The Sudden Vacuum at the Top of the Derby Leaderboard The road to Churchill Downs took a violent turn last week when news broke regarding the juvenile champion, Ted Noffey. Todd Pletcher’s barn, usually a fortress of stability, faced a massive blow as bone bruising sidelined the heavy favorite. Th...
A year ago, Mystik Dan pulled off an upset in the Southwest Stakes (G3) over a muddy track at 11-1 odds and went on to win the Kentucky Derby (G1) at even longer odds (18-1). Could there be another Derby winner lurking in Saturday’s 1 1/16-mile, $1 million Southwest at Oaklawn Park? Grade 1 winner...
There was a lot of variety among the first six winners of the Pegasus World Cup Turf (G1). The classiest were Bricks and Mortar and Warm Heart. Chad Brown’s Bricks and Mortar began his 6-for-6 Horse of the Year campaign in the 2019 race. Then came last year’s heroine, Aidan O’Brien’s globetr...
Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Mystik Dan headlines the field for the $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational (G1), a race that lost a bit of luster with neither Bob Baffert’s Imagination nor $12 million earner Senor Buscador among the expected entries. The 2024 Derby winner is 8-1 on the Pegasus Wo...
Disco Time began his winning dance around the far turn and rallied down the stretch to edge Built by a neck in the $250,000 Lecomte Stakes (G3) on a rainy Saturday at Fair Grounds. The Lecomte is a Kentucky Derby (G1) points qualifier, with Disco Time picking up 20 points in improving his record to ...
Running Away lived up to her name by seizing the lead at the start and rolling to a gate-to-wire victory in the $125,000 Busanda Stakes on a wet Saturday at Aqueduct. Sent off as the 3-5 favorite in a field reduced to six after three scratches, Running Away ($5.10) broke smartly from the outside pos...
Fast track or wet track, Simply Joking remains serious about winning races at the Fair Grounds. The 3-year-old filly was first out of the gate and stayed in front all the way around a sloppy and sealed track for a 2 1/2-length victory over Bless the Broken in the $150,000 Silverbulletday Stakes on S...
The $125,000 Busanda Stakes at Aqueduct on Saturday, a 1 1/8-mile test for newly turned 3-year-old fillies with Ramify the 5-2 morning-line favorite, is a steppingstone on New York’s road to the Kentucky Oaks (G1) on May 2, Wide open field of nine talented fillies set to contest the Busanda Saturd...
The final invitation list to $3 million Pegasus World Cup (G1) now includes Newgrange, rounding out three weeks of determining the 12-horse field for the headline event of a showcase race program at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 25. Newgrange, who hasn’t raced in six months, joins a field that includes ...
The Fair Grounds' four-race prep series produced many Triple Crown contenders in recent years. The Lecomte Stakes (G3), its first graded event, will be run Saturday, and we’ll probably see a few in its field of 14 in the 3-year-old classics. Mandaloun finished third in the 2021 Lecomte before runn...
A field of eight newly minted sophomore fillies takes aim at the Kentucky Oaks (G1) on Saturday at the Fair Grounds when they go postward for the $150,000 Silverbulletday, a 1-mile, 70-yard race around two turns that carries with it qualifying points for the top five finishers. Three trainers send o...
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