Prince Faisal Bin Khaled Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud has purchased a share in Breeders’ Cup Classic winner White Abarrio as part of new partnership with C2 Racing Stable, according to C2 Racing owner and racing manager Mark Cornett. White Abarrio will make his next start in the $20 million Saudi Cup on Feb. 24.
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Stuart S. Janney III, the longtime owner and breeder who is the chairman of The Jockey Club, has been selected to receive the Eclipse Award of Merit, considered one of the highest honors in racing, according to the administrators of the awards.
Thu, 01/18/2024 - 17:36
The California Authority of Racing Fairs presented a broad outline to the California Horse Racing Board on Thursday to relocate year-round racing in Northern California to Sacramento or Pleasanton as early as September following the planned closure of Golden Gate Fields in the Bay Area in June.
Tom Hammond, the veteran broadcaster who spent decades with NBC as an announcer for its Triple Crown and Breeders’ Cup broadcasts, along with other high-profile sports, will receive a Special Eclipse Award for Career Excellence, the administrators of the Eclipse Awards announced Thursday.
The late gelding Danjer, the winner of two leading stakes at Remington Park in the spring, was named 2023 Quarter Horse World Champion at a ceremony at the Heritage Place sales pavilion in Oklahoma City on Wednesday evening.
The award comes seven months after Danjer died of an aneurysm while based at Ruidoso Downs.
The first Kentucky Derby future wager pool of 2024 will be held this weekend, with little on the schedule to influence the odds of the 39 individual betting interests.
As is customary for the first future bet of the year, the heavy morning-line favorite, at 7-5, is the “all others” entry, which gives a bettor all of the horses from the foal crop of 2021 that are not listed as individual horses. That’s roughly 17,800 horses, if you want to do the math.
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 13:05
Southern California tracks will be forced to reduce prize money through 2024, continuing a trend that began last spring, amid a decline in handle that has created ongoing purse overpayments at Del Mar and Santa Anita, according to a letter track officials sent to the California Horse Racing Board earlier this month.
Track Phantom is not hiding in the shadows. After acing his stakes debut Dec. 23 in the Gun Runner Stakes, Track Phantom wheels back Jan. 20 at Fair Grounds to make his first 3-year-old start in the Grade 3, $200,000 Lecomte Stakes.
The 1 1/16-mile Lecomte is the first of six 42-point qualifying races on Churchill Downs’ Road to the Kentucky Derby and is the last of 13 races on Fair Grounds’ second major card of its season. The Lecomte winner gets 20 Derby points, which, historically, gives a horse a solid chance to get into the Derby in some years.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Ruby Nell, the winner of three stakes in her last four starts, will have a new rider for the Grade 3 Pegasus Filly and Mare Turf Invitational at Gulfstream Park on January 27.
Frankie Dettori will ride Ruby Nell in place of Edwin Maldonado, trainer Richard Mandella said on Sunday.
Maldonado, who has ridden Ruby Nell in her last six starts, sustained a shoulder injury during morning workouts on Jan. 6. While Maldonado plans to resume riding on Saturday, Mandella proceeded with the jockey change.
ARCADIA, Calif. - The last time The Chosen Vron and Kings River Knight met they finished a nose apart when first and second in the Sensational Star Stakes for turf sprinters at Santa Anita last March.
Both have since have outstanding careers, including stakes wins a half-hour apart against statebreds on Saturday at Santa Anita.
The wins may lead to a rematch between the 6-year-old geldings in the $100,000 Tiznow Stakes for California-breds at a mile at Santa Anita on Feb. 19, a race The Chosen Vron won by 6 1/2 lengths last year.