May 17, 2013
Emotional Kitten scored a mild upset in the $100,000 Hilltop Stakes for 3-year-old fillies on the turf at Pimlico.
With 3-5 favorite Last Gunfighter taking Friday’s Grade 3, $300,000 Pimlico Special, here are the will pays for a $2 ticket in the Pimlico Special-Preakness double.
Last Gunfighter keeps trumping himself. He won his sixth straight race Friday in the Grade 3, $300,000 Pimlico Special, and after he ran down a loose-on-the-lead horse, his trainer, Chad Brown, called the performance Last Gunfighter’s best to date.
For the second straight year, Sensible Lady won the $100,000 The Very One Stakes on the Black-Eyed Susan undercard Friday at sunny Pimlico Race Course.
There’s one big question to be answered Sunday at Emerald Downs – who will win the Governor’s Handicap – and a second, perhaps no less interesting, issue: Who will set the pace in the 6 1/2-furlong race?
In what has become Joel Rosario’s world, Fiftyshadesofhay rallied in the stretch to wear down 12-1 leader Marathon Lady and take the Grade 2 Black-Eyed Susan by a neck at Pimlico Race Course on Friday.
The remarkable Ben’s Cat, trained and owned by the remarkable King Leatherbury, raced to his 21st victory in 31 lifetime starts on Friday at Pimlico with a late-running score in the $100,000 Jim McKay Turf Sprint.
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After a hotly contested allowance prep race failed to yield any conclusive results, the top older horses at Emerald Downs will lock horns again Sunday while chasing a bigger purse in the $50,000 Governor’s Handicap at 6 1/2 furlongs.
I’m Mom’s Favorite overcame getting pinched back at the start plus a wild late run from 50-1 shot Flattering Bea to win the Miss Preakness by a nose at Pimlico
Beholder, the champion 2-year-old filly of 2012 who was second in the Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs on May 3, will return to racing in August – at Del Mar or Saratoga.
Among the items in the Hollywood Park garage sale that will take place at some point after the track says sayonara in December will be a prime collection of 37 graded stakes events of all colors, shapes, and sizes.
Emma-Jayne Wilson picked up points in three of the four legs of the Jockey Challenge at Pimlico Race Course on Friday to win the annual series over Edgar Prado.
Sweet Swap may be too quick to catch in a $62,000 allowance race over six furlongs on turf at Betfair Hollywood Park on Sunday, but he will have a formidable group of stakes winners in pursuit.
Trainer Leo Azpurua Jr. is looking for the right spot to bring Bellefire back from a brief freshening, especially after watching the multiple stakes-placed colt work a sharp five furlongs in 1:01.67 from the gate at Calder on Friday morning.
Rancho Paseana, a lay-up and training center in northern San Diego County near Del Mar, is closing later this month after owner Jenny Craig decided to sell the property.
Dance to Bristol lived up to her 3-5 odds with a powerful 4 3/4-length victory in Friday’s $100,000 Skipat Stakes at Pimlico. It was the fourth consecutive win for Dance to Bristol, who was coming off a nine-length score in the $200,000 Sugar Maple ...
Craig Dado, an executive vice president and chief marketing officer of Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, was elected to the board of directors of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association at a board meeting Friday in Baltimore, the NTRA announced.
Centre Court, arguably the top filly-mare turf runner in North America, has thrived since posting her third straight victory last month at Keeneland and is “very much on target” for her next start in the Grade 1 Just A Game on the June 8 Belmont Stakes ...