Can the Rebel Stakes Winner Handle the Distance? The Road to the Kentucky Derby just took a sharp, unexpected turn in the Ozarks. While the horse racing world fixed its gaze on the heavy hitters in Florida and New York, a sleeper cell from the Todd Pletcher barn detonated at Oaklawn Park. Class Pres...
As we rev up on the road to the 150th Kentucky Derby (G1), it seems like a good time to celebrate the 20 winners who are still with us, either as stallions, in training, or fully retired at farms in Kentucky and Japan, Turkey and Uruguay, New Mexico and New York, and Oregon and Pennsylvania. [&helli...
She’s been big-time for a long time, and 2023 was Linda Rice’s best year ever. Five consecutive New York Racing Association training titles. Graded stakes victories with Joey Freshwater, Mommasgottarun and Pioneering Spirit after claiming them. More than $10.3 million in purses, a personal best....
Hey! Hey! No better way to kick off the South Florida road to the Kentucky Derby (G1) than with the $150,000 Mucho Macho Man Stakes at Gulfstream Park on Monday (Jan. 1). The race is named for Mucho Macho Man, a Florida bred who won the 2013 Breeder’ Cup Classic (G1) for Reeves Thoroughbred Racing...
Horseplayers take note: In 2024, more than 77% of the races on the New York Racing Association (NYRA) circuit will take place at Aqueduct Racetrack. With Belmont Park undergoing massive renovations that likely won’t be completed for two more years, NYRA announced this week that it will conduct 195...
It was a record-setting opening day at The Great Race Place. Santa Anita Park was bustling with bettors – a crowd of 37,143 contributed to a record opening day handle of $18.3 million -- as Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert delivered a 1-2 punch in the $300,000 Malibu (G1) on Tuesday, one of three ...
As usual, a stellar opening-day card awaits horseplayers at Santa Anita Park on Tuesday, featuring three Grade 1s, three Grade 2s and lots of good cheer for the 89th season at the track at the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. The weather outside looks delightful, and the 11-race program drew ...
Once again, a Steve Asmussen trainee came through for the Hall of Famer at the Fair Grounds, with Track Phantom going on to a 1 1/4-length victory over Snead in the $100,000 Gun Runner Stakes on Saturday. The race, in its third year, is named for Asmussen’s 2017 Horse of the Year, who won a [&hell...
Santa Anita’s Classic Meet kicks off the historic track’s 88th season of racing on Tuesday with three stakes events – the $300,000 Malibu Stakes (G1), the $300,000 La Brea Stakes (G1) and the $300,000 American Oaks (G1T) – taking the spotlight. Three other $200,000 stakes – the Mathis Mil...
Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen has used the Fair Grounds as a proving ground for quite a few of his 3-year-olds that went on to run in the Kentucky Derby (G1). Among them was champion Gun Runner, who won the 2016 Risen Star (G2) and the Louisiana Derby (G2) at the New Orleans track […]...
It was a good day at Los Alamitos Race Course for the owner of the track and the vice president of its racing association – their horse Wynstock won the $200,000 Los Alamitos Futurity (G2) at odds of 13-1. Neither Dr. Edward Allred nor F. Jack Liebau were too worried about a stewards’ inquiry af...
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