Unbridled's Song a game changer
Unbridled's Song became a highly successful sire at Taylor Made Farm, and changed the lives of Buzz Chace and the Taylor family as he rose to prominence.
Glenye Cain OakfordAug 01, 2013
Unbridled's Song became a highly successful sire at Taylor Made Farm, and changed the lives of Buzz Chace and the Taylor family as he rose to prominence.
The $100,000 Prelude at Louisiana Downs on Saturday is about more than just purse money. The race is a prep for next month’s Grade 2, $500,000 Super Derby, and the winner will receive a fees-paid berth into the richest race of the meet.
On Saturday, Saratoga commemorates the actual 150th anniversary of the first race ever run here with a fantastic edition of the Grade 1, $750,000 Whitney led by defending Whitney and Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Fort Larned, who is attempting to become the first horse to repeat in the Whitney since Discovery won three straight runnings from 1934-36.
Backseat Memories and Grand Tito dead-heated for a stakes win in their first meeting. The rematch is Saturday, when the horses break side-by-side in the $75,000 Naked Greed at Calder.
Points Offthebench’s game score in last Sunday’s Grade 1 Bing Crosby at Del Mar gave trainer Tim Yakteen his first top-level stakes win and heralded the emergence of another high-caliber runner for California stallion Benchmark.
Sky Lantern, Europe’s leading 3-year-old filly, will try to beat older rivals for the first time when she starts Saturday at Goodwood in the Group 1, $302,860 Nassau Stakes.
Game On Dude, the top older horse in California this year with four stakes wins, worked five furlongs in 1:01.40 on Thursday in preparation for the Pacific Classic at Del Mar on Aug. 25.
Three hours after the Whitney Invitational Handicap at Saratoga is official on Saturday, and the celebrating principals are safely tucked into Siro’s, Del Mar will offer a bookend of sorts with the $300,000 Clement L. Hirsch, a Grade 1 enterprise for fillies and mares.
Prairie Meadows showcases Iowa-bred talent Saturday with its annual Iowa Classic Night, a series of seven divisional stakes worth over $500,000 in total prize money.
Darley shuttle stallion Exceed And Excel has finished the 2012-13 season as Australia's leading general sire.