach 5 returns to Laurel for the ninth race, a wide open seven furlong claiming event with Company Clown the 3-1 favorite for leading trainer Claudio Gonzalez. Fine N Dandy ships in from Penn National for trainer Tim Ritchey.

The fourth leg of the sequence will be Santa Anita's third race, a starter optional claimer for 3-year-old fillies at 6 ½ furlongs on the turf. Disko Fever, trained by Richard Baltas, broke his maiden last time out by 3 ½ lengths at Santa Anita.

The Stronach 5 concludes with Golden Gate's second race, an $8,000 maiden claimer for 3-year-old fillies. Wildly Dramatic is the 9-5 favorite off a second-place finish Jan. 29 against similar company. You're All Talk, trained by Peter Eurton, drops in from $35,000 maiden company while trainer Jonathan Wong will send out first-time starter Street Dancing.

Friday's races and sequence

Leg One – Laurel Park 8th Race: (10 entries, 1 mile) 3:59 ET, 12:59 PT
Leg Two – Gulfstream Park 7th Race: (12 entries, 1-mile turf) 4:12 ET, 1:12 PT
Leg Three – Laurel Park 9th Race: (13 entries, 7 furlongs) 4:29 ET, 1:29 PT
Leg Four – Santa Anita Park 3rd Race: (10 entries, 6 ½ furlongs turf) 4:35 ET, 1:35 PT
Leg Five – Golden Gate Fields 2nd Race: (8 entries, 5 furlongs) 4:53 ET, 1:53 PT

Fans can watch and wager on the action at 1/ST.COM/BET as well as stream all the action in English and Spanish at LaurelPark.com, SantaAnita.com, GulfstreamPark.com, and GoldenGateFields.com.

The Stronach 5 In the Money podcast, hosted by Jonathan Kinchen and Peter Thomas Fornatale, will be posted by 2 p.m. Thursday at InTheMoneyPodcast.com and will be available on iTunes and other major podcast distributors

The minimum wager on the multi-race, multi-track Stronach 5 is $1. If there are no tickets with five winners, the entire pool will be carried over to the next Friday.

If a change in racing surface is made after the wagering closes, each selection on any ticket will be considered a winning selection. If a betting interest is scratched, that selection will be substituted with the favorite in the win pool when wagering closes.

The Maryland Jockey Club serves as host of the Stronach 5.

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