Fasig-Tipton Texas juvenile and horses of racing age catalog now online
The catalog for the 2015 Fasig-Tipton Texas 2-year-olds in training and horses of racing age sale is now available online, with 121 offerings.
The catalog for the 2015 Fasig-Tipton Texas 2-year-olds in training and horses of racing age sale is now available online, with 121 offerings.

Ash Wednesday, the day after Mardi Gras, one can find a few folks wandering the French Quarter in New Orleans with a “What am I doing here?” glaze over their eyes.
The Ocala, Fla., City Council approved a plan Tuesday to develop Ocala Stud and Red Oak Farm into a roughly 400-acre residential and commercial area called Trinity Lane, the Ocala Star-Banner reported.

Vyjack, the multiple graded stakes-winning gelding, has had two workouts at the Fair Hill Training Center in Maryland and could return to the races in March or April, trainer Rudy Rodriguez said.

Read the Footnotes might have been more brilliant, and Samraat maybe had more heart, but of the Kentucky Derby prospects Rick Violette Jr. has trained, none has been in a better position at this point than Upstart, who has both brilliance and heart and currently ranks as the best Kentucky Derby prospect on the East Coast.

Friday’s $75,000 feature at Aqueduct could be mistaken for the Evening Attire Stakes, though in reality it’s a third-level optional $80,000 claimer for older males going a mile over the inner track.

Though he hasn’t completely closed the door on shipping his top sprinter, Salutos Amigos, to Dubai for the $2 million Golden Shaheen, trainer David Jacobson said Wednesday that he is leaning toward staying home and pointing to one or two graded stakes at Aqueduct.
The Canadian Pari-Mutuel Agency has announced that it has begun testing for elevated levels of cobalt in official samples collected at Canadian tracks, but certificates of positive analysis will not be issued until regulations have been amended to include it in the schedule of drugs.

Under less than ideal circumstances, Kid Cruz will make his return to the races in Sunday’s $100,000 Evening Attire Stakes at Aqueduct, trainer Linda Rice said Wednesday.

Appealing Tale could move closer to another race at the graded stakes level with a win in a third-level optional $80,000 claimer at a mile in Friday’s second race at Santa Anita.