Lost in the shuffle of the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival June 6-8, was Kilwin ‘s victory in stakes record time in the $175,000 Leslie’s Lady Overnight Stakes at Churchill Downs June 8. The 3-year-old daughter of Twirling Candy beat a quality field in her first dirt attempt that included multiple graded stakes-placed and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies…
Darby Dan Farm’s Modernist got his first winner when his son Stretch romped in a five-furlong maiden special weight race, winning by nine lengths at Lone Star Park June 15. The colt was bred in Kentucky by Phoenix Farm and Racing and is out of the Dixie Union mare Carried Away. The colt was offered at…
Mystik Dan , winner of the 2024 Kentucky Derby (G1), returned to the Churchill Downs work tab June 15 with a five-furlong breeze in 1:00 under jockey Brian Hernandez Jr., preparing for a likely start in the $1 million Stephen Foster Stakes (G1) June 28. Mystik Dan, who won the Blame Stakes (G3) May 31, breezed…
Newhaven Park’s Cool Aza Beel is a group 1-winning sire after his son Cool Archie continued on his irrepressible way with a fifth straight success in Eagle Farm’s JJ Atkins (G1). One of only two sons of the mighty New Zealand-based stallion Savabeel standing in Australia—with the other, Mo’unga, standing alongside him at Newhaven—Cool Archie…
Royal Ascot is expected to start on a mixture of good and good to firm ground, with no rain forecast through the week. Speaking 48 hours before the meeting gets under way June 17, clerk of the course Chris Stickels said: “It’s good, good to firm in places, and I imagine I’ll probably change it…
Owner Jim Bryce has described his United States adventures with Heart of Honor as “crazy” and is relishing more international trips with his dirt star following a well-earned break. The Jamie Osborne-trained colt finished fifth of nine when attempting to become the first European-based horse to win the Preakness Stakes (G1) at Pimlico Race Course…
Meisho Tabaru took a big step forward and opened the door to even bigger opportunities with a gate-to-wire victory June 15 in the Takarzuka Kinen (G1) at Hanshin Racecourse. The Gold Ship 4-year-old, benefiting by a “gun it and hope” strategy by veteran jockey Yutaka Take, captured his first grade 1 victory, improving on a…
Andy Serling & Sara Elbadwi look back at the N.Y.S.S. Cupecoy’s Joy Division at Belmont at the Big A and The Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth. Source link
Satono Reve, a 6-year-old horse by Lord Kanaloa , will try to become the first Japanese-trained winner at Ascot Racecourse in the Queen Elizabeth Ⅱ Jubilee Stakes (G1) June 21. Although Japanese runners have performed well in international races in recent years, there has been no Japanese success at the Ascot in the United Kingdom. A few have…
Before Motorious loaded in the Santa Anita Park starting gate for his seasonal debut June 14, trainer Phil D’Amato told FanDuel TV’s Christina Blacker that the 7-year-old gelding was only 90%-95% fit. It turned out that was all he needed to be as he scored a flashy victory in the $100,500 Daytona Stakes (G3T). “Once…
