PHOENIX, Ariz. – Turf Paradise is a lot like the famous Mark Twain quote: “Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.”
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ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Off a heartbreaking loss in the Grade 3 Singspiel, English Conqueror drops into a conditioned allowance/optional-claimer on Saturday at Woodbine and should be favored in the 1 3/8-mile inner turf route.
A 7-year-old trained by Darwin Banach, English Conqueror lowered the 1 3/16-mile course record winning his season debut in a second-level allowance in June at Aqueduct, after which he finished fifth in the Grade 2 Bowling Green at Saratoga.
DEL MAR, Calif. – Breeders’ Cup overtones filter into the Grade 3 Bayakoa Stakes, a dirt mile for fillies and mares that is the first stakes on Breeders’ Cup Saturday at Del Mar.
Bayakoa entrants Alpha Bella, Hope Road, and Show Card were considered for BC races. Maybe next year. Desert Dawn, who finished sixth in the 2021 BC Juvenile Fillies and fifth in the 2023 BC Distaff, will try to end her million-dollar career with a Bayakoa upset.
His place in the record books secure and his confidence high, Bango returns to stakes company as he returns to the $300,000 Bet On Sunshine Stakes Saturday at Churchill Downs – seeking yet another return trip to the winner’s circle under the twin spires.
Big Everest will try to win the $150,000 Artie Schiller Stakes for the third year in a row on Saturday at Aqueduct and should be the one to catch in the one-mile turf route.
Normally a front-runner, Big Everest came from slightly off the pace to win last year’s Artie Schiller, three months after ending up fourth in the Oceanport Stakes at Monmouth. The 6-year-old is coming off another fourth-place finish in the Oceanport, which contained two future stakes winners, including He’spuregold, who’s also in Saturday’s field.
DEL MAR, Calif. – The list of countries reads like a deluxe worldwide cruise, or the itinerary of a high-ranking government official.
The United States, Italy, France, England, Ireland, Germany, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Czech Republic, Poland, Serbia, Dubai, and Saudi Arabia.
Those are the countries where jockey Antonio Fresu recalls riding in his 13-year career. A native of Italy, Fresu is more settled of late. In the last 18 months, Fresu has been based in Southern California, developing a reputation as a big-race rider.
Wed, 10/30/2024 - 20:15
DEL MAR, Calif. – Well, they’ve done it. Five Breeders’ Cup races Friday, nine more Saturday, and in every one of them at least one entrant from a distant land.
“World Championships” still rings hollow – a vast number of the world’s best Thoroughbreds don’t travel for the Breeders’ Cup – but the “world” part has come to fruition. And not just in the European sense, part of the Breeders’ Cup from the event’s inception. Nineteen horses shipped here from Japan, and the more you look at the races, the more it looks like they’ll have a say. The Europeans, too.
Wed, 10/30/2024 - 14:15
DEL MAR, Calif. – To win No. 7, their horse must overcome 12, but these are the two people who can make it happen.
Aidan O’Brien has trained a record six winners of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf, and jockey Ryan Moore has ridden all of them. It might take a Moore masterpiece to get Henri Matisse home Friday after the colt, to date the highest-quality horse in the race, drew post 13.
Wed, 10/30/2024 - 14:15
DEL MAR, Calif. – It was a big surprise to many when trainer Jorge Abreu sent out Jody’s Pride at 17-1 to finish second, beaten a neck by Just F Y I, in the 2023 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at Santa Anita. But it should come as little surprise to anyone if Abreu finally registers his first Breeders’ Cup victory when he returns in the same event Friday at Del Mar with likely favorite Scottish Lassie.