Ness bringing more horses to Delaware
Trainer Jamie Ness will have an increased presence at the upcoming Delaware Park meet.
Jim DunleavyApr 21, 2015
Trainer Jamie Ness will have an increased presence at the upcoming Delaware Park meet.
It appears getting on the Hall of Fame ballot was tougher for King Leatherbury than actually being voted into the Hall. On Monday, the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame named Leatherbury one of this year’s four inductees.
Bob Baffert came to Churchill Downs on Tuesday to watch American Pharoah gallop and one of his two possible Oaks contenders, Maybellene, breeze during the 15-minute Derby-Oaks training session, which began at 8:30 a.m.
The overseers of the open draw made sure P H Supercam is going to have it earn it. He drew the eight-hole Saturday night (Apr.25) for Yonkers Raceway’s $529,000 final of the George Morton Levy Memorial. The 28th edition of the Levy—a Free-For-All event—is the sport’s richest race of the season to date.
Vinery Stud in Scone, New South Wales, Australia, has released its stud fees for the 2015 Southern Hemisphere breeding season, headed up by U.S. shuttle sire More Than Ready.
Arlington International Racecourse and the Illinois Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association signed a contract late Monday stipulating the manner in which Arlington’s 2015 race meet, which begins May 1, will be conducted.
It is hard not to like a horse like Grande Shores, who is coming off a short break in the $60,000 Blue Heron Handicap at Gulfstream Park on Thursday. After all, the last time he finished worse than second was 14 starts ago in the Sunshine Millions Sprint on Jan. 18, 2014. He will likely be favored in the seven-furlong sprint that drew seven horses and goes as the seventh race.
Brad Free's horses to watch at Santa Anita for the week of April 21.
It’s not quite like the Extreme Race Day that Canterbury Park has held for the last eight years, but the Thursday card at Keeneland is definitely out of the ordinary – by Keeneland standards, anyway.
The National Thoroughbred Racing Association has sent an official response to proposed rules that would sharply reduce the tax liability on parimutuel winnings, kicking off a campaign to draw support for the changes from the racing community.