Obsessive, reverent, laid back, indulgent -- the team behind the unbeaten mare reflects her quirky brilliance.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Though overshadowed by the Breeders’ Cup, Saturday’s graded stakes tripleheader is the second-biggest day of Aqueduct’s fall meet.
The Tempted and Nashua, a pair of one-mile stakes out of the chute for 2-year-olds, are carded as the fourth and sixth races; the Red Smith Handicap, the last graded turf stakes of the season for males in New York, is the seventh of eight races on the card.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Marty Wolfson believed First Passage rated a decent chance to pull a huge upset in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint on Friday at Churchill Downs, but with the filly highly likely to be excluded as an also-eligible, Wolfson has refocused his sights on the Grade 2 Chilukki Stakes on Saturday at Churchill.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Three times, Goldikova has flown across the Atlantic Ocean from France to the United States. Twice she has gone home a Breeders' Cup Mile winner. If it happens again this year - and this will almost certainly be Goldikova's last trip overseas - the mighty miler housed in a modest, plain-bay body will make history.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – It was a busy Thursday morning for Breeders’ Cup Turf favorite Workforce, who galloped and had a short breeze on the Churchill turf course. But the condition of that turf course still troubles Workforce’s connections, and Teddy Grimthorpe, racing manager for Khalid Abdullah’s Juddmonte Farms, said after training hours that Workforce’s participation in the Turf remained in doubt.
“It’s still a possibility,” Grimthorpe said when asked if Workforce still could be scratched because of what his connections consider to be hard ground.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – The three horses who finished in front of Clearance Clarence in the Grade 1 Norfolk Stakes at Hollywood Park on Oct. 2 – Jaycito, J P’s Gusto, and Riveting Reason – are entered in Saturday’s $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Churchill Downs.