No active trainer has had more wins in the Spinaway Stakes (G1) than Hall of Famer Todd Pletcher, who has six victories in the 7-furlong race for 2-year-old fillies to be contested Saturday on closing weekend at Saratoga Race Course. The $300,000 Spinaway – named for the juvenile filly who in 1880...
There is nobody who stood taller in the racing world than Ron Turcotte, the Hall of Fame jockey who passed away today at age 84, one month after celebrating his birthday. The news was announced by the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in a statement that read, “Ron was a legendary rider [...
Named after the stalwart New York-bred who won at least one race at Saratoga each year from 1987-1994, this year’s $750,000 Fourstardave drew a field of 10 turf specialists headed by multiple graded stakes winner Johannes. One of five graded stakes on Saturday, Whitney Day, the Fourstardave (G1) a...
A trio of Grade 1 winners go at it in the $500,000 Coaching Club American Oaks (G1) on Saturday at Saratoga Race Course, with 8-5 favorite Immersive trying to rebound from her only defeat. The Godolphin-owned filly, 4-for-4 before losing by a neck to Take Charge Milady in the Monomoy Girl Stakes at ...
Saratoga Race Course was first dubbed the "Graveyard of Favorites" almost a century ago, probably after Jim Dandy surprised 1930 Triple Crown winner Gallant Fox at 100-1. And while there have been many memorable upsets since then - think Secretariat losing the 1973 Whitney Stakes to Onion, or Americ...
D. Wayne Lukas, the Hall of Fame trainer whose passion for perfection forever changed the sport of thoroughbred horse racing, has died, the Lukas family said in a statement issued Sunday by Churchill Downs. Lukas was 89. The family statement, addressed to the Racing Community, began “It is wi...
Arguably the most competitive race on the Belmont Stakes card Saturday, the $500,000 Woody Stephens Stakes (G1) for 3-year-olds going 7 furlongs features a field of 10, six of whom stepped briefly on the road to the Kentucky Derby (G1), two who actually ran (albeit poorly) in the Derby, a couple of ...
She Feels Pretty goes for her fourth straight victory as the heavy favorite in the $750,000 New York Stakes while Excellent Truth and Choisya meet again in the $500,000 Just A Game, a pair of Grade 1 events for turf fillies and mares on Friday, Day 3 of the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival at Saratoga...
By 2015, in the years since Affirmed added the Belmont Stakes (G1) to his earlier victories in the Kentucky Derby (G1) and Preakness Stakes (G1) back in 1978, an even dozen horses had gone postward in the 1 ½- mile race at Belmont Park with the chance to become racing’s next Triple Crown hero, on...
Good Cheer? Great Cheer? Perfect Cheer! Cruising home over a sloppy track at Churchill Downs, Good Cheer extended her record to a 7-for-7 Friday afternoon with a seemingly effortless 2 1/4-length victory in the $1.5 million Kentucky Oaks (G1) for 3-year-old fillies. Godolphin Filly captured the lili...
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