A switch to turf has changed the career of Twentytwentyvision. After winning one of his first three starts, all on the main track, Twentytwentyvision has won two straight, both on turf.
Eyeful faced a tall order in her United States debut, going 1 1/4 miles in the Grade 1 E.P. Taylor last October. She returns in a more manageable spot on Friday at Belmont Park.
Big Macher will not travel to Royal Ascot for a start in the Group 1 Golden Jubilee, trainer Richard Baltas said on Wednesday.
Talco, the winner of the Thunder Road Stakes in April, faces the most difficult test of his career in Saturday’s $400,000 Shoemaker Mile.
Firing Line, runner-up in the Kentucky Derby on May 2, missed four days of training last week because of a sore foot, a setback that could delay his next start, trainer Simon Callaghan said on Wednesday.
American Pharoah will be paraded before his adoring public before and after the sixth race Saturday night at Churchill Downs, giving fans a window of maybe 40 minutes to take another long look at the latest Triple Crown winner.
Not since his 3-year-old season of racing has Foiled Again been without a victory in June. On Friday at Northfield Park, the now 11-year-old looks to break into the win column and vault his career earnings over $7 million with a Battle of Lake Erie score.
Richard Klein, whose family bred and owns the stakes-winning turf sprinter Good Deed, announced Tuesday that the 6-year-old mare is being retired because of a knee problem.
hil Bauer could not have picked a much better setting to win his first race of the year. Bauer is the trainer of Channel Marker, a 6-year-old gelding who rallied for a 10-1 upset in the Grade 3 Jaipur on the Belmont Stakes undercard last Saturday.
The coolest thing about the wonderful performance in the Belmont Stakes was that American Pharoah ran the second six furlongs in 1:13.24, .17 of a second faster than the first six furlongs. This amazing colt, the first Triple Crown winner in 37 years, was running as fast at the end of the race as he was at the beginning.
