Fort Prado rallied to beat T.D. Vance by a head Thursday in the $112,600 Woodford Stakes at Keeneland. The 6-year-old Fort Prado, ridden by Rene Douglas, ran 5 1/2 furlongs on the turf course in 1:03.20 and paid $11, $4.80 and $3.40. T.D. Vance returned $3.40 and $2.60, and Atticus Kristy paid $5.40 to show.
Tricky Causeway held off True Cause by a neck Thursday in the $78,000 Awad Stakes at Belmont Park. Tricky Causeway, ridden by Norberto Arroyo Jr., ran 1 3-8 miles on the turf course in 2:18.29, and paid $12.40, $7 and $3.60. The 4-year-old trained by Jimmy Jerkens has four victories in nine career starts.
Nik Antropov scored the winner and Vesa Toskala was chosen as the game’s first star. Yet it was the large and vocal crowd at the Air Canada Centre that received a big salute from Toronto coach Paul Maurice after the Maple Leafs’ 3-2 comeback victory over the Florida Panthers on Thursday night. With Toronto down 2-0 after the first period, Maurice said a “Go Leafs Go” chant got the team going and…
The Foligno Leap made it back to hockey’s big stage, if only for one night. Jason Spezza scored his first goal of the season, Nick Foligno gave his father a big nod after his first career goal and the Ottawa Senators beat the Montreal Canadiens 4-3 on Thursday night. After Alex Kovalev scored Montreal’s second power-play goal of the game with 7:09 left to tie it at 3, Spezza brought the Scotiabank…
Bill Guerin scored his first New York Islanders goal. And his second. And his third. The first one was the hardest for the free agent who became the instant Islanders captain. Put his entire effort together, and it added up to his ninth NHL hat trick in Thursday night’s 5-2 victory over the Washington Capitals.
Thrashers goalie Kari Lehtonen injured his troublesome groin again Thursday night and had to leave the game against the New York Rangers. He will undergo an MRI in the next day or two, but interim coach Don Waddell did not sound hopeful of a quick recovery. “Certainly, he’ll be out a while,” Waddell said after the Thrashers picked up their first win of the season, beating the Rangers 5-3.
On the verge of stopping every puck for the second straight game, Martin Biron instead was concerned about the one that might slip into the net. “Once bounce here or there can turn a game around,” he said. Maybe in another Flyers season. But not against Biron, not now. Biron made 38 saves in his second straight shutout and Philadelphia proved again it is back as a contender, beating the New Jersey…
The Boston Bruins gave Claude Julien a victory in his Boston debut. Maybe they can give him one he’ll be proud of next time. “It wasn’t a pretty win,” Julien said after the Bruins beat Tampa Bay 4-1 in their home opener on Thursday night. “Certainly not to the expectations that we want.” Marco Sturm scored two goals and Tim Thomas made 35 saves for Boston, which has won four of five since opening…
Talk about a tough league. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman showed up at Thursday night’s game between the Boston Bruins and Tampa Bay Lightning with a cast on his left arm. Asked whether he had dropped the gloves against one of the league’s enforcers, Bettman said he actually had tendon surgery on Monday.
The Stanley Cup champions are getting lots of help from their young newcomers. Just two nights after defenseman Kent Huskins scored his NHL first goal in a win over Detroit, forwards Petteri Wirtanen and Drew Miller both netted their first Wednesday to lift the Anaheim Ducks to a 3-1 victory against the Nashville Predators.
