Glatt optimistic Blackjackcat will draw into Breeders' Cup Mile
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Mark Glatt is optimistic that streaking
Blackjackcat will draw into the Breeders’ Cup Mile field on Nov. 4 after winning his fourth straight race Saturday, the Obviously Mile, by a length-and-a-half under Kent Desormeaux.
“He looks good this morning,” Glatt said of the Kentucky-bred son of Tale of the Cat owned and bred by Al and Sandee Kirkwood. “We’re all set. Hopefully he’ll get in; I think he will. We’ll see what happens.
“He’s not a hard horse to ride. When he gets in the clear by himself, he gets to messing around a little. He kind of runs to his competition, so when he spurted away a couple of lengths, Kent just stayed after him to keep his focus, but I think he won pretty easy.”
RISENHOOVER’S FIRST SANTA ANITA WIN IS ‘AMAZING’
Sasha Risenhoover won her first race at Santa Anita Saturday when she piloted Oh Man ($8.80) to a half-length victory for trainer Richard Baltas in the seventh race, a six furlong sprint for $50,000 maiden claimers, but the 27-year-old Oklahoma native didn’t have much time to rest on her laurels.
“It felt amazing,” Risenhoover said Sunday morning. “I never gave up, kept encouraging the horse, he came back (on the inside to edge favored Royal Trump) and we pulled it off.”
Her celebration, if you will, was short-lived. “I went home, had dinner, watched TV, and relaxed,” she said.
Risenhoover leaves Monday night for Oklahoma where her mother, Sherry, is being moved to an assisted living facility, will visit her father, Archie, who is recovering from surgery, and attend the funeral Wednesday of an uncle who died Friday.
A native of Sallisaw, Oklahoma, near Tulsa, Risenhoover rides Friday and Saturday night at Retama in San Antonio, Texas, and will resume riding at Santa Anita next Sunday, according to her agent, Vince DeGregory.
FINISH LINES: Attention horsemen—The Barretts Fall Yearling and Horses of All Ages Sale will be conducted Tuesday, Oct. 17 at Fairplex Park. “Game time” is 11 a.m. . . . There will be holiday racing Monday when Santa Anita offers another of its popular Dollar Days. Beer, soda and hot dogs will be on sale for a buck apiece. First post time is 12:30 p.m. Admission gates open at 10:30 a.m. Santa Anita will be dark Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Live racing resumes at 1 p.m. Friday, Oct. 13 . . . Peter Miller reports that Roy H came out of his one-length victory in the Win and You’re In Santa Anita Sprint Championship Saturday “great and we’re on schedule for the Breeders’ Cup (Sprint on Nov. 4). He had rated in his first three wins, but in the Bing Crosby he was up on the lead, which I didn’t particularly like,” the trainer said. “I like him stalking, third, fourth. I think that’s his best style, so Kent (Desormeaux) got him to relax really nicely and I think moving forward, that’s what we’re going to try and do.” As to 20-1 morning line longshot Cute Knows Cute’s chances in Monday’s $100,000 Surfer Girls Stakes for two-year-old fillies, Miller said, “We’re taking a shot on the grass. She’s got Distorted Humor on the bottom (sire of her dam, Sign Off). She’s fast, she’s a nice filly, so we’re taking a chance.” . . . In a racing rarity, the first three finishers in Saturday’s third race all went off at odds of 7-2 in a field of eight maiden allowance runners: slight favorite Catalina Cruiser returned $9 to win under Drayden Van Dyke; Puig ($3.60-1) finished second by 2 ¼ lengths with Santiago Gonzalez up; and Little Juanito ($3.70-1) was third, a head further back with Evin Roman aboard . . . R Sunday Surprise, a three-year-old filly trained by Kristin Mulhall in today’s first race, is a full sister to two-time Horse of the Year California Chrome. The chestnut filly by Lucky Pulpit-Love the Chase broke her maiden last out in her eighth start, winning by a head at 7-2 going a mile on Del Mar’s turf course under Israel Ocampo, who is aboard again today . . . Kent Desormeaux, who won three races Saturday, has waived his appeal of a suspension issued Aug. 12 and will serve four days on Oct. 19, 20, 21 and 22.
Source: Santa Anita Park
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