Saturday’s $250,000 Withers Stakes (G3) at Aqueduct is one of the oldest stakes for 3-year-olds contested in the country. The race was named for New York businessman, horse owner, breeder, and one-time Monmouth Park owner David Dunham Withers, who owned the 1890 winner of the race, King Eric. Road...
In 2007 the Santa Anita Derby (G1)/Kentucky Derby (G1) prep once known as the Santa Catalina Stakes was renamed the Robert B. Lewis Stakes (G3) to honor one of the most beloved owners in the game of Thoroughbred racing who passed away the year before. The familiar green and yellow silks representing...
Saturday marks the 59th running of the Southwest Stakes (G3) at Oaklawn Park and the feature again returns on the track’s stakes calendar to its regular spot as the traditional Rebel Stakes (G2) prep this year after a nearly two-week delay in 2021 thanks to winter storm Uri, which blanketed the so...
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...
We know it’s early, but is there another run to the Kentucky Derby (G1) for longtime owner Al Gold after his Drum Roll Please rallied from last to first in winning the $150,000 Jerome Stakes at Aqueduct? Gold, who operates as Gold Square LLC, finally got his first Grade 1 win two years ago when [&...
Catching Freedom found the daylight he needed in the stretch and won the $300,000 Smarty Jones Stakes at Oaklawn Park on New Year’s Day. With Oaklawn’s leading rider (in 2023) Cristian Torres aboard for trainer Brad Cox, Catching Freedom ($5.40 for a $2 win bet) lived up to his 8-5 favoritism in...
Hey! Hey! No better way to kick off the South Florida road to the Kentucky Derby (G1) than with the $150,000 Mucho Macho Man Stakes at Gulfstream Park on Monday (Jan. 1). The race is named for Mucho Macho Man, a Florida bred who won the 2013 Breeder’ Cup Classic (G1) for Reeves Thoroughbred Racing...
Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen has used the Fair Grounds as a proving ground for quite a few of his 3-year-olds that went on to run in the Kentucky Derby (G1). Among them was champion Gun Runner, who won the 2016 Risen Star (G2) and the Louisiana Derby (G2) at the New Orleans track […]...
It was a good day at Los Alamitos Race Course for the owner of the track and the vice president of its racing association – their horse Wynstock won the $200,000 Los Alamitos Futurity (G2) at odds of 13-1. Neither Dr. Edward Allred nor F. Jack Liebau were too worried about a stewards’ inquiry af...
Otto the Conqueror is on the road to the Kentucky Derby (G1). The 2-year-old son of 2007 Derby winner Street Sense came to Remington Park, he saw pace-setter Glengarry wouldn’t quit, and he conquered the $300,000 Springboard Mile, winning by three-quarters of a length. “It’s off to Hot Springs...
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