Chiropractor, off at 14-1, completed a 518-1 double for owner Glen Hill Farm, swooping late and holding off a determined late bid from New York invader March in the GI Hollywood Derby. The victory made it a clean sweep of the day's turf stakes following on the success of 37-1 Family Calling (Sky Mesa) in [...]

Some 15 years and three days ago, a gray colt called Monarchos (Maria's Mon) carried the gold-and-blue silks of John Oxley to a third-place effort in a maiden race on the penultimate day of the Churchill Downs fall meeting. Making his first start on the dirt in Saturday's GII Kentucky Jockey Club S., the owner's [...]

Family Meeting lit up the tote at Del Mar with a late running victory at odds of 37-1 in the GIII Jimmy Durante S. Dismissed at more than triple her 12-1 morning-line while breaking from post 12 of 13, the dark bay hesitated very briefly at the break and sat well back off the pace [...]

The globetrotting Criterion (NZ) (Sebring {Aus}), third in the G1 Melbourne Cup Nov. 3 and a winner of the G1 Caulfield S. and the G1 Queen Elizabeth S. this year, tuned up for the Dec. 13 G1 Hong Kong Cup at Sha Tin with a sharp 1400-meter move (here) in company with stablemate Orator (Ire) (Galileo [...]

Despite towering over her rivals with a 97 Beyer Speed Figure in her latest effort, 'TDN Rising Star' Carina Mia was let go as the second favorite in Saturday's GII Golden Rod S., but turned in a performance that stamps her as a main Midwest threat to Songbird, in a race like the GI Kentucky [...]

WAIT A WHILE S., $75,000, GPW, 11-28, 2yo, f, 1mT, 1:38.85, fm. 1–#LIRA, 116, f, 2, by Giant's Causeway 1st Dam: Lerici, by Woodman 2nd Dam: Balinese, by Nijinsky II 3rd Dam: Homespun, by Round Table ($170,000 Ylg '14 KEESEP). O-Mathis Stable LLC; B-Tada Nobutaka (KY); T-Todd A. Pletcher; J-Eddie Castro. $42,315. Lifetime Record: SW, [...]

Forever Unbridled, a full sister to this term's GI Ballerina S. winner Unbridled Forever, earned her first graded stakes victory with a gritty score in Aqueduct's GIII Comely S. Sitting pretty in a two-wide third off early splits of :24.04 and :49.47, the bay was inched forward by Hall of Famer John Velazquez to take [...]

This year's renewal of Del Mar's GIII Cecil B. Demille S. is a wide open affair with 13 talented juvenile turfers set to line up Sunday evening. Leading the charge on paper is Budget Stable's Dressed in Hermes (Hat Trick {Jpn}), who was most recently fifth in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf over a [...]

Go For Gin and Thunder Gulch parlayed victories in the Remsen S. in 1993 and 1994, respectively, into wins on the first Saturday in May the following spring, but no horse has completed the double since. Whether Mohaymen ultimately ascends to those sorts of heights will play out over the next six months, but to [...]

A strong group of East Coast-based filly and mare turf milers join the local contingent to comprise an overflow field for Sunday's GI Matriarch S. at Del Mar. Tentatively favored on the morning line at 7-2 is Juddmonte homebred Filimbi (Mizzen Mast), who annexed the GII Goldikova S. at Santa Anita last November in her [...]

2nd-CD, $55,771, Msw, 11-28, 2yo, f, 7f, 1:25.08, sy. +SMART SHOPPING (f, 2, Smart Strike–Shop Again {SW, $122,274}, by Wild Again), well-supported at 9-2 off a 10-1 morning-line quote in this career bow, skimmed the rail in a close fourth through opening splits of :23.09 and :46.86. Slipping through a seam in early stretch, the [...]

Sent off the even-money favorite in a field of seven for Saturday's GII Demoiselle S., the first of four added-money events, Alpha Delta Stables' Lewis Bay proved easily best to provide trainer Chad Brown with his first winner of the race. A homebred daughter of 2004 GIII Tempted S. victress Summer Raven–coincidentally, also the granddam [...]