Pierro leads Australian sires by mares bred in 2014
Australian champion Pierro was Australia’s most active stallion during the 2014 Southern Hemisphere breeding season, covering 220 mares in his second year at stud.
DRF Breeding StaffFeb 02, 2015
Australian champion Pierro was Australia’s most active stallion during the 2014 Southern Hemisphere breeding season, covering 220 mares in his second year at stud.
Before another winter storm hit the area late that night, it was a busy Sunday morning of training at Belmont Park that included Classy Class, c breezing for Saturday’s Grade 3 Withers Stakes at Aqueduct.
A winter of discontent for most horsemen in New York has been far less so for trainer Gary Gullo, who is enjoying arguably one of the best meets of his career through the first two months of Aqueduct’s winter season.
American Pharoah, last year's champion male 2-year-old, had his first work since late October on Monday at Santa Anita, where he went three furlongs in 36.20 seconds with jockey Martin Garcia.
Multiple stakes winners Saratoga Snacks and Readtheprospectus return to action in a salty New York-bred allowance race that highlights Wednesday’s eight-race program at Aqueduct.
Brad Free's horses to watch at Santa Anita for the week of Feb. 2.
As Wicked Strong continues to prepare for his return to action next month, his similarly accomplished 4-year-old stablemate, V. E. Day, returned to the Jimmy Jerkens barn Saturday at the Palm Meadows training center.
Lou Guida passed away a few days ago. He made news and at times he was the news. Such was the reason that many, including this author, looked at him as an interloper, a man that had no knowledge of the protocol of the sport but took the headlines and ran with them. It turns out the money spent and the influence he had was in fact almost always positive for the sport and benefited a large majority favorably.
Trainer Wesley Ward sent out a pair of 3-year-olds, Asia and City of Vengeance, to win their career debuts on turf here last weekend. But it was a performance by another 3-year-old in his barn, The Great War, on Saturday night at Turfway Park that has the former rider most excited.
After this, their paths likely will diverge. But with the Donn Handicap being the lone viable option for a while, the 4-year-old WinStar Farm standouts Constitution and Commissioner will race against each other Saturday at Gulfstream Park.