Stakes Preview: Jim Dandy and Lake George Stakes

Against a backdrop of warm and windy conditions, the second day of the under tack show for the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Spring 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale transpired April 7, with a bay filly by OBS grad Yaupon   posting the fastest time for a quarter when she breezed in :20 2/5. Consigned by Tom McCrocklin, Hip…

American fans taking a peek at English racing this week for hints about the upcoming Breeders’ Cup World Championships might have caught an odd detail in the field set for the Aug. 20 International Stakes (G1) at York. Among the favorites in the 1 1/4-mile event, a Breeders’ Cup Challege series “Win and You’re In” race…

Comebacking dual grade 1 winner Chancer McPatrick  gets a second crack at a two-turn route when he returns in the $400,000 Tampa Bay Derby (G3) March 8. The 1 1/16-mile race at Tampa Bay Downs for 3-year-olds offers Kentucky Derby (G1) qualifying points on a 50-25-15-10-5 basis to its top five finishers. Chancer McPatrick was one of…

We are a deeply divided nation. Our differences are fundamental and fervently held. There seems to be little middle ground, or precious room for compromise. So, at least for now, we must live with the fact that half the racing world thinks Umberto Rispoli took a foolhardy chance and got away with it, and the…

Barnes , Rodriguez , Gaming  and champion Citizen Bull  all worked for trainer Bob Baffert March 23 at Santa Anita Park. Also on the tab was Vodka With a Twist , last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) runner-up, who is preparing to make her 3-year-old debut in the Santa Anita Oaks (G2) April 5. Working together in…

Coolmore’s M.V. Magnier, Peter Brant, and Winchell Thoroughbreds teamed up to land a Gun Runner   colt (Hip 177) with a black-type-drenched pedigree for $3.3 million during the Sept. 8 opening session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale. The dark bay or brown colt crowned the September sale’s first session which produced 15 seven-figure sales—the highest…