HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – With three racing surfaces to work with and an array of fresh faces set to join a trainer colony second to none during the winter season, there is little wonder why Mike Lakow, the track’s vice president of racing, is eagerly anticipating the 2021-22 Gulfstream Park Championship meeting, which opens Friday and runs through April 3.
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John T. von Stade, a former president of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and a longtime co-chairman of the Far Hills steeplechase meeting in New Jersey, died on Nov. 25 at his home in Maryland after a long illness, according to the Hall of Fame. He was 83.
Mon, 11/29/2021 - 12:16
DEL MAR, Calif. – Corniche, the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner and the leading candidate to be named the Eclipse Award winner as champion 2-year-old male, has been sent to WinStar Farm in Kentucky for a brief freshening, but the plan is for him to return to trainer Bob Baffert, said Marette Farrell, who purchased the colt for owners Speedway Stable.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The mutuel field, the 24th or “all others” option, was a huge favorite as expected when the first of five pools in the 2022 Kentucky Derby Future Wager closed Sunday at 6 p.m. Eastern following a four-day wagering window.
Sun, 11/28/2021 - 12:50
Morris Nicks, a longtime trainer in the Southwest and the father of prominent horseman Ralph Nicks, died Nov. 25 at his home in Waskom, Texas, according to his wife, Ellen.
Morris Nicks, who had been battling cancer, was 74.
His imprint on the sport includes being a mentor to his son, who trained champion Caledonia Road, as well as trainers Tim Ice, who trained champion Summer Bird, and Joey Foster, who is a multiple title winner at Louisiana Downs.
Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark., will put on a nine-race card for its season opener Friday with a program that will include the track’s first 2-year-old races since 1973.
The moving of the meet to a December start date versus its traditional January opening has paved the way for some 2-year-old racing at the start of the new season. The seventh race is a maiden special weight for 2-year-old fillies over six furlongs, and the featured $150,000 Advent for 2-year-olds at the same distance goes as the eighth on Friday.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario—Trainer Robert Tiller has made it official. The popular Pink Lloyd, perhaps the greatest sprinter in Canadian racing history, will retire after Saturday’s $175,000 Kennedy Road at Woodbine, a Grade 2 stakes the venerable 9-year-old has won twice before.
Two Kentucky-based trainers, Philip Bauer and Greg Foley, have been suspended by stewards for medication positives resulting from races run this summer at state tracks, according to rulings recently posted to the website of the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission.
Mon, 11/22/2021 - 17:32
Churchill Downs Inc. has reached an agreement to sell 115.7 acres of its Calder Casino property in Miami for $291 million, the company announced late on Monday.
The transaction, which encompasses much of the land that was used for the horse racing operations at the site when Churchill operated Calder Race Course, is expected to close in the first quarter of next year, according to Churchill. Under the agreement, the land is valued at approximately $2.5 million per acre.
Fair Grounds got hit by a hurricane but dodged a bullet.
The Churchill Downs Inc.-owned New Orleans racecourse opens its 2021-22 meet down two barns thanks to the summer winds of Hurricane Ida, but still has use of its turf course when the 80-day season begins Thursday.