By Margaret Ransom It’s hard to believe it’s been 11 years since the great Zenyatta won the race that would eventually bear her name, using the Lady’s Secret as a springboard to victory in the 2...
By Margaret Ransom The main event on the first Saturday of the fall meeting at Santa Anita is the $300,000 Awesome Again Stakes (GI), a “Win & You’re In” Breeders’ Cup Challenge race that ...
By Margaret Ransom Also on the Friday card is the second running of the $300,000 American Pharoah Stakes (GI), which is set to be run for the 51st time this year. Originally contested as the Norfolk S...
By Margaret Ransom The Breeders’ Cup will certainly be the focus of the racing action on the opening weekend of the autumn race meeting at Santa Anita Park. Among the five Breeders’ Cup Challeng...
By Margaret Ransom Live racing returns to Santa Anita on Friday with a nine-race card and an immeasurable amount of hope from the entire industry that last winter — which saw 30 horse deaths ove...
By Margaret Ransom As the herd of nearly 50 severely neglected horses – almost all off the track thoroughbreds – evacuated in late May from the San Jacinto, California, property known as the Calif...
By Margaret Ransom When Madame Dancealot made her way to post in the 2018 Churchill Distaff Turf Mile (G2T) on Kentucky Derby Day, with jockey Corey Nakatani attired in the black, orange and blue si...
By Margaret Ransom Monday’s $300,000 Runhappy Del Mar Futurity (G1) marks closing day of the prestigious summer racing season at Del Mar, but before heading back north, eight juveniles will square o...
By Margaret Ransom After an amazing summer so far, the Labor Day weekend marks the closing days of the summer racing season at Del Mar. On Saturday, fillies take the spotlight in the $300,000 Del Mar ...
By Margaret Ransom A new rider will be aboard Catalina Cruiser in Saturday’s $200,000 Pat O’Brien Stakes (G2), but the way he’s been running it may not matter who’s aboard. However, with regul...
