Following an exhilarating weekend of racing at Saratoga Race Course, the action will move a few blocks away to Fasig-Tipton’s 104th The Saratoga Sale Aug. 4-5 held in the Humphrey S. Finney Sales Pavilion. Leading the prestigious weekend of racing was a 2022 graduate of the Saratoga Sale—Sierra Leone . The son of Gun Runner rallied…
A mandatory payout of the 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot pool yielded multiple $2,314.46 payoffs Sunday at Gulfstream Park. The popular multi-race wager had gone unsolved for eight racing days following a July 13 mandatory payout, producing a jackpot carryover of $110,739. A total of $1,254,750 was wagered on the Rainbow 6 Sunday, pushing the total…
If anyone says to bring the band home, that home would be Saratoga Race Course. At least that’s the case for the 5-year-old bay gelding, Bring Theband Home , who earned his third victory in three starts over the Saratoga grass when taking the $300,000 Troy Stakes (G2T) by 1 1/2 lengths in gate-to-wire fashion. Bring…
It was Ned Toffey’s daughter Megan who first saw the tweet. Sent in mid-February, it previewed an upcoming issue of an industry publication, including a story about the 2024 winner of Kentucky Thoroughbred Farm Managers’ Club, Ned Toffey, general manager of Spendthrift Farm. Except it read “Ted Noffey.” That tweet has gotten a lot of…
Fallen Angel joined a select band of fillies to win group 1s at 2, 3, and 4 in thrilling fashion, pulling the Prix Rothschild out of the fire under a determined Danny Tudhope, who admitted afterwards to the emotion of the occasion at Deauville. The Aidan O’Brien-trained pair Exactly and January took it in turns…
Mythical showed that she’s the real deal at Saratoga Race Course Aug. 3, winning the $175,000 Adirondack Stakes (G3) by 3 1/4 lengths for her third victory in as many starts, all by open lengths. As she did in her first two starts, the Arindel homebred led from gate to wire, facing no serious challenges,…
Sara Elbadwi & Megan Burgess look back at the Whitney Stakes & the Test Stakes at Saratoga. Source link
Perhaps Fasig-Tipton will decorate its sales ring with some black-eyed Susans for the 104th edition of The Saratoga Sale, Fasig-Tipton’s select yearling sale, Aug. 4-5 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The official flower of the Preakness Stakes (G1) would be appropriate as half or full siblings to the past three winners of the Baltimore classic will…
Kilwin looked like she had a most impossible task ahead of her when the gates opened for the 100th running of the Aug. 2 Test Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course. The daughter of Lane’s End stallion Twirling Candy went to her knees with jockey Jose Ortiz aboard in the $500,000 Test and trailed the field…
Swift Delivery dashed to victory in the Aug. 2 Seagram Cup (G3) at Woodbine, outrunning defending race winner Paramount Prince and six other older horses in the 1 1/16-mile race on Tapeta. A 4-year-old Kentucky-bred gelding by Not This Time , Swift Delivery is trained by Mark Casse and owned by Gary Barber, Team Valor International, Bruce Zoldan, Steven Rocco, and Kansas…
