The future is now at Saratoga Race Course. Welcome to the Fourth of July racing festival at Saratoga, an inaugural event most figure by 2027 will become the opening week of an extended summer season at the upstate New York track. With the new Belmont Park on target to host racing again by the fall [...
The Pegasus World Cup Invitational (G1) couldn’t have had a more auspicious beginning than it did in January 2017. Superstars Arrogate and California Chrome, who had run 1-2, respectively, in a thrilling Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1), drew the racing world’s attention to Gulfstream Park. The rema...
The soft-spoken guy from South Dakota guided Cigar through a record-tying 16-race winning streak in 1995 and 1996, and two years later Bill Mott made more history. He was only 45 in 1998 when he became the youngest trainer ever inducted into the Hall of Fame. A quarter of a century later, at 70, he ...
As expected, the $200,000 Lecomte (G3) was a two-horse race, with second betting choice Track Phantom once again defeating favorite Nash at the Fair Grounds on Saturday. Track Phantom turned aside 1-2 favorite Nash in the Gun Runner on Dec. 23 (Nash was third). This time, Track Phantom led at every ...
Last time out, it was Track Phantom over a fading Nash in the Gun Runner at the Fair Grounds. On Saturday, the Kentucky Derby (G1) prospects go at it again in the $200,000 Lecomte (G3). A field of eight was entered for the 1 1/16-mile prep that offers Derby qualifying points of 20-10-6-4-2 to the [&...
The La Canada Stakes – traditionally the second of the three-race La Canada Series for older fillies and mares who prefer a route of ground – has been set for Saturday at Santa Anita Park the names of six distaffers were entered to race the 1 1/16 miles over the main track, including Midnight Me...
Gulfstream Park is gearing up for Pegasus World Cup Day, touted by track owner The Stronach Group as “South Florida’s leading luxury sports and lifestyle event of the year.” True or not, the $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational (G1) is the centerpiece on the Jan. 27 racing card, which als...
The $100,000 Busanda Stakes for 3-year-old fillies on Saturday is the midway point on the New York road to the Kentucky Oaks (G1), and trainer Ken McPeek hopes Shimmering Allure can live up to her role as the 4-5 morning-line favorite. The most seasoned and accomplished filly in the compact field of...
In the runup to the 150th Kentucky Derby (G1), usracing.com presents our first Top 10 contenders list. Rankings will be updated periodically as Derby preps with qualifying points are contested over the next 3 ½ months. The points pick up, the prize money picks up, and the pace picks up in the next ...
Talk about a pay raise! The purse for the 150th Kentucky Derby (G1) has been boosted to $5 million, a great leap from $3 million since 2019. The breakdown translates to the winner earning $3.1 million -- $100,000 more than last year’s entire purse – the runner-up collecting $1 million, third pla...
Horseplayers would be wise to consider a Bob Baffert exacta the next time a graded stakes race for 2- or 3-year-olds is run in California. Five times in the past five months, the Hall of Fame trainer has finished 1-2, most recently with 3-year-olds Muth ($2.80 on a $2 win bet) and Pilot Commander in...
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