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...
Running in Saturday night’s $175,000 John Battaglia Memorial certainly won’t offer pleasant racing conditions, but it does reward the winner with 20 qualifying points on the Road to the 2025 Kentucky Derby (G1). With the weather forecast calling for below-freezing temperatures and racing days a...
In the days leading up to Saturday’s $20 million Saudi Cup (G1) at King Abdulaziz Racecourse in Riyadh, usracing.com is posting profiles of the leading contenders. FOREVER YOUNG Forever Young opens his 4-year-old campaign in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, seeking to extend his unbeaten record to eight in r...
In the days leading up to Saturday’s $20 million Saudi Cup at King Abdulaziz Racecourse in Riyadh, usracing.com is posting profiles of the leading contenders. USHBA TESORO As a 6-year-old, he won the 2023 Dubai World Cup (G1), and last year, he finished second by a head in the Saudi Cup (G1) and s...
In the days leading up to Saturday’s $20 million Saudi Cup at King Abdulaziz Racecourse in Riyadh, usracing.com is posting profiles of the leading contenders. RATTLE N ROLL The lone U.S.-based entrant, Rattle N Roll, is not even trainer Kenny McPeek’s best horse in the stable. That would be Hors...
It’s been a brutal winter in many parts of the country. Hot Springs, Arkansas, gets a taste of the nasties this week. With a stretch of brutal cold enveloping the area, Oaklawn Park shuffled the schedule. Friday’s card was shifted to Saturday. The original Saturday program, including the $1.25 m...
For a horse race billed as the richest in the world, there sure doesn’t seem to be much buzz around the $20 million Saudi Cup (G1) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Saturday. While the winner pockets $10 million – yes, $10 million! -- only a few highly-regarded contenders were officially entered in th...
Count ‘em: Barnes, Citizen Bull, Getaway Car. Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert is up to three 3-year-olds in the latest usracing.com Kentucky Derby Top 10, with a bunch more in position to join them over the next few weeks. Unbeaten Barnes and once-beaten Citizen Bull remain 1-2, with Getaway Car ...
Baffert, Lukas, Baffert, Lukas, and at the wire, it was trainer Bob Baffert’s Getaway Car over D. Wayne Lukas’ Caldera by a head bob in the $400,000 Sunland Park Derby on Sunday. The finish of the Kentucky Derby prep races couldn’t have been any closer as Getaway Car and Caldera traded headbob...
Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen knew what needed to happen if his longshot Magnitude was to have a chance in the $500,000 Risen Star Stakes (G1) at Fair Grounds, one of the Kentucky Derby prep races for the weekend. Jockey Ben Curtis followed instructions as Magnitude broke best of all from the ...
Wayne Lukas began training quarter horses in 1976, eventually moved to thoroughbreds, and has 15 Triple Crown race wins on his Hall of Fame resume, including four in the Kentucky Derby. Even after he won his seventh Preakness Stakes (G1) with Seize the Grey a year ago, Lukas still recalls where it a...
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