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YESTERDAY June 18, 2013
Last year's Graduation winner Strong Wind makes his 3-year-old debut in a $54,000 allowance race over six furlongs at Betfair Hollywood Park on Thursday.
The long and short of Thursday’s card at Royal Ascot, respectively, are the Group 1 Gold Cup and the Group 2 Norfolk Stakes. The Gold Cup, for older horses, is contested over 2 1/2 miles, while the Norfolk is a five-furlong dash for 2-year-olds.
Sometimes you eat the chalk, and sometimes the chalk eats you. For Churchill Downs horseplayers, that’s been the case for much of the spring meet in regard to Ken and Sarah Ramsey and their primary trainer, Mike Maker.
Spooky Kitten looks to be a nice fit in a $55,000 starter optional-claiming race, one of several interesting betting races on Thursday’s nine-race card at Belmont Park.
In Evening Show, trainer Kathleen Demasi said she thinks she might have a filly capable of winning Pennsylvania-bred stakes or even open stakes.
Trainer Mark Casse is still mulling his options with Funny Proposition in the wake of the filly’s victory over two-time champion Royal Delta in the Grade 2 Fleur de Lis Handicap at Churchill Downs.
There are a lot of very good sprinters stabled on the grounds pointing to the Grade 2 Smile Sprint, including the reigning sprint champ Trinniberg and two-time Grade 1 winner Jackson Bend. But the horse to beat, if he comes for the Smile, is based at ...
When the 2013 Northern California fair racing season begins Thursday at the Alameda County Fair in Pleasanton, all eyes will be on Russell Baze, who is poised to reach the 12,000-victory mark this summer.
Animal Kingdom won the 2011 Kentucky Derby in his first dirt start, and he traveled halfway around the globe to capture the $10 million Dubai World Cup in March, but he could not conquer his latest new world, England, clunking home 11th of 13 on ...
June 17, 2013
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The Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society’s Ontario Division honored its champion owners, breeders and sires of 2012 on Friday at Copper Creek Golf Club in Kleinberg, Ontario.
The Woodbine Entertainment Group will receive $38 million in transitional funding from the province of Ontario for the 2013-14 fiscal year, according to previously confidential figures released Monday by the government.
The dominant winners of two Illinois-bred turf stakes Saturday appeared to have exited their races in good condition, and both are likely to return in open stakes July 13, Million Preview Day.
Arlington Classic winner General Election remains on track to start in the July 13 American Derby after being scratched from the $207,600 Centaur Stakes on Saturday at Indiana Downs.
The return of Verrazano to top form in Sunday’s Grade 3 Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth only adds to the intrigue going forward, as does Code West’s continued improvement, evidenced in his first stakes win at Churchill Downs. Both sophomores, racing for top ...
Eblouissante, the younger half-sister to champion Zenyatta, worked a solid five furlongs in 1:01.44 on Monday at Belmont Park, and trainer John Shirreffs believes his filly is one work away from a return to the races.
An intriguing matchup is looming in the Grade 1 Whitney on Aug. 3 at Saratoga between defending Whitney Handicap winner Fort Larned and the speedy Cross Traffic.
Willcox Inn’s best form has come in races between one mile and 1 1/8 miles, but there is a good chance he will next appear July 6 at Monmouth Park in the 1 3/8-mile United Nations Stakes.
Jeremey Day's analysis of the Wednesday 6/19 card at Balmoral Park.
Though Sunday’s Pegasus Stakes became virtually a walkover for Verrazano once Itsmyluckyday was pulled up, trainer Todd Pletcher believes his 3-year-old got enough out of the race to set him up perfectly for a return trip to Monmouth Park for the Grade ...