In the official portrait of the 2017 Pacific Classic by Dagmar Galleithner-Steiner, Collected is captured with all four feet off the ground, nearing the Classic finish, with jockey Martin Garcia coiled low in a powerful hand ride.Full Story >>
As a former Bobby Frankel acolyte, Chad Brown was conditioned to treat the Grade 1 Matriarch Stakes as a rare gem, to be collected as often as possible. Frankel doted on his grass mares, and they returned the affection by winning eight Matriarchs in a ...
If Cambodia comes through in the Grade 1 Matriarch Sunday at Del Mar, don't look for her owner/breeder Don Robinson to take the fast money anytime soon.
Every trainer wants a Juddmonte horse. Juddmonte horses have names like Arrogate, Enable, and Frankel. Most trainers would settle for a second-, third-, or fourth-string Juddmonte horse, just to see what it feels like to wade around for a while in the ...
After finishing 1-2 in the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint and winning two races on the Breeders' Cup program, trainer Pete Miller is setting himself an even greater challenge, trying to become the first American trainer to win the Group 1, 1,200-meter Hong ...
Gun Runner’s conclusive, thoroughly professional victory in the $6 million Classic was a tribute to all the Thoroughbreds out there who go about their business in a manner that is consistently reliable, rather than occasionally spectacular.
Now that the 2017 Breeders’ Cup is in the books (with a couple of asterisks in my personal ledger), let’s take a look at where each equine Eclipse Award division now stands.
Without question, the Breeders' Cup Sprint will be the most important six furlongs ever run at Del Mar in a history that dates back to 1937. There have been some beauties, though, along the way, led by the track's signature Bing Crosby. Chad Summers, ...
Trainers hate the unknown, venturing forth only when the risk is significantly greater than the reward. Any discomfort in the adventure of the first Breeders' Cup to be held at Del Mar, however, could stem from the inordinate amount of publicity that ...
Denny Sparks stood at the mouth of the long, bare expanse running between the barns located a few steps from the back door of the Del Mar stable office. It was Monday morning, one week before the track would be open for training in anticipation of the ...
It's a roll of the dice naming a Thoroughbred after someone near and dear. If the horse is hopelessly slow, or runs in bottom-level claimers, that's one thing. But bad things can happen, and sometimes do. Then again, when the ending is happy, like it ...
