A Grade 2 winner and five other winners of six-figure futurities this season head six trial heats for the $200,000 Hialeah Derby for Quarter Horses on Sunday’s program at Hialeah Park.
Trainer Kelly Breen will try to give his Grade 2-winning filly Stonetastic a confidence boost going into the 2016 campaign when she takes on six rivals in Saturday's $100,000 Sugar Swirl, one of three Grade 3 stakes on an 11-race program that kicks off the final week of the 2015 season.
Most of the 14 entered in the nine-furlong, Grade 3, $100,000 Robert J. Frankel Stakes on Sunday at Santa Anita have a shot.
The daily average handle on the live racing at Golden Gate Fields and from all-sources showed increases during the 32-day 2015 fall meeting at the Albany, Calif, track.
The connections of Dr. Shane hope to close out a busy campaign in style Sunday when the colt takes on as many as a dozen challengers in the $150,000 Great White Way Division of the New York Stallion Stakes at Aqueduct.
The racing highlight of 2015? That's easy. It was American Pharoah bounding through the stretch at Belmont Park on his way to becoming the 12th Triple Crown winner.
The National Thoroughbred Racing Association is soliciting its Twitter followers to vote early and often for the 2015 Moment of the Year. Not to be an iconoclast – there's no money in it – but this column has a few candidates for Moment of the Year that are not on the NTRA's list. I am amazed they were overlooked:
Chocolate Ride, the top turf horse in trainer Brad Cox’s barn, breezed a half-mile in 50 seconds Dec. 19 and is progressing nicely toward the Grade 2 Col. E.R. Bradley Handicap on Jan. 16, Cox said.
A trio of California-bred colts have spent this season knocking heads in their home state – boosting the profile of their young sire, Square Eddie, and rewarding owner J. Paul Reddam's faith in his talented but unlucky runner.
By winning the Tiffany Lass Stakes on Dec. 19, Cash Control gave her dam, the Mt. Livermore mare Hidden Assets, her fourth stakes winner.
