Two stakes worth $200,000 will be run during the upcoming September Thoroughbred meet at Los Alamitos. The six-day meet is scheduled to begin Friday, Sept. 12 and continue through Sunday, Sept. 21. Racing will be conducted Friday-Sunday both weeks (Sept. 12-14 and Sept. 19-21). Post time will be 12:30 p.m. The first stakes race –…
There will be a heavy dose of sadness attached to the Aug. 2 Whitney Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course for JoAnn Pepper and her staff at Old Friends at Cabin Creek. Their hearts are still heavy a little more than a month after the equine retirement farm in upstate New York lost its biggest…
For Mike Repole, the horse owner, having a pair of outstanding, multiple grade 1-winning, 4-year-old future stallions in the Todd Pletcher-trained duo of Fierceness and Mindframe is a joy. “The last time I was in a position like this was when Uncle Mo and Stay Thirsty were 3-year-olds (in 2011). It is a tough thing…
Lane’s End’s Flightline will have his first yearlings offered in the United States on display at the prestigious The Saratoga Sale, Fasig-Tipton’s select yearling sale, Aug. 4-5 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y The 2022 Horse of the Year will be represented by nine yearlings that include five fillies and four colts. They were bred on a $200,000 stud…
If the question is who was the best horse in the $400,000 National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame Stakes (G2T) Aug. 1 at Saratoga Race Course, a case can be made that it was Zulu Kingdom . If you want to know who was the official winner of the turf stakes for 3-year-olds, that was…
In 1955, the first class of the Racing Hall of Fame at the newly established National Museum of Racing was comprised of 12 jockeys, nine horses, and six trainers. Exactly three of them were alive at the time, all jockeys, including Earl Harold Sande, who was 56 and decades past the era in which he’d…
As former NFL wide receiver turned Thoroughbred horseman Mike Renfro will tell you, he’s been lucky enough to strike oil twice. After 11 years playing with the Houston Oilers and the Dallas Cowboys, Renfro is part of the CJ Thoroughbreds team that will send out Tom’s Magic in the $1 million King’s Plate on August…
Before the Aug. 1 induction ceremony for the 2025 class of the National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame began Aug. 1 at the Humphrey S. Finney Pavilion on the Fasig-Tipton sales grounds, a fan in a Philadelphia Flyers jersey in the crowd and a poster hanging from the balcony with the words “Smarty’s Party” in…
Greg Wolf & Sara Elbadwi look ahead at the Whitney Stakes and the Test Stakes at Saratoga. Source link
Everett Dobson, the chair of The Jockey Club, and Justin Paul, senior vice president of operations for Churchill Downs Inc., have been appointed to serve on the Management Committee of Equibase Company LLC, it was announced today by Equibase Company Chair Ian D. Highet. Dobson, who succeeded Stuart S. Janney III as chair of The…
