Del Mar Keys, B's and C's: August 18
Del Mar Pick Three plays by Brad Free and Michael Hammersly for Sunday, August 18.
DRF StaffAug 17, 2013
Del Mar Pick Three plays by Brad Free and Michael Hammersly for Sunday, August 18.
Dashing Blade, a three-time Group 1 winner and leading sire in Germany, was euthanized at age 26 due to neurological problems, Racing Post reports.
Saratoga exotics play by Marty McGee for Sunday, August 18.
Brewster Smith's analysis of the Tuesday 8/20 card at Yonkers Raceway.
Greg Gangle's analysis of the Monday 8/19 card at Mohawk Racetrack.
Matt Rose's analysis of the Monday 8/19 card at Yonkers Raceway.
Catching up with Wando, the most recent winner of the Canadian Triple Crown.
After winning Friday’s Yaddo Stakes for New York-breds, Dayatthespa will target the Grade 1, $400,000 First Lady Stakes at Keeneland on Oct. 5.
While Palace Malice, Verrazano and Orb will garner most of the attention coming into the Grade 1 Travers, a couple of 3-year-olds who figure to be flying under the radar, Moreno and War Dancer, had their final tune-ups for Saratoga’s marquee event here on Saturday.
In a long and extraordinarily consistent stud career, Green Desert sired 99 stakes winners to date (with eight 2-year-olds still in the pipeline) from 1,238 foals (8 percent), including 12 Group 1 winners, but none of them was an obvious successor at stud. Nevertheless, Green Desert has developed into one of the best sires of sires of the era, with his sons Oasis Dream, Cape Cross, Invincible Spirit, Desert Sun, and Volksraad all established as top sires somewhere in the world.