Only a pair of noses separated the top three finishers in a thrilling edition of the $100,000 Honeymoon Stakes (G3T) May 18 at Santa Anita Park. Emerging victorious in the three-way photo finish was Firenze Flavor , ridden by Drayden Van Dyke, who was making her stakes debut for trainer Patrick Gallagher in the 1 1/8-mile…
Highlighted by runner-up finishes in both the 150th Preakness Stakes (G1), middle jewel of the Triple Crown, and $300,000 George E. Mitchell Black-Eyed Susan (G2) for 3-year-old fillies, Brendan Walsh earned the top prize of $50,000 in 1/ST Racing’s $100,000 trainer bonus offered to horsemen for their participation in stakes races over Preakness weekend, May…
The third entry stage for the June 1 Japanese Derby was set May 18 with 20 3-year-old colts left on the nominees’ list for the 92nd running of the Derby at 2,400 meters (about 12 furlongs) on the turf track at Tokyo Racecourse. All of the top five finishers in the April 20 Satsuki Sho…
Five-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer Chad Brown arrives annually at Saratoga Race Course‘s Oklahoma training track with a strong contingent of racing’s top performers, and this year is no exception. The 46-year-old native of nearby Mechanicville currently has seven grade 1 winners stabled at Saratoga, with five of them hitting the work tab this weekend. Leading…
Classy mare Sunshine In Paris gained a deserved third group 1 success May 17 when toughing it out to deny the returning Rothfire in a thrilling edition of the Doomben Ten Thousand (G1) at Doomben Racecourse in Queensland. Having taken on the best sprinters in the land in her three previous starts this campaign, with…
Ascoli Piceno, last through much of the race, stuck her neck in front in a four-filly blanket finish to win the Victoria Mile (G1) May 18 at Tokyo Racecourse. The 4-year-old Daiwa Major filly earned her second top-level victory and fifth overall, backing up a win in her last start in the 1351 Turf Sprint…
As far as the possibility of a tantalizing rematch between Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Sovereignty and Preakness Stakes (G1) victor Journalism goes, no news will be good news. In the aftermath of the May 17 final Preakness at the “old” Pimlico Race Course, when Sovereignty skipped the race to target the June 7 Belmont Stakes…
Journalism wins the 2025 Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland, on May 17, 2025. Source link
Marc Witkowski, the regular exercise rider of Preakness Stakes (G1) winner Journalism, reacts to the colt’s victory the following morning May 18. Source link
Classy mare Sunshine In Paris gained a deserved third group 1 success May 17 when toughing it out to deny the returning Rothfire in a thrilling edition of the Doomben Ten Thousand (G1) at Doomben Racecourse in Queensland. Having taken on the best sprinters in the land in her three previous starts this campaign, with…
