Echo Sound has made two wrong moves in her career, both coming when she ran back relatively quickly compared to the rest of her schedule. Following one such defeat last out in the Grade 1 Test Stakes, Echo Sound is back at her old Kentucky home as a standout in the Grade 3, $300,000 Dogwood Stakes for 3-year-old fillies going seven furlongs on Saturday at Churchill Downs.
Trainer Paulo Lobo has several reasons to believe Saturday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Greenwood Cup at Parx Racing is a good spot for the Brazilian-bred No Bien Ni Mal to make his North American stakes debut.
“This horse seems to me like he would love the distance,” Lobo said, referring to the 1 1/2 miles of the Greenwood Cup. “Having raced in Brazil, he’s custom made for this kind of sandy track.”
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Paramount Prince, the 2023 King’s Plate winner, meets reigning Canadian champion male 3-year-old Dresden Row and six others in Saturday’s Grade 3, $150,000 Durham Cup at Woodbine.
Paramount Prince was the champion male sophomore in 2023 and was voted the Sovereign Award for champion older male on the main track last year, during which he won the Grade 2 Seagram Cup and Grade 3 Dominion Day
If not for the stretch-running heroics of Journalism in both the Preakness and Haskell Stakes, Gosger might be a two-time Grade 1 winner and regarded as the second-best 3-year-old in training behind only dual classic winner Sovereignty.
With Sovereignty in upstate New York and Journalism in Southern California on Saturday, Gosger has his best chance to secure his first Grade 1 victory in the $1 million Pennsylvania Derby at Parx Racing.
According to trainer Dino Condilenios, when Jordan Froelich began buying racehorses, his mom was not impressed.
Froelich’s mother’s name was Karen, so when he purchased a filly at the 2024 Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society’s yearling and mixed sale, he named her – what else? – Karensnotimpressed.
Trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. will wield a powerful hand while seeking his third consecutive victory in the Grade 3 Princess Rooney on Saturday at Gulfstream Park. The track’s perennial leading trainer will run three of the seven likely starters in the seven-furlong Rooney, which is the lone Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series event to be decided Gulfstream in 2025.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – A decade ago, trainer Linda Rice and owner Sheila Rosenblum campaigned La Verdad to the female sprint championship. Now, the trainer-owner combination are campaigning Arinata, a granddaughter of La Verdad, who is trying to make her mark on a different surface.
Despite not having a turf pedigree, Arinata was a visually impressive debut winner of a 5 1/2-furlong turf race by 1 1/2 lengths in handy fashion on Sept. 1, closing day of the Saratoga meet.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Leah Gyarmati thought about walking away. But the allure of the racetrack and the continued desire to make her mentor – the late Hall of Fame trainer Allen Jerkens – proud wouldn’t let her.
Thus, more than 19 months after voluntarily surrendering her New York trainer’s license, Gyarmati is back training. When she saddles Winegold in Friday’s second race at Aqueduct, a $50,000 maiden-claiming race on the turf, Gyarmati will be starting her first horse since Feb. 11, 2024, and resuming her 25-year training career.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Rebel’s Romance, the two-time Breeders’ Cup Turf winner, and El Cordobes, winner of the Grade 1 Sword Dancer last month at Saratoga, were scheduled to arrive in New York on Thursday and both will make their next starts in the Grade 1, $500,000 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic at Aqueduct on Sept. 27.
The $150,000 Presque Isle Mile, which headlines Friday night’s undercard stakes, is actually contested at 1 1/16 miles due to the track configuration. Regardless of the specifics, the overflow field of older horses has come up exceptionally strong this year. Graded stakes winners Encino, Trademark, and Boppy O, and Grade 1-placed The Wine Steward come to town to take on locally seasoned runners like Grounded, Surly Furious, and Twilight Dancer.
