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...
*Originally published in 2017, published again today in memory of Funny Cide, who passed away at his home at the Kentucky Horse Park on July 16, joining Wes Lanter, who died in December of 2o22. We honor both Wes and Funny Cide with this memory. Fourteen years ago, a humble New York-bred gelding nam...
For the second year in a row, it was trainer Chad Brown’s longest shot of his four entries that came through in the $500,000 Diana (G1) at Saratoga on Saturday. With four of the five starters in the field for the 1 1/8-mile race for older fillies and mares on turf, Whitebeam at 7-1 nosed […...
Let’s just call this the $500,000 ‘Betting Chad’ Diana Stakes. As usual, trainer Chad Brown will saddle most of the field in the Grade 1 Diana for older fillies and mares going 1 1/8 miles on the turf Saturday at Saratoga. Five horses are entered, four of them trained by Brown, who has won the...
Here’s an example of what can happen on any given day during the summer season at Saratoga Race Course: On July 24, 2017, in the day’s first race, a horse appropriately named Perplexed left bettors dumbfounded when he took the lead by the eighth pole and won a $30,000 maiden claimer – at odds ...
Once the Saratoga summer season opens on Thursday (July 13), those fortunate enough to pass through the iconic entranceway to the historic track will straightaway encounter not only cool breezeways, decades-old stairways, special events almost every day, giveaways, runaway (winners) and, after Openi...
How did How Did He Do That do it? Well, the $300,000 Iowa Derby finished up something like this: One in Vermillion held the lead in the stretch, How Did He Do It pulled even just outside of One in Vermillion, and Heroic Move rallied to catch the leaders. The finish was a nail-biter, and […]...
On the penultimate day of the Belmont Park fall/summer meet, a pair of Grade 1s produced a big payoff in the $500,000 Belmont Oaks Invitational (G1) and a predictable finish in the $750,000 Belmont Derby Invitational (G1). In the 1 ¼-mile Oaks on Saturday (July 8), 15-1 longshot Aspen Grove ($33.40...
Now that Bob Baffert has his 3-year-olds back in his care, there’s no telling how many victories the Hall of Fame trainer will pile up over the summer. He won a record-extending eighth Preakness (G1) with National Treasure on May 20, then won the Dwyer (G3) with Fort Bragg on July 1. Next up is [&...
As usual, European runners are all set to hit the turf at Belmont Park on Saturday (July 8) in a pair of lucrative Grade 1 stakes – the $750,000 Belmont Derby Invitational and the $500,000 Belmont Oaks Invitational. The Belmont Derby for 3-year-olds includes Ireland-bred The Foxes, and Great Brita...
The past two months have not gone well for Saffie Joseph, Jr., the Florida-based trainer looking forward to getting back to the winner’s circle this weekend. On May 4, two days before Lord Miles would have been Joseph’s first starter in the Kentucky Derby (G1), the trainer was suspended indefini...
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