Horse Racing News

Cathy and Bob Zollers' Daddy Nose Best got up just in time to win by a neck in Saturday's Grade 3, $123,750 Colonel E.R. Bradley Handicap, giving the five-year-old horse his first graded victory since capturing the Sunland Derby as a three-year-old.

Lemons Forever posted one of the biggest upsets in recent Kentucky Oaks history when taking the 2006 edition at odds of 47-1.

Kenneth and Sarah Ramsey's Vicar's in Trouble drew off to a 6 ¾-length victory in Saturday's Grade 3, $200,000 Lecomte at Fair Grounds.

Daddy Nose Best, a smashing stakes winner in his first start over the Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots turf, returns to the New Orleans track as the top weight in the $125,000 Colonel E. R. Bradley Handicap Jan. 18.

Trainer Dallas Stewart, who saddled 2006 Kentucky Oaks winner Lemons Forever to the tune of a $96.20 ticket, will set Charles Fipke's Unbridled Forever on the same path Jan. 18 in the $125,000 Silverbulletday Stakes at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots.

After five starts on turf last year, Dennis Foster's Got Shades will move to the main track when he makes his 3-year-old season debut Jan. 18 in the $200,000 Lecomte Stakes at Fair Grounds.

A revamped Strub Stakes, moved forward on the Santa Anita Park schedule and shortened in distance to 1 1/16 miles, features two strong entrants apiece from Hall of Fame trainers Bob Baffert and Jerry Hollendorfer.

In a year when the 3-year-old male leaderboard kept changing by the month, it should come as no surprise that a horse like Will Take Charge, who excelled from August to November, be the frontrunner for the Eclipse Award.

Last March, Ribo Bobo was claimed for $6,250 out of a Gulfstream Park victory by trainer Jason Servis for Mr. Amore Stable.

Wishing Gate and Bad Debt figure prominently in the two Florida Sunshine Millions races on turf Jan. 18 at Gulfstream Park, a pair of intriguing grass tests on a day Florida-breds get the spotlight.