Stakes Preview: Diana and Bowling Green
Acacia Clement & Sara Elbadwi look ahead at the Diana Stakes and the Bowling Green Stakes at Saratoga. Source link
Racing Returns to Maryland’s Fair Hill
Horse racing will return this summer to the turf track at Fair Hill Natural Resources Management Area in Cecil County, providing new opportunities for economic development through outdoor recreation and equine events. The turf track inside the Fair Hill Special Event Zone is scheduled to reopen to racing on Aug. 30 following the completion of…
Cinderella’s Dream Prevails in Falmouth Stakes
Godolphin’s Cinderella’s Dream claimed her first domestic group 1 in the July 11 Falmouth Stakes (G1) to continue an excellent week at Newmarket’s July festival for William Buick and Charlie Appleby. The jockey-trainer partnership enjoyed a treble at Newmarket on Thursday, including in the Princess of Wales’s Stakes (G2) with El Cordobes , and this success was…
Verifire Share Offered In Inglis Digital USA Flash Sale
Resolute Racing has partnered with the Inglis USA Digital platform to offer a 25% share in the undefeated stakes-winning colt Verifire . Bidding for the flash sale will go live July 14 at 2 p.m. ET, and it will be open through July 18, also closing at 2 p.m. “For me, it makes a lot of sense…
Stakes-Winning Train the Trainer Heads New York Derby
Train the Trainer’s potential wasn’t necessarily proven the day he made his racetrack debut back on April 6, though his runner-up finish in a maiden special weight affair at Santa Anita certainly was flattering. Instead, he was stamped as a New York-bred 3-year-old with serious upside on May 3 – even though he never stepped…
Fasig-Tipton Releases Catalog for NY-Bred Yearlings
Fasig-Tipton has cataloged 304 entries for the New York Bred Yearlings Sale, to be held Sunday and Monday, August 10 and 11, in the Humphrey S. Finney Pavilion in Saratoga Springs, New York. The August 10 session will begin at 7 pm, and the Monday session will begin at noon. “The New York Bred Yearlings sale…
Canadian Horse of the Year Patches O’Houlihan Dies
Reigning Canadian Horse of the Year Patches O’Houlihan was humanely euthanized July 10 due to the effects of a soft tissue injury sustained by the 5-year-old gelding in winning the June 28 Highlander Stakes (G2T) at Woodbine. Frank Di Giulio Jr.’s Ontario homebred son of Reload grittily took the Highlander by a neck over My Boy Prince …
Saratoga’s Traditional Opening Still Holds Excitement
It’s fair to say that the traditional opening day at Saratoga Race Course July 10 was unlike any in the track’s illustrious history. Typically, when the horses break in front of the grandstand to depart on a 1 1/8-mile journey in the first race, it ends a 10-month hiatus of racing at America’s oldest Thoroughbred venue….
Traditional Opening Day Kept Excitement for Connections
It’s fair to say that the traditional opening day at Saratoga Race Course July 10 was unlike any in the track’s illustrious history. Typically, when the horses break in front of the grandstand to depart on a 1 1/8-mile journey in the first race, it ends a 10-month hiatus of racing at America’s oldest Thoroughbred venue….
Another Record Set on Final Day of Tattersalls July
Recent Royal Ascot winner Quai de Bethune smashed the Tattersalls July Sale record when selling for 775,000 guineas (US$1,108,250, 1 guinea=US$1.43) late in the third and final session of the three-day sale that wrapped July 10. A host of interested parties took up position inside the Park Paddocks auditorium when Andrew Balding’s Kingsclere Training Stables presented…