Comprehensive Overview of the 2026 City of Hope Mile Stakes Field Santa Anita Park hosts a thrilling renewal of the Grade II $200,000 City of Hope Mile Stakes, featuring six elite turf runners clashing over the firm Arcadia grass. Scheduled as Race 3 with a 2:06 PM PT post time, this one-mile turf s...
Previewing the 2026 City of Hope Mile Stakes at Santa Anita Park The West Coast autumn turf season reaches a fever pitch at Santa Anita Park as six elite grass runners gather for Race 3, the Grade II 2026 City of Hope Mile Stakes. Carrying a handsome $200,000 purse, this one-mile contest across the ...
The $200,000 Zenyatta Stakes (G2) at Santa Anita on Sunday is a 1 1/16-mile dirt race for fillies and mares, with the winner earning an automatic berth in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1) at Keeneland on Oct. 31. Post time for the Zenyatta, race 8, is 7:30 p.m. ET. Zenyatta History The race began in...
The $200,000 Santa Anita Sprint Championship (G2) is Sunday’s 6-furlong dirt sprint feature and is a Breeders’ Cup Challenge “Win, and You’re In” qualifier for the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) at Keeneland on Oct. 31. The race began in 1983 as the Ancient Title Stakes at Hollywoo...
Belmont Park canceled live horse racing for this Saturday and Sunday (Sept. 26 and 27) because of a strengthening nor’easter expected to bring heavy rain, strong winds, and coastal flooding to Long Island and the New York metro area. The New York Racing Association (NYRA) announced the decision to...
Whenever you size up the past performances of a New York turf stakes for fillies and mares, one name comes to mind: Chad Brown. The future Hall of Famer has dominated them for the past 15 years, and among the many races he owns is the Flower Bowl Stakes (G2). Brown trained the winner eight […...
Joe Hirsch was more than an outstanding writer for the Daily Racing Form. He was an ambassador for the sport whose influence extended to Europe, and he loved international racing. Appropriately, in 2004, about four years before he died, the Turf Classic (G1) was renamed in his honor. Since its incep...
The Vosburgh's grade may have diminished, but its capacity to produce a Breeders' Cup horse has not. Ten sprinters will test the new Belmont Park on Saturday in the $250,000 Vosburgh Stakes (G3), a 7-furlong "Win and You're In" qualifier for the $2 million Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1) on Oct. 31 at Kee...
When it comes to his champion filly Nitrogen, Hall of Fame trainer Mark Casse is one “proud papa.’’ And that comment came after a loss against the boys – a gallant second-place effort behind Horse of the Year Sovereignty in the $1 million Whitney Stakes (G1) at Saratoga on Aug. 8. On Friday,...
Hard to believe Hall of Famer D. Wayne Lukas has been gone for more than a year. The timeless Hall of Fame trainer seemed impervious to time's inexorable march. We’re reminded of the horseman who won 15 Triple Crown races and 20 Breeders’ Cup races with the running of the $500,000 Lukas Classic ...
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