Western Bloodstock Ltd. has entered an agreement with the Texas Thoroughbred Association and Lone Star Park to conduct auctions formerly hosted by Fasig-Tipton at Lone Star’s Texas Thoroughbred Sales Pavilion.
Piquant, who comes off a sharp three-length victory in the $70,000 Peeping Tom Stakes on March 21, will try to keep his recent run of success going in the six-furlong feature at Aqueduct on Thursday.
Recorded on March 31, 2015, hosts Peter Thomas Fornatale and Mike Hogan walk you through how to use DRF Formulator, using recent horses highlighted in Bet This, Not That.
Tom Durkin, whose race calls have thrilled fans all over the world, will conduct a one-day workshop on how to call a horse race on Sunday, June 7, at The Harness Racing Museum and Hall of Fame in Goshen, NY.
Last year’s Del Mar Derby winner Midnight Storm resumes racing at Santa Anita on Thursday in an optional claimer at a mile on turf, which trainer Phil D’Amato expects will lead to further stakes appearances.
From a fan’s race-going perspective, do four allowance races equal one stakes? Or does it even matter?Thursday at Keeneland is one of those days where horseplayers will have enough quality racing on their plates that they might not even notice the nine-race program lacks a stakes. Four allowances, each worth a minimum of $60,000, serve as the highlights, with the eighth race the nominal feature.
This Saturday at Hawthorne, Bob Baffert will try to do something he has never done before, win the Illinois Derby, though it’s not like he has often tried the race. Baffert’s first Hawthorne starter came in the 2014 Illinois Derby, where Midnight Hawk lost by an eyelash to Dynamic Impact. This year’s representative, according to Hawthorne racing officials, is Whiskey Ticket, who has made all of one start in his career, winning a March 19 Santa Anita maiden mile by a neck. But the 90 Beyer Speed Figure the victory produced is easily tops among the probable starters in the race, and with the Baffert cachet attached, Whiskey Ticket might well be the race favorite.
Before the start of the Gulfstream Park Championship Meet on December 6, we used DRF Formulator to look at a handful of trainers and how they’ve fared there over the last five years. With the Championship Meet coming to a close following the running of the Florida Derby on April 4, let’s look back on how these angles fared, not just as an effort in self-evaluation, but also with an eye towards whether they could remain positive or negative angles at Gulfstream next winter.
The catalog for the 2015 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-year-olds in training sale is now available online, with 490 juveniles on offer.
An intriguing field of 11 fillies and mares, including one also-eligible, will go one mile on the turf, weather permitting, in Wednesday’s $44,000 feature to be decided under optional-claiming and allowance conditions
