By Miriam Lee The Breeders’ Cup Championship culminates the racing season and crowns the fleetest sprinters, the most promising two-year-olds, the best turf horses. At $2 million, the Breeders�...
What’s left to say about Fox Hill Farm’s Songbird that hasn’t been said already? Just like the champion she is, the daughter of Medaglia d’Oro rises to every challenge and Saturday was no exce...
Seven months after suffering her first defeat by a short nose to the great mare Beholder in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff (GI), two-time champion Songbird returned to the races brilliantly, cruising to ...
Don Alberto Stable’s Unique Bella returned to her familiar spot in the winner’s circle on Saturday following an impressive 2 ¼-length victory in the $100,000 Santa Ysabel Stakes (GIII) at Santa A...
Ever since Unique Bella won the Santa Ynez Stakes (GII) at Santa Anita this past weekend, superlatives have been flowing on social media outlets like tall tales at a fishing convention. Some are sayin...
In my very first article on the 2016 Breeders’ Cup Distaff for US Racing, I used the term “anticipation,” likening the race to the old pop/rock song of the same name, heard in the famous commerc...
When it was determined that Songbird did, in fact, lose by the slightest of margins to three-time Breeders’ Cup champion Beholder in this year’s epic B.C. Distaff, her early legacy was not swept a...
I said it the day I was asked to cover the 2016 Breeders’ Cup Distaff: this is going to be one for the ages, an epic race that will likely be one of the most remembered and competitive ever. I calle...
When I chose the name “Anticipation” for my first article covering this year’s Breeders’ Cup Distaff, I thought it was the perfect name for the story, as it was the one race many were most loo...
