No active trainer has had more wins in the Spinaway Stakes (G1) than Hall of Famer Todd Pletcher, who has six victories in the 7-furlong race for 2-year-old fillies to be contested Saturday on closing weekend at Saratoga Race Course. The $300,000 Spinaway – named for the juvenile filly who in 1880...
Be Your Best might be a good bet Saturday in the $500,000 Flower Bowl Stakes (G2) for older fillies and mares on the turf at Saratoga Race Course. On closer inspection, she looks like the best bet in the “Win and You’re In” contest that awards the victor a berth in the Breeders’ Cup Filly [&...
The $1 million Pacific Classic (G1), the most prestigious race of the summer season at Del Mar, takes center stage on Saturday featuring 3-year-old star Journalism taking on highly-regarded older horses Nysos and Fierceness. The 35th edition of the ...
It’s full speed ahead in the Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series “Win and You’re In" this weekend, with seven fees-paid, automatic berths to Breeders’ Cup races, including two for the $7 million Classic. On Saturday at Del Mar, site of the Breeders’ Cup on Oct. 31-Nov. 1, the biggest day of t...
Jockey Junior Alvarado may have said it best after Sovereignty stormed to victory in the $1.25 million Travers Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course on Saturday. “This is the horse of a lifetime,’’ he said after Sovereignty overpowered four rivals in a 10-length tour de force performance in one ...
With a final surge to the finish line, champion Thorpedo Anna held off a driving Dorth Vader by a nose and won the $500,000 Personal Ensign Stakes (G1) on Saturday at Saratoga Race Course. Thorpedo Anna, the reigning Horse of the Year, gained a fees-paid automatic berth into the Breeders’ Cup Dist...
Travers Day is upon us. For those who bet horse racing, it’s time to put your money where your handicapping has led you. The $1.25 million Travers Stakes (G1), the showcase race of the summer at Saratoga Race Course, takes place as the grand finale of five Grade 1 stakes on Saturday’s blockbuste...
There is nobody who stood taller in the racing world than Ron Turcotte, the Hall of Fame jockey who passed away today at age 84, one month after celebrating his birthday. The news was announced by the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in a statement that read, “Ron was a legendary rider [...
Nine runners looking to secure a spot in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (GI) over the same track in 2 ½ months, will race seven furlongs in Saturday’s 40th edition of the $250,000 Pat O’Brien Stakes (G2) at Del Mar, the tracks third of six Breeders’ Cup Challenge “Win & You’re In�...
It’s been a quiet Saratoga meet for Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert. That could change dramatically on Saturday. Somewhat surprisingly, Baffert does not have an entrant in the big show, the $1.25 million Travers Stakes (G1) for 3-year-olds at the Kentucky Derby distance of 1 1/4 miles. Instead, t...
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