Thu, 11/04/2010 - 13:24

Zenyatta's people: Exercise rider Steve Willard

Obsessive, reverent, laid back, indulgent -- the team behind the unbeaten mare reflects her quirky brilliance.

Thu, 11/04/2010 - 13:24

Repole hit it big on and off track

Barbara D. Livingston
Mike Repole, who sold his business for $4.1 billion, bought Uncle Mo – reluctantly – for $220,000.

As an entrepreneur, Mike Repole was always in search of the next big thing. On more than one occasion, he found it.

As a Thoroughbred owner, Repole is in search of the sport’s next big horse. In Uncle Mo, he may have found that, too.

Thu, 11/04/2010 - 13:07

Zenyatta's people: Trainer John Shirreffs and racing manager Dottie Ingordo

Barbara D. Livingston

Obsessive, reverent, laid back, indulgent -- the team behind the unbeaten mare reflects her quirky brilliance.

Thu, 11/04/2010 - 13:03

Nashua, Red Smith among graded stakes on Aqueduct card

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.

Thu, 11/04/2010 - 12:49

Zenyatta's people: Owners Jerry and Ann Moss

Barbara D. Livingston

Obsessive, reverent, laid back, indulgent -- the team behind the unbeaten mare reflects her quirky brilliance.

Thu, 11/04/2010 - 12:48

First Passage looks strong in backup spot

Jim Lisa
First Passage was unlikely to get a spot in the Filly and Mare Sprint, but she is among the Chilukki favorites.

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.

Thu, 11/04/2010 - 12:41

Zenyatta's people: Jockey Mike Smith

Obsessive, reverent, laid back, indulgent -- the team behind the unbeaten mare reflects her quirky brilliance.

Thu, 11/04/2010 - 12:28

Goldikova looking like a breed apart in Breeders' Cup Mile

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.

Thu, 11/04/2010 - 12:14

Workforce gallops, breezes but is still not definite for Turf

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.

Thu, 11/04/2010 - 11:01

Clearance Clarence will see if lessons pay off in Real Quiet

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.