Stone Farm and Upland Flats Racing’s Swore set the pace and was overtaken in the lane, but battled back gamely along the inside to prevail in the $150,000 Lonesome Glory (NSA-1), a 2 1/2-mile steeplechase handicap for older horses at Aqueduct. Trainer Keri Brion notched her third win from four NSA-1 steeplechase events held at New…
September 18, 2025 2:39 PM 3:38 Trainer Brendan Walsh discusses his contenders for $1 million grade 1 contests at Parx Racing Sept. 20: Gosger and David of Athens in the Pennsylvania Derby (G1) and Clicquot in the Cotillion Stakes (G1). Roger Horgan was in the saddle aboard all three…
After competitive graded stakes losses in his only two races of 2025, Dresden Row lines up as the 6-5 morning line favorite in the CA$150,000 Durham Cup (G3) Sept. 20 at Woodbine. He won the race in 2024. The two-time graded stakes winner has come close in defeat, finishing third to Canadian Horse of the…
Keeneland has announced that Taylor Made Sales Agency will offer a share in leading sire Not This Time at the second edition of the Keeneland Championship Sale, to be held in the Del Mar paddock Oct. 29, two days before the Breeders’ Cup World Championships. A unique feature of the share will include all…
Multiple graded stakes-winning trainer Richard Robert Root died Aug. 25. He was 82. Root began working as a youngster for his father Tommy Root Sr., known for his work with two-time Eclipse Award-winning filly Desert Vixen, champion sprinter White Skies, and graded stakes winner and later leading stallion Valid Appeal. Richard teamed up with his father…
Topping the Sept. 17 ninth session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale was a colt by Midshipman purchased by Wesley Ward for $270,000 from the consignment of Nursery Place, agent. Out of stakes-placed winner Tiz Rae Anna , by Tiz Wonderful, the colt is from the family of grade 2 winner Debutant’s Halo and grade 3…
David Fiske, racing manager for Winchell Thoroughbreds, doesn’t have a solid explanation for Magnitude ‘s performance in the Aug. 23 Travers Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course, a third-place finish in a field of five and more than 20 lengths behind Sovereignty . “Clearly disappointing. We expected him to represent himself a little better than that,” Fiske…
Jamie Insole was a man on a mission at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale, with the Urloxhey Stables joint-trainer featuring among the buyers at the Kentucky bonanza via a daughter of sire-on-fire Justify . Having enjoyed a banner year largely thanks to Lennox Stakes (G2) winner Witness Stand , Insole was not resting on his laurels when…
Since the May 3 Kentucky Derby (G1), Sovereignty and Journalism have kept a stranglehold on the 3-year-old male division, sweeping every grade 1 or grade 2 dirt contest around two turns restricted to sophomores. Now, in their absence Sept. 20, several well-regarded runners will have a chance to emerge from their shadows with a win…
After participating in Thoroughbred racing as an owner/breeder for the past 35 years, Joe Benight never takes anything for granted. He knows that the business takes as much as it gives. With that in mind, Benight didn’t dither when presented with a solid price during the spring of 2024 to sell Haulin Ice , a homebred…
