Bob Baffert’s horses don’t stay long at the Jersey Shore, but when they show up for the $1 million Haskell Stakes (G1) at Monmouth Park the trainer is usually in for a big payday. The Hall of Famer has saddled nine Haskell winners, six runners-up, and has collected hefty bonus money from the tra...
Santa Anita Park is gearing up to take center stage in the thoroughbred racing world over the next 38 days, beginning this weekend and concluding with the 40th Breeders’ Cup. The sport is a $31 million, 14-race, two-day extravaganza showcasing champions and challengers from around the globe. All ...
Despite a tropical storm, a sloppy and sealed racetrack, a couple of front-runners came through with victories in $1 million races at Parx Racing. With Tropical Storm Ophelia leaving the track a sloppy mess on its biggest day of the year Saturday (Sept. 23), Saudi Crown was bet down to the 6-5 favor...
With a victory in the $1 million Cotillion (G1) at Parx Racing on Saturday, Pretty Mischievous would move into position to join an exclusive group of 3-year-old fillies. The Cotillion, first run in 1976, has been won by some fabulous fillies over the past two decades, including Ashado (2004), Havre ...
In case you hadn’t noticed, jockey Tyler Gaffalione is on an amazing roll as he continues his run as the top rider at Kentucky Downs and Churchill Downs, with his next stop Keeneland. His latest feat occurred Sunday (Sept. 17) when he won five races -- five in a row, no less! – capping off [&hel...
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 […]...
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