There is one lesson I can glean from Saturday’s Hambletonian. And that is that the playing field is level. How else can we explain how a longtime horseman, with zero Hambletonian experience, could win the race with his very first horse entered in the classic? Better yet, a homebred.
Saratoga spot plays, live longshots, and vulnerable favorites for Wednesday, August 7, 2013.
Silver Ray, winner of the Grade 3 Hoist The Flag Stakes and sire of 13 crops, will be sent to Old Friends Equine Retirement in Lexington, Ky. after being purchased for $30 out of a livestock auction in Mira Loma, Calif.
One look was all it took for apprentice Taylor Rice. In her first outing, Rice kept her mount, Giggle Fit, in front all the way for a nearly four-length win at Presque Isle Downs on Sunday.
Bob Pandolfo's Sharp Horses and Track Trends report featuring horses from Balmoral, Monticello, Northfield, Yonkers and others.
Horses to watch from Monticello Raceway.
Nipissing, winner of the Woodbine Oaks, had to be euthanized late Sunday afternoon after breaking down during the running of the Wonder Where Stakes.
L.R. “Bob” French Jr., a successful owner and breeder of Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horses, died August 2 at the age of 86.
Michael Hammersly's weekly stakes recap, which this week includes the Whitney Handicap, Vanderbilt, and West Virginia Derby, among others.
Ride On Curlin, a sharp Ellis Park maiden winner who had been the target of several high-profile would-be buyers, has been entered in the $60,000 Prairie Meadows Juvenile Mile Stakes on Saturday night, the day after his jockey, Calvin Borel, will be inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
