Machado Confident Final Gambit Can Win Kentucky Derby – Video –

The catalog for Goffs Orby Book 2 was released July 28 and is now available to view online. The sale features 433 yearlings set to be offered Oct. 1-2. Catalog highlights include a Saxon Warrior  sister to dual group 3 winner Greenland  (Lot 471); an Acclamation  filly out of a half sister to 2020 Irish Two Thousand…

The $169,750 John A. Nerud Stakes (G3) at Aqueduct Racetrack was short on competitors, but not on drama. Three sprinters battled to a photo finish, with Whatchatalkinabout  narrowly prevailing over Silver Slugger  and Surveillance . Whatchatalkinabout, who chased pacesetting Silver Slugger through fractions of :21.89 and :44.84 in the six-furlong race, was courageous in the lane, inching past…

Classic Mo Town , claimed for $25,000 last year at Gulfstream Park, scored his first graded victory in the $129,148 Eclipse Stakes (G2) May 31 at Woodbine. The win gave owner Bruno Schickedanz, trainer Martin Drexler, and jockey Eswan Flores two graded triumphs on the card. The 5-year-old gelded son of Mo Town   rated in sixth place early in the 1 1/16-mile…

A visual look at the field for the 2025 Preakness Stakes in post position order. Source link

Records tumbled at the Tattersalls Ireland Breeze Up Show May 23 when Yeomanstown Stud’s Night of Thunder  colt became the most expensive breeze-up horse ever sold in Ireland at €580,000 (US$658,271, €1=US$1.05).  Anthony Stroud was pushed all the way by Hubie de Burgh and his client, who proved persistent adversaries, with a new bidder joining the…

This year’s 2-year-old program has marched on without bringing the horses with it. The division is still forming ahead of Newmarket’s 6-furlong Middle Park Stakes (G1) Sept. 27, which has as strong a claim as any to be the last real leading 2-year-old race of the campaign in the sense that the Dewhurst Stakes (G1) and Fillies’…