Oh Baby Oh Baby won her third consecutive race on Friday night, rolling home by four lengths in the $65,000 Lookout Stakes at Delta Downs. Look Into My Eyes finished second, while it was another 1 1/4 lengths back to Believeinsomething in third.
Gulfstream’s Saturday card features plenty of excellent betting races full of evenly matched horses. Let’s look at the two stakes races for 3-year-olds on turf as well as a loaded maiden special weight for juvenile colts on the main track.
Jockey Glen Murphy reached a milestone of 3,000 Thoroughbred wins in North America on Friday when he won the fifth race on the opening-day program at Sunland Park. Murphy’s first career win also came at the New Mexico track, in 1984, according to Daily Racing Form records.
Touch Gold, the winner of the 1997 Belmont Stakes and resident of Adena Springs in Paris, Ky., has been pensioned from stud duty and now resides at Old Friends Equine Retirement in Georgetown, Ky.
DRF handicapper Mike Beer outlines his strategy for the late pick four on Saturday's program at Tampa Bay Downs.
The Harness Racing Social Marketing Initiative conducted in partnership with Converseon, the New York City-based, full-service social media consultancy, has released the year-end results for 2015 activities. In only its second year, the initiative has achieved substantial growth and engagement across the board while exceeding its goals for the year.
Grade 1 winners Lochte and Twilight Eclipse were among the 26 horses nominated to the Grade 3 W.L. McKnight Handicap here next Saturday.
Little Mike, who has not started since winning the Flying Pidgeon Stakes here in May 2014, will launch one more comeback, owner-trainer Carlo Vaccarezza said earlier this week.
The post-World War II internationalization of Thoroughbred racing began officially in 1952 with the inauguration of the Washington, D.C., International at Laurel Racecourse. First won by English-trained Wilwyn, the International was the first annual event specifically designed to attract horses from both Europe and the U.S. Laurel’s late owner John Shapiro, the inventor of the International, would hardly recognize the international landscape of Thoroughbred racing in the 21st century, an era characterized by huge, multi-race events that attract top horses from all over the globe. Not least among those international events is Hong Kong’s International Races festival held last weekend at Sha Tin.
The North American auction market continued to find its statistical cruising speed in 2015 after several years of upward momentum, though it was not clear sailing for all.
