Friday, November 09 2012

Calder Barn Notes

BREEDERS’ CUP SPRINT HERO RETURNS HOME TO CALDER

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (November 8, 2012) – For the third straight year a Breeders’ Cup champion passed through the Calder Casino & Race Course stable gate just days after achieving the ultimate glory on American racing’s biggest stage as Sprint winner Trinniberg returned to his south Florida stall during the early morning hours on Wednesday.

“He was a little tired in the morning and slept until nine,” trainer Shivananda Parbhoo said of his prized colt. “But he bounced right back today and I can tell you that the same way he went into the race is the same way he has come out of it. He’s back to himself.”

Thursday, November 08 2012

11TH ANNUAL FLORIDA MILLION DAY

RETURN WINNERS HIGHLIGHT 11TH ANNUAL FLORIDA MILLION DAY
AT CALDER CASINO & RACE COURSE

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (November 7, 2012) – Title defenses in the $125,000 Bonnie Heath Turf Cup by Robert Leibner’s Bad Debt and the $150,000 Elmer Heubeck Distaff by Tonys Investments, LLC’s My Pal Chrisy highlight the 11th Florida Million Day at Calder Casino & Race Course Saturday, an afternoon featuring eight stakes restricted to registered Florida-bred horses and named in honor of Florida racing dignitaries totaling $1 million in purse money.

Thursday, November 01 2012

HORSES ENTERED IN THE 2012 BREEDERS’ CUP WITH CALDER HISTORY

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (Oct. 31, 2012) – Ten horses entered to compete in this year’s Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California on Nov. 2 and 3 have competed at Calder Casino & Race Course. Following is a list of these horses along with their “Calder connection.”

Calder will offer simulcast wagering on the Breeders’ Cup World Championships, Thoroughbred racing’s two-day, 15-race, $25.5 million event. Calder will also have live racing on both days with a first race post time at 12:30pm. Advance wagering on Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup card will be available on Friday.

Friday, October 26 2012

Calder Barn Notes - Thu 10/25/2012

CHAMP DEPARTS FOR CALIFORNIA

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (October 25, 2012) – Approximately nine hours after working five furlongs over a sloppy track in :59.80, Pinnacle Racing Stables, Inc. and Bill Kaplan’s Eclipse Award winning champion female sprinter Musical Romance departed Calder Casino & Race Course aboard a Brookledge van bound for Kentucky, the first-leg of a two-tiered journey to California where the mare will defend her title in the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint on November 3 in what is expected to be her final start.

Thursday, October 25 2012

MUSICAL ROMANCE PRE-ENTERED IN BREEDERS’ CUP

MUSICAL ROMANCE TOPS LIST OF CALDER-RACED
HORSES PRE-ENTERED IN BREEDERS’ CUP

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (October 24, 2012) – Defending Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint winner, 2011 Eclipse Award champion female sprinter, and 2012 Grade 1 Princess Rooney Handicap heroine Musical Romance tops the list of five horses that raced at Calder Casino & Race Course in 2012 that were pre-entered for this year’s Breeders’ Cup. An additional five horses that had raced at Calder in previous years were also among the list of pre-entries that were announced Wednesday.

Sunday, October 21 2012

Calder Barn Notes -

PROMISING JUVENILE FILLIES REGROUP FOR SUNDAY FEATURE

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (October 20, 2012) – Seven juvenile fillies have signed up to contest the Sunday feature at Calder Casino & Race Course, with both Arindel Farm’s Vitameta and Amy Gleaves, Bruce Hollander, and Cary Shapoff’s I Ain’t Gonna Lie looking to bounce back from failed summer stakes attempts in the six-furlong entry-level allowance.

Trained by Dave Fawkes, Vitameta was unveiled to a seven-length victory on July 1 in a five-furlong dash where the daughter of Street Sense led at every call, toying with her rivals before drawing clear in mid-stretch. The filly was subsequently shipped to Saratoga for her next start, the Grade 2 Adirondack Stakes, where she was forwardly-placed through the early stages of the race while chasing eventual winner Kauai Katie before stopping rather abruptly and galloping home the last of five.

Thursday, October 18 2012

Calder Barn Notes

CHAMPION PUTS IN WORK AHEAD OF BREEDERS’ CUP DEFENSE

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (October 18, 2012) – Eclipse Award champion female sprinter Musical Romance worked six furlongs in 1:14.20 at Calder Casino & Race Course Thursday morning, 16 days prior to her title defense in the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint at Santa Anita on November 3.

Sunday, October 14 2012

Calder Barn Notes

GLEAVES LEAVES ALL OPTIONS OPEN FOR CSABA

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (October 14, 2012) – While the Stallion Stakes sweep by jockey Angel Serpa was the lead story at the 21st annual Festival of the Sun at Calder Casino & Race Course on Saturday, the headlines coming out of the day could be made by Bruce Hollander and Cary Shapoff’s Csaba, the 3-year-old colt that put the sword to his rivals when winning the Tropical Park Derby by 14 lengths.

SERPA SWEEPS STALLION STAKES TO SHINE AT FESTIVAL OF THE SUN

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (October 13, 2012) – While jockey Angel Serpa’s first ever appearance at Calder Casino & Race Course in April was far from memorable as the young rider walked away winless in two tries, his autumnal return proved far more prosperous as the Puerto Rican native captured both of the lucrative Florida Stallion Stakes offered as part of the 21st annual Festival of the Sun, taking the $300,000-estimated My Dear Girl Division aboard Frank C. Calabrese’s Verso a Verso before returning later in the day to win the $300,000-estimated In Reality Division with Ralph Nabavi’s Speak Logistics.

Saturday, October 13 2012

Calder Barn Notes

D’NIED PERMISSION LOOKING TO BOUNCE BACK IN STALLION STAKES FINAL

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (October 12, 2012) – After his surprise victory in the $125,000 Affirmed Division of the Florida Stallion Stakes, trainer Joe Calascibetta entered D’nied Permission in the Foolish Pleasure Stakes with tempered expectations, knowing that his combatants that day, specifically Itsmyluckyday and Sr. Quisqueyano would be tough. What the veteran conditioner didn’t expect was for the son of D’Wildcat to drop his rider shortly after the post parade and run off, essentially costing the gelding any shot at success.

Friday, October 12 2012

Calder Barn Notes

PUTYOURDREAMSAWAY IN TUNE FOR MY DEAR GIRL

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (October 11, 2012) – Two days before Ione and Herbert Elkins’ 7 ½-length Florida Stallion Stakes Susan’s Girl Division winner Putyourdreamsaway takes center stage as the expected favorite in the $300,000-estimated My Dear Girl, the final leg of the 2012 Stallion Stakes, trainer Bill Kaplan appeared confident as he walked the Calder Casino & Race Course racing office.

Thursday, October 11 2012

STALLION STAKES FINALS at CALDER’S FESTIVAL OF THE SUN

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (October 10, 2012) – Calder Casino & Race Course will present a stakes-filled afternoon of racing as part of the 21st annual Festival of the Sun on Saturday that will feature the conclusion of the lucrative Florida Stallion Stakes series, with both the $300,000 estimated In Reality Division and its juvenile filly counterpart, the $300,000 My Dear Girl Division, to be run over 1 1/16 miles on the main track.