Suparazi a firming Victoria Handicap favourite

A belated decision to run Dubai Goldrush in the Australian Oaks could pay dividends for the rapidly improving stayer. When first nominations for the Australian Oaks were taken in early February, the race wasn’t even a blip on Pam Gerard’s radar. The Kiwi trainer knew she had a talented filly on her hands in subsequent…

It’s unlikely that anyone outside of a handful of people remember Rare Rock. Yet he played an important part in as great a success story as Thoroughbred racing has ever seen. For it was on April 12, 1996, when a young former D. Wayne Lukas assistant named Todd Pletcher was just starting out as a…

Dual champion and classic winner Essential Quality   was represented by his first winner June 27 when 2-year-old filly Chopsticks  won the third race at Churchill Downs in her career debut. Trained by Brad Cox, who also trained Essential Quality, Chopsticks broke from the 5 post and raced in the three path around the turn. Moved out…

There is little movement at the top of the North American General Sires List with less than two weeks until the Kentucky Derby (G1) and a weekend filled with high-purse racing. But the rest of the top 25 has shuffled.  The top eight, based on progeny earnings, two pairs of sires swapped positions from two…

A little less than a year ago, Phileas Fogg  raced for a $62,500 claiming price at Saratoga Race Course and lost, finishing ninth in an allowance optional claimer on the turf. But a change in barns via a claim and a return to dirt racing has led to a change in fortunes. On July 4, he…

Towards the end of a lackluster first day of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training April 15, Donato Lanni signed the ticket for $900,000 on Hip 190, a well-bred Curlin   filly out of the stakes-placed Into Mischief   mare Motivated Seller . Consigned by de Meric Sales, agent, the Klaravich Stables-bred filly breezed the…