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June 15, 2013
Paynter’s thrilling comeback win in an allowance race at Betfair Hollywood Park on Friday was more than a brilliant performance. It was very fast, too.
It’s time for Sentimental Lass to show whether she still wants to race or would be better off beginning a new career as a broodmare.
Rain continued to fall in the Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, area on Saturday, washing out the opening weekend of the 2013 meeting at Marquis Downs.
In the last five years, trainer Tim Kreiser has won with only one horse making the switch from a dirt sprint to a turf route – Relay Bill, who is scheduled to make his first start on grass since that victory in Monday's sixth race at Delaware Park.
The Queen Anne, a Group 1 going a mile, is run down a straight, undulating Royal Ascot course far different from anything Animal Kingdom has encountered in a race.
Jockey Shane Laviolette, aboard A Wish for My Lady, achieved his 2,000th career win Friday evening at Prairie Meadows.
The 64 horses in Woodbine’s Barn 3 all have tested negative for the equine herpesvirus and will be allowed to resume training after being under quarantine since Tuesday.
The Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance (TAA) received $39,000 from the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s March sale of selected 2-year-olds in training. This amount represents combined contributions from buyers and consignors and the sale company, collected ...
Sent off as the heavy favorite, Auniqueaquistion did not disappoint.
Wise Dan had another sizzling breeze Saturday morning at Keeneland while trainer Charlie LoPresti continued to mull the future possibilities for the 2012 Horse of the Year.
Bayou circuit legend and all-time Louisiana-bred earnings leader Star Guitar was named Louisiana Horse of the Year for the fourth consecutive year last week. The Louisiana Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association held its annual meeting on June 8 at Fair ...
June 14, 2013
Heavy rains created potentially unsafe track conditions and resulted in the cancellation of live racing at Marquis Downs on Friday evening, the scheduled opening day of a 26-day meeting.
Paynter, one of the top 3-year-olds of 2012 who was seriously ill last summer and fall with colitis and laminitis, scored an emphatic victory in his comeback race at Betfair Hollywood Park on Friday.
John Velazquez expressed more relief than joy when he guided Galloping Giraffe from last to first to win Belmont's sixth race Friday, giving the jockey his 5,000th career win in North America.
Racing fans can only hope the recent 90-day suspension handed down in the case involving Dr. Orlando Paraliticci ("Veterinarian takes 90-day ban," May 30) is part of a compromise for his truthful testimony and cooperation.
Six horses completed a one-furlong breeze in :10 seconds flat on Friday during the first day of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. June sale of 2-year-olds in training and horses of racing age pre-sale under-tack show.
Jockey Norberto Arroyo Jr. has dropped his appeal of a suspension and will begin serving the penalty Sunday. Arroyo originally was given a three-day suspension because of a careless riding incident at Churchill Downs on May 25, but he will now serve ...
Blueeyesintherein earned an 86 Beyer Speed Figure in a 4 3/4-length romp Thursday in a third-level allowance at Churchill Downs and probably goes next in the Grade 1 $300,000 Prioress Stakes, a six-furlong race on July 27 at Saratoga, said trainer ...
Trainer Gary “Red Dog” Hartlage reported early Friday that staff members at the Hagyard Equine Medical Institute in Lexington, Ky., have informed him that they have been unable to precisely determine what caused On Fire Baby to spike a high fever ...
Heavenly Prize, a multiple Grade 1 winner and champion for Ogden Phipps who went on to become a successful broodmare, died earlier this year. The daughter of Seeking the Gold, who was boarded at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Ky., was 22.