Looking down from balcony of the Fasig-Tipton sales pavilion in Saratoga Springs, NY, Ontario breeder Arika Everatt-Meeuse thought she was going to vomit. It was exactly 26 days after her mother, Boss Lady J, had died. Everatt-Meeuse had spent much of the trip crying, and now the hammer was about to fall on one of…
Racketeering claims filed in a lawsuit against Hawthorne Race Course by a fired veterinarian were dismissed by a federal court judge who concluded the allegations do not meet required legal thresholds. Dr. Christine Tuma was jointly employed by the Illinois Racing Board and Hawthorne as an Association Veterinarian whose duties encompassed responsibility for “maintaining the…
After winning the July 5 Sanford Stakes (G3) by 10 1/2 lengths, Leland Ackerley Racing’s undefeated Obliteration will look to add to his resume Aug. 2 when he battles Ewing and three other juveniles in the $200,000 Saratoga Special Stakes (G2). A son of Violence trained by Hall of Famer Steve Asmussen, Oblieration stretches out to 6 1/2…
This week’s iconic Goodwood Festival features three European races in the 2025 Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series: Win and You’re In. The festival’s richest race, the £1 million Sussex Stakes (G1) on July 30 serves as an automatic qualifier for the $2 million FanDuel Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1T), while the Molecomb Stakes (G3T) over 5 furlongs…
Amid frustrations from retail gamblers over a series of dramatic late odds changes during its races this summer, Del Mar announced July 29 it would close access by computer assisted wagering players to its win pools at two minutes prior to the off time, beginning July 31. The move mirrors a policy currently in place at…
Amid frustrations from retail gamblers over a series of dramatic late odds changes during its races this summer, Del Mar announced July 29 it would close access by computer assisted wagering players to its win pools at two minutes prior to the off time, beginning July 31. The move mirrors a policy currently in place at…
Maggie Wolfendale & Sara Elbadwi look back at the Jim Dandy Stakes and the Lake George Stakes from Saratoga. Source link
Congrats , who earned nearly a million dollars during his racing career before becoming a successful sire, died of natural causes in Florida July 28. He was 25. Racing from 2002-06 for various connections, Congrats won seven of 26 starts, competing across the country and even running fifth in the 2005 Dubai World Cup (G1) in the Middle…
Following a third consecutive graded stakes victory, coming in the July 26 Jim Dandy Stakes (G2) at Saratoga Race Course, 3-year-old Sovereignty has supplanted 4-year-old Mindframe in the latest National Thoroughbred Racing Association Top Thoroughbred Poll. Sovereignty, the Kentucky Derby (G1) and Belmont Stakes (G1) winner, is 4-1-0 in five starts this year for Godolphin…
No one disputes the place dirt racing holds in North America. One look at the top sires whose progeny run on that surface and it presently looks a lot like the overall standings based on progeny earnings. But change over to the turf sires’ list, and while there are some very familiar and very successful sires…
