In the days leading up to the 157th running of the $2 million Belmont Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course, the team at usracing.com is publishing profiles of the 3-year-olds in the field. Profiles will be updated with post positions and track odds following the June 2 draw. SOVEREIGNTY Looki...
He’s won many of the biggest races in the world over and over again. The Derby, the Preakness, the Belmont, the Breeders’ Cup Classic. He’s won Grade 1 races multiple times in no less than nine states and has four victories in the Dubai World Cup. Bob Baffert, Hall of Famer trainer of two Trip...
And they’re racing again at Churchill Downs. Home of the Kentucky Derby (G1), Churchill Downs returned to live racing Thursday (Sept. 14) after a rash of horse deaths from May 2-May 27 – including two on Derby Day – forced the track to move the rest of its spring/summer meet to Ellis Park. The...
We’re about seven weeks out from the Breeders’ Cup, Thoroughbred racing’s $31 million, 14-race, two-day celebration featuring many of the world’s best horses vying for year-end championships. The $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1), as usual, is the grand finale in the 40th year of the e...
The Del Mar Futurity (G1) dominance continues for Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert. Once again, Baffert finished the Del Mar meet strong with his 2-year-old Prince of Monaco winning the $300,500 Del Mar Futurity by three-quarters of a length over stablemate Mirahmadi on Sunday to close out the summe...
It was a Breeders’ Cup qualifying weekend in Kentucky and Ireland, but we’re going to single out a 2-year-old gelding who won the $102,000 Smoke Glacken Stakes at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, New Jersey. Book’em Danno! Yes, that’ the name of the Derek Ryan trainee, referring to the catch phra...
The long road to the 2024 Kentucky Derby (G1) opens with the Iroquois Stakes (G3) at Churchill Downs on Sept. 16 -- the first of 37 qualifying races that will determine the field for the Run for the Roses on the first Saturday in May. Churchill Downs made a few tweaks to the schedule by […]...
Sunday’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 to Santa Anita Park (and some to Los Alamitos), seven juveniles will square off over seven furlongs in an attempt to claim the title as the West Coas...
Get ready for another turf extravaganza at Kentucky Downs on Saturday (Sept. 9) – six $1 million races, two of them “Win and You’re In’’ Breeders’ Cup automatic qualifiers, and an overflow field of 16 entered for the $1.7 million Kentucky Turf Cup (G2). The Turf Cup at 1 ½ miles is load...
Irad Ortiz, Jr., Seth Klarman’s Klaravich Stables easy winners as top jockey, owner After 40 days of racing at Saratoga, jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr. and owner Seth Klarman’s Klaravich Stables were runaway title winners, while the trainers’ crown ended in a dead heat between Linda Rice and Chad Brow...
Trainer Gary Contessa, who opened the 2023 Saratoga Race Course meet with a 21-1 upset in the Schuylerville (G3), closed the 40-day summer season when Nutella Fella posted a stunning 54-1 upset in the $300,00 Hopeful (G1) on Monday. Under Mike Venezia Award winning jockey Junior Alvarado, Nutella Fe...
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