A promising 2-year-colt making his career debut stole the show Friday at Los Alamitos. The highly touted I Will Score scored a 6 1/2-length debut romp in race 4, timed in a quick 1:03.04 for 5 1/2 furlongs. Mike Smith rode I Will Score for trainer Jerry Hollendorfer.
A quintet of Doug O’Neill-trained 2-year-olds will spread across the country this fall as they move closer to the Breeders’ Cup.
Matt Rose's analysis of the Monday 9/14 card at Yonkers Raceway.
A $65,000 colt from the first crop of stallion Hansen topped the horses on offer at the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society (British Columbia Division) yearling and mixed sale, which posted across-the board gains over last year’s edition.
Garnet Barnsdale's analysis of the Monday 9/14 card at Mohawk Racetrack.
Fasig-Tipton will host the 2016 Florida 2-year-olds in training sale on Wednesday, March 2 at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla.
Jeremey Day's analysis of the Sunday 9/13 card at Balmoral Park.
Darby Dan Farm in Lexington, Ky., has acquired the breeding rights to multiple Grade 2 winner Tapiture, who will race for the remainder of the year before retiring to stud. The 4-year-old son of Tapit is currently training at Saratoga toward a final start in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile, in which he finished second last year. Steve Asmussen conditions the colt for owner/breeder Winchell Thoroughbreds.
Though the format has been tweaked slightly, the 2015 edition of the Keeneland September yearling sale looks much like the one that it preceded. Once again, the 12-day sale will start after a record-setting juvenile sales season and a run of solid performances from the earlier yearling sales on the calendar. The catalog even maintained a head count close to the 2014 edition, which produced similar returns to the 2013 sale.
The Breeders Sales Company of Louisiana announced Friday that it has received six supplemental entries to its annual yearling sale.
