It didn’t take the whole mile, but Warming needed about three-quarters of a mile to heat up and find her stride to win the $100,000 Autumn Miss Stakes (G3T) Oct. 26 at Santa Anita Park. The 1 1/2-length win also served as her first graded stakes triumph after coming up short in three previous attempts. …
Lovesick Blues ‘ path to the Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) began with Johnny Podres , both sons of Nick Alexander’s California sire Grazen . In mid-2023, owner/trainer Librado Barocio claimed 6-year-old Johnny Podres with David Bernsen for $40,000 and turned him into a multiple stakes winner. So last year, he went back to the same source for another…
Fifteen horses put in their final serious moves Oct. 26 ahead of the Oct. 31-Nov. 1 Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Del Mar, including Preakness (G1) and Haskell Stakes (G1) winner Journalism . Journalism, a 3-year-old son of Curlin , breezed 5 furlongs in 1:01 2/5 at Del Mar, working in company with stablemate Legitimate under his new jockey Jose…
Pierre Bonnard completed a group 1 double for Aidan O’Brien with a determined victory in the Criterium de Saint-Cloud (G1) under Christophe Soumillon Oct. 26. Sent off the 4-7 favorite, the lightly raced colt sat on the heels of leaders Endorsement and A Taste Of Glory before edging into contention down the home straight. The Camelot…
Churchill Downs’ late Vice President of Communications John Asher, who died unexpectedly in 2018 at age 62, will be honored by the city of Louisville on Monday with a “Hometown Hero” banner that will be displayed in front of Presentation Academy, a school he championed for decades. Asher joined Churchill Downs in 1997 and quickly…
The Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale gets underway in Newmarket Oct. 27, and it is a sale that has become an annual pilgrimage for many buyers from the Southern Hemisphere, who are expected to be active once again this week. The Newmarket-based auction, the world’s largest horses in training sale, has built a reputation…
Rhyme Schemes, dominant winner of the 2023 Saratoga Special Stakes (G2), has been retired to stud duties, and will stand his first season in 2026 at Clear Creek Stud in Folsom, La. The 4-year-old son of 2004 Horse of the Year Ghostzapper was purchased by Deuce Greathouse, on behalf of Pura Vida, for $210,000 at…
Last month, Irad Ortiz Jr. made the surprise announcement that he would be leaving his home state of New York and becoming a permanent member of the Kentucky jockey colony. The decision to relocate his tack and family paid off Oct. 25, when the Eclipse Award-winning jockey sewed up his Keeneland fall meet title with…
October 26, 2025 8:00 AM 2:15 Trainer Cherie DeVaux tells us 3 things you might not know about She Feels Pretty, a six-time graded stakes winner bound for the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G1T). View Comments Source link
There are 24 British- and Irish-trained horses declared in the six group races, which includes three group 1s, at Saint-Cloud Oct. 26, making up more than half of the runners in those races. Here are two 2-year-olds you should be watching especially closely, plus quotes from their trainers on their stablemates. Puerto Rico You imagine…
