Needles

Owner/trainer Leo Azpurua, Jr. already had a good 3-year-old colt in the multiple main track stakes winning Manicero, but now enters a new dimension as the Florida-bred son of Mass Media won the $75,000 Needles Stakes on turf at Calder Casino & Race Course on Saturday.  The race marked Mani...Read More

Leo Azpurua, Jr.’s 3-year-old colt Manicero, a six-time stakes-winner, is the most accomplished horse in the four stakes to be run on Saturday’s Festival Preview program at Calder Casino & Race Course as he bids to make his turf course debut in the $75,000 Needles Stakes. The Needles carded at 1...Read More

Gary Aiken’s Callmethesqueeze and M E S Stable’s Battle of Love finished second and third, respectively, last out in the $75,000 Crystal Rail Stakes on Aug. 20 at Calder Casino & Race Course, a race forced off turf and run on a ‘good’ main track, and the two 3-year-old fillies breezed Saturday m...Read More