A compact but talented field of six will square off in Sunday’s $300,000 Clement L. Hirsch Stakes (GI) at Del Mar, a Breeders’ Cup Championship “Win and You’re In” event guaranteeing the win...
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...
The budding rivalry between champions Stellar Wind and Beholder produced another thrilling contest on Saturday when the two distaffers met for the third time in their careers, squaring off in the $300...
Champions Beholder and Stellar Wind have squared off twice, with each bringing home a win and, on Saturday, they meet again in the Zenyatta Stakes (GI), a race formerly known as the Lady’s Secret St...
A stellar wind is defined as “a flow of gas ejected from the upper atmosphere of a star. It is distinguished from the bipolar outflows characteristic of young stars by being less collimated, a...
A year ago, Spendthrift Farm’s multiple champion Beholder used her victory in Del Mar’s Clement L. Hirsch Stakes (GI) as a springboard to her first meeting with her male counterparts in the Pacif...
Her Emmynency Retired, Auntjenn Filling Impressive Shoes Ike and Dawn Thrash’s Grade I winner Her Emmynency has been retired and will be sent to Kentucky at the end of the week where future plans fo...
Beholder is fast. Beholder is brilliant. Beholder is a winning machine. Beholder is in a class of her own. For the last several years, those thoughts ran through the minds of many a horse racing fan, ...
