Northview Stallion’s Engage , a multiple graded stakes winner by Into Mischief , got his first winner Aug. 24 when La Resolana won a maiden special weight race at Monmouth Park. The 2-year-old filly was making her second start following a sixth-place debut July 26. Owned by Gerardo Franco and trained by Jose Lozano Sanchez, La Resolana bumped a…
A year ago, Pamela Ziebarth was feeling on top of the world. Her homebred filly Sweet Azteca had just dominated the field in the Rancho Bernardo Handicap (G3) at Del Mar and appeared on her way to the Breeders’ Cup. But following a last-place finish in her start prior to the World Championships, dreams of…
2023 Woodbine Oaks winner Elysian Field handled the cutback to seven furlongs with aplomb, leading a 1-2-3 finish for Hall of Fame trainer Mark Casse in the Aug. 23 Seaway Stakes (G3) at Woodbine. Making her second start after an eight-month layoff in the $129,518 Seaway, Elysian Field raced near the back of the pack during the…
He may be a Jersey boy from humble beginnings, but you can count on Book’em Danno when the big stage comes calling. That was the case again Aug. 23 as the 4-year-old Bucchero gelding flashed his brilliance to earn a second career top-level victory in the $500,000 Forego Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course. Book’em Danno, dk b/br,…
When Dr. Venkman drew inside yet again, this time for the Aug. 23 Pat O’Brien Stakes (G2) at Del Mar, trainer Mark Glatt wasn’t happy. But as the race unfolded, Dr. Venkman found a big hole on the rail and gamely shot through for the victory. “He doesn’t like the inside,” Glatt said. “I’m glad…
Of all the juvenile riches housed in Ballydoyle, the visual impression created by Gstaad in running away with the Coventry Stakes (G2) is the one that lingers longest, for all that trainer Aidan O’Brien believes Albert Einstein may be the cream of the 2025 crop. A scheduled meeting with stablemate True Love in the Phoenix Stakes…
Banishing continued to pay immense dividends for co-owner Lawrence P. Roman and trainer/co-owner David Jacobson by winning the $1 million Charles Town Classic Stakes (G2) Aug. 22 at Hollywood Casino At Charles Town Races. The former Godolphin homebred, purchased for $80,000 at the 2024 Fasig-Tipton July Horses of Racing Age Sale, won his fourth stakes Friday night in…
The Travers Stakes (G1) is Aug. 23, a grade 1 race if there ever was one. In fact, the Travers is one of fewer than a dozen original grade 1 events—the ratings began in 1973—that are still offered at the same place, at the same distance, and under the same conditions today as they were…
Retired jockey Ron Turcotte, remembered for riding Secretariat to win the 1973 Triple Crown during a Hall of Fame career that ended prematurely in 1978 due to a tragic racing injury, died of natural causes Aug. 22 in his Drummond home outside Grand Falls, New Brunswick, in Canada. He was 84. Turcotte’s family formally announced his…
Sir Mark Prescott’s exciting 2-year-old Moon Target is set for her stiffest task yet as she takes on a compelling field of talented 2-year-old fillies in the Prestige Fillies’ Stakes (G3) at Goodwood Aug. 24. The winner of the 7-furlong contest is guaranteed an automatic starting position in the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies…
