Yulong Warrior came from midpack to win the $100,000 Getaway Day Stakes for 3-year-olds at Emerald Downs on Sunday. He paid $14.80 for his 1 1/4-length win over Weekend Wizard in the closing-day feature.
Quarter Horse racing’s reigning world champion, Jessies First Down, won his third straight Grade 1 race in his third start of the year Sunday, barreling home by a half-length ahead of Major Bites in the $300,000 Fall Quarter Horse Championship at The ...
Thor De Vie extended a win streak to four thanks to a 1:53 4/5 performance in the $55,000 New York Sire Stakes Excelsior Series final for 3-year-old pacing colts and geldings on Sunday afternoon at Saratoga Casino.
It wasn’t for lack of confidence that trainer David Cannizzo entered Black Tide in an $85,000 allowance race for Thursday at Belmont Park. It was merely a backup plan.
She was talented enough to win a Grade 1 race as a maiden. But in the two years since taking the Del Mar Debutante, Union Strike had managed to win just once in eight starts.
Trainer Arnaud Delacour sent out three runners in the six-horse Brookmeade Stakes at Laurel Park on Sunday and took down the trifecta with Paulita, Well Blessed, and Armoire. The Brookmeade was the last of four $75,000 Virginia-bred or -sired stakes on ...
Lookin for Eight, the longest shot in a four-horse field, notched his first stakes in style under Jerome Lermyte in Sunday’s Grade 3, $126,500 Durham Cup at Woodbine.
Bourbon Stritta shocked nearly everyone when he came charging on the outside from left field to take the $100,400 Bull Page Stakes over Souper Hot at Woodbine on Sunday.
Brill, fourth as the favorite in the Grade 1 Del Mar Debutante on Sept. 1, will start in Saturday’s Grade 1 Chandelier Stakes at Santa Anita after a succession of fast workouts in recent days.
