Brad Free: Southern California horses to watch for week of Sept. 22
Brad Free’s Southern California horses to watch for week of Sept. 22.
Brad FreeSep 22, 2015
Brad Free’s Southern California horses to watch for week of Sept. 22.
Dave Litfin's Belmont horses to watch for week of Sept. 22.
Mandy Pope grabbed headlines in Book 1 of the Keeneland September yearling sale for buying the probable sale topper and selling the first yearlings from her roster of high-profile broodmare purchases, but her operation continued to have a presence as the auction moved into Book 4 as the breeder of Tuesday’s two most expensive offerings.
It’s the best week of the year. It’s Jug week.
Grade 3 winner Cigar Street has been purchased by Thomas J. Young and will make his debut at stud in 2016 at Young’s Sandringham Farm in Georgetown, Ky.
The 2015 Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society (Alberta Division) Thoroughbred sale closed on Sunday with across-the-board gains in yearling returns, led by a $95,000 son of Exhi.
With Creatine and Natural Herbie now on board as United States representatives, the field is set for Yonkers Raceway’s million-dollar International Trot, scheduled for Saturday afternoon, Oct. 10th.
Stellar Wind’s first start against older fillies and mares will be in Kentucky. The question is – which race?
Big Macher will enter the 2015 Breeders’ Cup Sprint the same way he went in last year – as a fresh horse. This time, trainer Richard Baltas hopes he is not eliminated at the break. In the 2014 BC Sprint at Santa Anita, he stumbled at the break, trained for the first half-mile, and finished ninth.
The fourth race at Parx on Monday was a typical $15,000 restricted claiming race until upper stretch, at which point jockey Angel Castillo appeared to lose his whip and then either take or be handed the whip of Pierre Hernandez-Ortega, with whom he was racing in tight quarters.