The last time they met, American Cleopatra and Champagne Room were finishing second and third, respectively, to the blossoming Union Strike in the Del Mar Debutante (GI). But since their chief rival d...
Racing returns to the Great Race Place on Friday as the annual fall meet at Santa Anita Park gets underway and, for the next five weeks, racing at the most elite level will be conducted on a Thursday-...
This year’s Breeders’ Cup Sprint (GI) picture has been somewhat overshadowed by the goings-on in the other divisions, from Songbird in the 3-year-old fillies division, California Chrome becoming N...
The top three finishers from this year’s Kentucky Derby (GI) — Nyquist, Exaggerator and Gun Runner — all meet up for the last time as sophomores in the last major dirt derby of the year in Satur...
It’s hard to believe that this year’s Breeders’ Cup, the 33rd renewal of Racing’s Championship Day set for Nov. 4 and 5 at Santa Anita, is just more than six weeks away. Many runners looking t...
A top-notch group of eight older runners are set to race 12 furlongs in the $300,000 Northern Dancer Turf Stakes (GIT). Wake Forest, who is one of the two Chad Brown-trained runners, won the Man o’ ...
The other Breeders’ Cup “Win and You’re In” race on the Woodbine Card Saturday is the $300,000 Canadian Stakes (GIIT), a nine-furlong event that drew an international cast of seven looking for...
Big props to the racing office team at Woodbine, led by racing secretary Stuart Slagle, for Saturday’s awesome 12-race Woodbine Mile (GIT) Day card, which includes four graded stakes and a supportin...
Kaleem Shah’s Klimt officially claimed his spot as the West Coast’s leading contender for the Nov. 5 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (GI) after capturing Saturday’s $300,345 Del Mar Futurity (GI), the ...
The $200,000 John C. Mabee Stakes (GIIT), named for three-time Eclipse Award-winning breeder John Mabee, drew a field of 12 distaffers for the 1 1/8-mile event on Sunday at Del Mar. Mabee owned the re...