Del Mar is adding three new wrinkles to its extensive wagering menu as a supplement to the track’s standard lineup of betting options for fans at its 2025 summer season of racing and wagering beginning on Friday, July 18. Daily racing programs at Del Mar will range from eight to 11 races at the upcoming…
Closing day at Lone Star Park July 13 brought an important milestone for Lexitonian as the grade 1 winner was represented by his first winner. Making her career debut in a 7 1/2-furlong turf race, Ritzaphena found herself in good stalking position beneath jockey Floyd Wethey Jr. Taking the lead in the stretch, the 2-year-old…
John Stewart’s Resolute Racing made its first foray into the Japanese market and, like with every sale that Stewart works, he made an immediate impact. Fresh from winning the Diana Stakes (G1T) at Saratoga Race Course July 12 with Excellent Truth , a daughter of Cotai Glory he bought for €1,600,000 ($1.87 million) at Arqana last…
Saudi Cup (G1) winner Forever Young will be joined by his Rey de Oro half brother in trainer Yoshita Yahagi’s barn and also sport the maroon silks of Susumu Fujita after the latter bought the Northern Farm-bred colt July 14 for ¥300,000,000 (US$2,035,710) at the yearling session of the Japan Racing Horse Association Select Sale. “This is a very nice horse and I strongly…
Keeneland announced July 14 that Dean Dorton, a nationally recognized advisory firm that began in Lexington and has headquarters here, is the new sponsor of the $250,000 Myrtlewood Stakes to be held Friday, Oct. 24 on the penultimate day of the fall meet. The 17-day season runs Oct. 3-25. The Dean Dorton Myrtlewood is a…
TJC Innovations today announced a new Portfolio App to elevate its My Portfolio service available through equineline.com. The Portfolio App provides quick and easy access for My Portfolio customers to review their portfolio horses on a smartphone or tablet and is free with a My Portfolio subscription. My Portfolio is a unique management tool for…
Lone Star Park concluded its 29th Spring Thoroughbred Racing season July 13, handling a daily average of $247,453 in live on-track handle and a daily average of $162,976 in export handle over the 41-day meet, which were both increases over 2024 figures by 2% and 5%, respectively. Attendance for the meet increased 7% over 2024….
Jean-Claude Rouget and Cristian Demuro have scaled the greatest heights in tandem, but there can surely never have been as emotional a triumph shared by the two men than Leffard ‘s nail-biting short-head defeat of Coolmore’s Trinity College in the 2,400-meter (about 1 1/2-mile) Grand Prix de Paris (G1) July 13. The author of a pair of…
Reunited with jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. and Saratoga Race Course July 13, Bregman Family Racing and Swinbank Stables’ Governor Sam showed the talent that made him a three-time stakes winner and grade 1-placed at 2 as he conquered his five foes in the $175,000 Quick Call Stakes (G3T). The son of Improbable had suffered two…
Well-known New Jersey breeder John Bowers Jr. enjoyed the gift that keeps on giving July 6 when his homebred He’spuregold captured the Irish War Cry Handicap for a fifth consecutive year over the turf at Monmouth Park. The gelding’s dominance in that test, combined with his other state-bred accolades, has made the son of Vancouver one of the most…
