Casse: La Cara Ready for Tough Pace Test – Video –

If you watch the replay of the sixth race at Saratoga Race Course July 11, you’ll start to hear some shrieking shortly after the field of 2-year-old maidens hits the quarter pole. The shrieking intensified as No. 3 Dr. Agne  and Jose Ortiz first tried to find some room along the rail to move up from…

Luring in accomplished graded stakes-winning fillies Just F Y I , Candied , and Tarifa , the $350,000 Doubledogdare Stakes (G3) drew a field worthy of a grade 1 April 18 at Keeneland. Candied, one of two grade 1 winners in the race along with champion Just F Y I, makes her 4-year-old unveiling for trainer Todd Pletcher in…

Jockey Kazushi Kimura is slated to return to action March 21, more than two months after suffering a lower leg injury while in the starting gate. Agent Brian Beach March 9 said Kimura will begin getting on horses during morning training towards the end of next week. His return coincides with the new condition book…

At some point before this year’s The Saratoga Sale, Fasig-Tipton’s select yearling sale, Spendthrift Farm made an offer on the Into Mischief   colt that it had co-bred with Carolyn Gray and Fletcher Gray, hoping to be able to buy out their partners before the colt hit the auction ring Aug. 5. “They were too smart…

Morphettville trainer Stuart Gower is setting his sights on breaking the decade-long absence of locally trained winners in the South Australian Derby. His promising gelding, Darknconfidential, is being primed for a tilt at the Group 1 feature, with the upcoming Port Adelaide Guineas serving as a crucial stepping stone. Darknconfidential, a son of Cosmic Force,…

Due to the significant rainfall in the region this week and the forecasted precipitation, the $200,000 Cape Henlopen, a mile and a half turf race, has been rescheduled from this Saturday and will be run as a supporting feature on the Delaware Derby & Oaks card on Saturday, June 14.     The remaining seven…