Gulfstream Park Oaks (G2) winner Five G saw her path to the Kentucky Oaks (G1) come up a day short May 1 when she was scratched from Friday’s 1 1/8-mile test for 3-year-old fillies at Churchill Downs. Trainer George Weaver scratched Five G from the Oaks because she went off form over the past couple…
On March 22 at Fair Grounds, a local hero delivered a win for the home team. Six-year-old gelding Touchuponastar, bred by Keith and Ginger Myers’ Coteau Grove Farms, outclassed rivals to capture the New Orleans Classic Stakes. Source link
If the past few months had occurred in the days of landlines and long-distance fees, Jay Adcock’s phone number at Red River Farms would have generated quite a windfall for Ma Bell. The farm, near Coushatta, La., is home of hot regional sire Coal Front , who has had Kentucky Derby (G1) hopeful Coal Battle carrying…
Thirty-five years ago, on the morning of the Kentucky Derby (G1), a youthful Ian Wilkes would tell anyone who would listen that Unbridled could not be beat in that afternoon’s Run for the Roses. Although the 24-year-old Australian native had only been working for Carl Nafzger a short time, Wilkes’ skills as an exercise rider…
A half dozen of the jockeys participating in the May 3 Kentucky Derby (G1) have experienced the thrill of winning it. Brian Hernandez Jr., Flavien Prat, Joel Rosario, and Javier Castellano all have one such win apiece in the American classic, while Mike Smith and John Velazquez have two and three official Derby victories, respectively….
When the Triple Crown comes to a close and summer begins at racetracks across the country, fans and participants in the Thoroughbred racing industry start searching the 2-year-old crop for the next set of Kentucky Derby (G1) hopefuls. One place that likely went unchecked in that search was Evangeline Downs in Opelousas, La. That was…
Rallying widest of all, Glen Hill Farm’s homebred Bridle a Butterfly posted a half-length victory over Out On Bail to win the $290,000 William Walker Stakes April 30 at Churchill Downs. The win, accomplished in stakes record time, gave the 3-year-old gelding’s sire—2019 Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Country House —his first stakes winner. Country House, a…
Triple Crown winners are the rarest of gems in the world of Thoroughbreds. Just the thought of a potential Triple Crown winner grabs the country’s imagination. And completing that feat makes for a global sensation. So perhaps it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that one of the more recent Triple Crown winners—American Pharoah —has…
Undefeated 2022 Horse of the Year Flightline , currently in his third year at stud, already has a graded stakes winner—at least in a manner of speaking. On April 25, when 6-year-old mare Forever After All hit the wire first in the Bewitch Stakes (G3T), she was already tested in foal to Flightline on a late March surface. Although…
During Airdrie Stud founder and former Kentucky Gov. Brereton Jones’s lengthy illness, Bret Jones said he and his father would share joy riding across the farm. “When he was going through the memory issues that he had, one of the great things that we could always still do together was me driving through the farm…
