That's Why (#10, ML 8-1) returns in Friday's 10th race at Keeneland, a six-furlong maiden special weight race. It will be her first start since finishing second by a half-length in a maiden race Sept. 12 at Churchill Downs. The third- and fourth-place finishers from that race came back to win their next starts. Get the Key Race report as part of DRF Plus. Sign up for DRF Plus here.
American Pharoah and Beholder, the top two ante-post choices for the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Keeneland on Oct. 31, both worked just minutes apart Friday morning at Santa Anita, causing Richard Mandella, Beholder’s trainer, to remark, “We should have just worked them in company.”
BreezeFigs Quick-Pix for Saturday, October 10th by Bob Fierro and Jay Kilgore.
The $75,000 guaranteed pick five pool at Yonkers Raceway on Saturday, October 10 gets started in race two and offers $25,000 worth of seeded money from the Standardbred Owners Association of New York. The sequence is far from easy, but it is far from impossible on paper.
A star-studded collection of Equine talent will be on display Saturday afternoon at The Red Mile as the best in harness racing vie for nearly $2 million in total purses on a 14-race card.
Wiggle It Jiggleit will be making his first start since capturing the Little Brown Jug on Saturday night in a $200,000 Indiana Sire Stakes Super Final at Hoosier Park. The 3-year-old gelding will meet up with the sensational Freaky Feet Pete, a colt with nearly as impressive credentials.
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Timoko heads to Saturday’s $1 million International Trot at Yonkers Raceway without having raced since the end of June, but his connections believe the 8-year-old French star is ready to roll.
Vessels Stallion Farm in Bonsall, Calif., a leading Quarter Horse and Thoroughbred breeding farm on the West Coast since the 1980s, was sold earlier this week to a private entity incorporated in Delaware.
Champion sprinter Work All Week has been retired with a stress fracture in his knee, owner and breeder Richard Papiese of Midwest Thoroughbreds announced in a press release on Thursday.
Matt Rose's analysis of the Saturday 10/10 card at Yonkers Raceway.
