Barn Notes

By Mike Henry —- OLDSMAR, FL. – Add Edwin Gonzalez to the list of Tampa Bay Downs jockeys demanding attention almost every time they enter the starting gate. The 25-year-old Gonzalez, who considers today’s cool, windy weather downright balmy after spending recent winters at...

By Michael Adolphson Brian Spencer • Lookin At Lee Aiming for February Return • Pontifical Shows Promise in Debut Win • Gun Runner, Green Mask Top Work Tab LOOKIN AT LEE AIMING FOR FEBRUARY RETURN L and N Racing’s highly regarded Grade I-placed stakes winner Lookin At Lee...

By Michael Adolphson —- • Saint’s Fan on Track for Lecomte • Cox Barn Continues to Conquer • Myositis Mystique Running for a Cause • Work Tab Trainer Dallas Stewart SAINT’S FAN ON TRACK FOR LECOMTE Trainer Dallas Stewart is more than pleased with the progress of Saint’s...

By Jennifer Hoyt —- Declan Cannon; Coady Photography Jockey Declan Cannon Giving Oaklawn a Try Among the newcomers to the Oaklawn riding colony for the 2017 season that begins Jan. 13 is Declan Cannon, who won 11 races at the Churchill Downs fall meet to tie for sixth in...

By Mike Henry —- OLDSMAR, FL. – Stakes-winning mare Lots o’ Lex, the third-place finisher in the 2015 Lambholm South Endeavour Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs, heads a field of 10 fillies and mares entered in Sunday’s Endeavour Prep, an allowance/$100,000 optional claiming event...

By Ed Golden —- • SHAM STAKES LURES TRIPLE CROWN HOPEFULS • RING WEEKEND HOLDS FORM FOR SAN GABRIEL • TVG’S ‘THE STARTING GATE’ TO DEBUT SATURDAY • SANTA YNEZ HAS A GRADE I QUALITY: BAFFERT • MIDNIGHT STORM LIKELY TO WAIT FOR BIG ’CAP • CHAMP SONGBIRD DUE AT SANTA ANITA...