Santa Anita Park
- Belle's Flag, winner of the 1997 La Canada Stakes (gr. I), has
returned to training for the first time since that victory.
- Bob Baffert's promising 3YO Indian Charlie returned to the
races a victor when he won a restricted state-bred allowance race
by nine lengths over three rivals in time 1:21.95 for seven
furlongs on February 22.
- Trainer Noble Threewit, who has been training at Santa Anita
since it opened on Christmas Day 1934, turned 87 years old on
February 24.
- Career Collection had chips removed from her left knee on
February 21 and will be out of training until June.
- Boundless Beauty who strained her right hindquarter in the Las
Virgenes Stakes (gr. I) will be out of serious training for a
month.
- Sharp Cat reaggravated her cut foot and will be out until the
summer.
- When jockey Kent Desormeaux pulled up Dramatic Gold in an
allowance race on February 20, it was because the horse clipped
himself. There is no problem with either horse or rider.
- Old Trieste is over his virus and is back in training at Santa
Anita.
- Trainer Mike Puype says that Lord Grillo, who contracted the
virus first and had it much worse, has gotten over it but he is
waiting for the rain to stop before he puts him back in training
to make sure that Lord Grillo does not have a relapse.
- Hal's Pal has a quarter crack that has prevented him from
training in the wet.
- Apprentice jockey Ryan Barber has moved his tack to
Kentucky.
- Pleasant Drive fractured his right hind leg on February 21 and
will be out until the fall.
- Apprentice jockey J.G. Matos loses his bug on March 9. He left
for Puerto Rico over the weekend and will ride there until he
returns to Southern California on March 7.
- Allen's Oop bruised a foot in the Golden Gate Derby last month
and will be rested until the Del Mar meeting.
- Sprinter Tower Full will be rested until the summer at
Hollywood Park.
Gulfstream Park
- Sweetsouthernsaint has a filling in his leg which kept him out
of the Fountain of Youth Stakes (gr. III). Trainer Leo Azpura says
it is nothing major, but if the colt is not 100%, he did not want
to run him.
- Jim McIngvale, frustrated with injuries at Gulfstream Park,
took his horses stabled there away from trainer Nick Zito and sent
them to Kentucky with Steve Moyer. Included in the trainer switch
were promising 3YOs St. Michael, Treasury, Laydown, and Solid
Wood.
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