June 17, 2013
Spanish Jazz and On the Key look like the main players in a first-level allowance race for 3-year-olds and up that headlines Wednesday’s 10-race card at Northlands Park.
Itsmyluckyday was taken to an equine medical center in New Jersey shortly before noon on Monday, where he will undergo further tests to determine the extent of any possible injury that compelled jockey Mike Smith to pull him up in Sunday’s Pegasus ...
Trainer Mike Mitchell was released from a Southern California hospital on Sunday evening, hours after collapsing near the winner’s circle of an apparent seizure following the sixth race at Betfair Hollywood Park.
Baby races in 2013 were held this past Saturday at the Meadowlands. A full complement of fillies, colts, trotters and pacers were on display in 19 separate events. But something was missing.
Bob Pandolfo's Sharp Horses and Track Trends report featuring horses from Balmoral, Monticello, Northfield, Harrington and others.
Horses to watch from Monticello Raceway.
Michael Hammersly's weekly "Trip Notes" report, which recaps all of the previous weekend's graded stakes. This edition includes the Pegasus at Monmouth, among others.
The 53-year-old jockey Don Lee Frazier won the 2,000th Thoroughbred race of his career Sunday at Arapahoe Park in Aurora, Colo., when he guided Fast But Furious to a debut win in a maiden special weight race.
June 16, 2013
Jebrica, a 10-1 outsider, raced to a hard-earned victory Sunday in the $50,000 Budweiser Handicap for older horses at Emerald Downs, rallying from midpack to collar the leaders in the final yards and holding off the fast-closing Stryker Phd to win by ...
Include Me Out, a multiple Grade 1 winner in 2012 who was third in the Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic at Santa Anita last fall, had a successful start to her 2013 campaign with a victory in Sunday’s $77,070 Desert Stormer Handicap at Betfair Hollywood Park.
On the third and final day of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. June sale of 2-year-olds in training and horses of racing age, 12 horses tied for the fastest furlong, with a time of :10 seconds flat.
Verrazano is back, rebounding from a 14th-place finish in the Kentucky Derby to easily win the Grade 3, $148,500 Pegasus Stakes for 3-year-olds Sunday at Monmouth Park.
Trainer Mike Mitchell was transported to nearby Centinela Hospital on Sunday afternoon after collapsing near the winner’s circle following the sixth race at Betfair Hollywood Park.
Hammers Terror returned to the site of his last victory, in last year's inaugural Mystic Lake Derby at Canterbury Park, and revisited the winner’s circle Sunday, taking the $50,000 Brooks Fields Stakes by 1 1/2 lengths over Slip and Drive to give ...
Wizardry won the third stakes race of her career Sunday at Arapahoe Park, where she delivered as the favorite in the $40,000 Molly Brown. She won by two lengths over Jet Blue Girl, and it was another neck back in third to Lady Jila.
After fighting with her rider early in the race, Maximova had some punch left to knock out Mariel N Kathy in the stretch and win Sunday’s $90,000 Bit of Whimsy Stakes for 3-year-old fillies by a head at Belmont Park.
The venerable Catlaunch needed every inch of the Beulah Park stretch to come back and put his nose on the wire first in the $50,000 Sydney Gendelman Memorial Handicap on Sunday.
Rosengold, the winner of two stakes for 3-year-olds on turf at Santa Anita this year, worked six furlongs on turf in 1:14 at Betfair Hollywood Park on Sunday, preparing for a start in the $70,000 Tsunami Slew Stakes on June 23.
Byrama, the former turf sprinter who won the Grade 1 Vanity Handicap over 1 1/8 miles at Betfair Hollywood Park on Saturday, will remain in two-turn races on the main track this summer, trainer Simon Callaghan said Sunday.
Five Iron led all the way to upset Winning Cause, the 1-2 favorite from New York, in Sunday’s $153,300 Victoria Park Stakes at Woodbine.