June 28, 2025 4:20 PM 2:09 2024 Horse of the Year Thorpedo Anna’s jockey Brain Hernandez Jr comments after win in the $500,000 Fleur de Lis Stakes (G2) at Churchill Downs, June 28. The race earned her an automatic birth in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1) at Del…
The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) today announced that the 14-day quarantine of Barn 28 at Belmont Park has been lifted by the New York State Department of Agriculture. As a result, all horses stabled in Barn 28 are once again permitted to enter races as of today, Saturday, June 28, and to train…
Trainer Charlie Johnston is relishing round three between Lazy Griff and Lambourn , with the Middleham Park-owned colt set to lead the British challenge in the June 29 Irish Derby (G1) at the Curragh. The first three in the Derby (G1) at Epsom Racecourse will meet again after all 10 remaining entries stood their ground at the…
Barry Hills, one of the outstanding trainers of his generation and the founder of a major racing dynasty, has died at the age of 88. In a career set up on the funds of a spectacular ante-post betting coup on Frankincense in the 1968 Lincoln Handicap, Hills became arguably the main challenger from outside Newmarket…
The Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud (G1) has gone for export in five of the last six years but, even if British or Irish trainers had set their sights on the €400,000 prize this season, they would have needed to send an absolute top-notcher to challenge a hugely talented home defense in the 1 1/2-mile contest June…
Whirl pulled out all the stops to deny Kalpana in a barnstorming renewal of the Pretty Polly Stakes (G1) June 28. Runner-up in the June 6 Epsom Oaks (G1), Whirl set out to make all the running under Ryan Moore, but Colin Keane aboard Kalpana ensured he was always within striking distance of the leader….
Old Friends at Cabin Creek is saddened to announce the passing of longtime resident Commentator, who was humanely euthanized on June 27 due to long-term complications from Potomac horse fever. The son of Distorted Humor was 24. “He was well loved and we will miss him forever,” said Old Friends at Cabin Creek manager JoAnn…
His stablemate Mi Bago was bet down to less than even money and enjoying a clear lead through reasonable fractions, but D. J. Stable’s Dream On had the superior turn of foot when it mattered most and posted a mild upset of the $400,000 Penn Mile Stakes (G3T) June 27 at Penn National Race Course. Twice rescheduled…
Starstruck. That’s what we were. Absolutely starstruck like U2 groupies beholding Bono suddenly wandering in our midst. Only it was hard to figure out how to act around this D. Wayne Lukas person, a tireless self-promoter whose idea of a role model was the chair-throwing basketball coach Bobby Knight. Why did he prefer Wayne to…
Jockey Flavien Prat secured his 2,000th career victory in North America aboard Iron Max as part of a memorable five-win day June 27 at Aqueduct Racetrack. “Honestly, when I started riding, I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would be here in New York and celebrating 2,000 wins, so I’m very grateful,” Prat…
