Magna Graduate relocating to Oklahoma
Grade 2 winner Magna Graduate will relocate to Rockin’ Z Ranch in Beggs, Okla., for the 2016 breeding season and will stand for $2,500.
DRF Breeding StaffDec 28, 2015
Grade 2 winner Magna Graduate will relocate to Rockin’ Z Ranch in Beggs, Okla., for the 2016 breeding season and will stand for $2,500.
Litfin: Aqueduct Horses to Watch for week of Dec. 28, 2015
Trainer Bret Calhoun stands a decent chance of winning the $96,970 colts and geldings division of the Louisiana Futurity on Thursday at Fair Grounds, but while that seems clear, it's difficult to say which of Calhoun's two entrants rates higher.
Jeremey Day's analysis of the Wednesday 12/30 card at Northfield Park.
Itsaknockout, who won the Fountain of Youth this year but has been idle since his ninth-place finish in the Kentucky Derby, will make his much-anticipated return against a graded stakes-quality field that includes older stablemate General a Rod in Thursday's $45,000 allowance feature to be run out of the one-mile chute at Gulfstream Park.
Imperious One and Mr Notorious arrived from Europe in the second half of the year and were expected to make an impression in California's juvenile turf division. After losses in their first starts in this country, they have a one more chance to win as 2-year-olds in Thursday's $75,000 Eddie Logan Stakes at mile on turf at Santa Anita.
Leonard Lavin, the beauty-supplies magnate whose Glen Hill Farm has bred more than 80 stakes winners, has been selected to receive the Eclipse Award of Merit, an honor created in 1976 to recognize a “lifetime of outstanding achievement” in racing.
Greenpointcrusader, idle since finishing seventh as the favorite in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile, worked five furlongs in 1:02.65 at Palm Meadows on Monday.
Wednesday's main event is for 2-year-olds fillies going a mile under optional-claiming conditions. The fourth race, it lured a field of 10 led by Smart Shopping.
Trainer Eddie Plesa Jr. readily admits 2015 was a bad year as far as he was concerned. He also called it the luckiest year of his life. Those who know Plesa well understand exactly what he means.