Going by the company she’s been keeping, Crowley’s Law stands out in Saturday’s $100,000 River Memories Stakes, and she could end a long drought in the one-mile turf route at Woodbine.
As people begin their scrutiny of the past performances for the $500,000 3-Year-Old Filly Pace to be contested this Saturday (October 24) evening at Woodbine Racetrack, they certainly will come across a filly whose name does not leap off the page. That lass would be the $6,000 yearling purchase Frost Damage Blues.
The Jockey Club released its North American Report of Mares Bred statistics for the 2015 breeding season, which revealed fewer active stallions and an almost even number or mares bred compared with the same point on the calendar in 2014.
This weekend, most of the top performers in our sport will be in action in the Breeders Crown at Woodbine in Ontario. Regardless of this weekend’s results, at some point in the future these amazing performers will see their racing careers end. For the best horses there is always a place to go, whether in the breeding shed or on the racetrack, but what happens to the rest?
While still on pace to be one of the strongest renewals in the auction’s history, Wednesday’s session of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall yearling sale continued the trend of finishing behind last year’s comparable sessions in both gross and average returns.
While nearly every eye in harness racing will definitely be affixed to what transpires this Saturday (October 24) in the Great White North, Hoosier Park commands attention on Friday (October 23) as the Anderson oval provides a 13-race card featuring six divisions of the Circle City Stakes for 3-year-olds of both genders and gaits. The marquee attraction is the return of Wiggle It Jiggleit, the sport’s top ranked horse, after his second-place finish on October 10 in the $220,000 Indiana Sire Stakes Super final to Breeders Crown participant Freaky Feet Pete.
The New York Racing Association plans to reduce its live winter racing schedule at Aqueduct by about 12 days in 2016, going to a four-day race week from January through March, according to Chris Kay, NYRA’s chief executive officer and president.
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Beholder walked the shed row under tack Wednesday and was to return to the track the following morning, as trainer Richard Mandella reiterated that the champion's elevated temperature after arriving in Kentucky was due to shipping stress.
The Breeders’ Cup Turf will be run this year in its traditional spot preceding the Classic, the Breeders’ Cup announced on Wednesday, nine days before the two-day event is scheduled to kick off at Keeneland in Lexington on Oct. 30.
