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By Diego H. Mitagstein Back in November 1994, when I first met Jacinto Herrera, he was already a well-known jockey in Argentina, one of many Peruvians to marvel racefans all over the world. His contemporaries were Edgar Prado and Edwin Talaverano, two brilliant names on a long list that includes Jorge Chavez, Rafael Bejarano and...
Terry Hamilton’s Heart to Heart (English Channel) seeks his fourth straight victory in Friday’s GII Mathis Brothers Mile, formerly known as the GII Sir Beaufort S., over the Santa Anita turf course. The Brian Lynch pupil really came into his own at Saratoga this summer with a win the grassy one-mile Better Talk Now S. Aug. 20...
Last year’s victor Hokko Tarumae put his stamp on proceedings in the Tokyo Daishoten drawing off with authority to best second choice Copano Rickey at Ohi Racecourse Monday. The heavy chalk secured a stalking trip in the wake of his chief market rival one path off the rail through the early exchanges. The pace was...
Stonestreet’s multiple stakes winner Atreides (Medaglia d’Oro–Dream Rush, by Wild Rush) has been retired from racing due to a tendon injury and will take up stud duties next month at Hill ‘n’ Dale Farm. “Atreides represents the very best of the Stonestreet breeding program,” said Stonestreet owner Barbara Banke. “His dam Dream Rush is one of the...
W S Farish homebred Eagle (Candy Ride {Arg}) looks to secure his first black-type victory in today’s GIII Lecomte S. at the Fair Grounds and he will have to overcome the 11-hole to do it. A good looking debut winner sprinting at Ellis Park July 5, the Neil Howard pupil was second in an optional claimer going...
Daniel Dougherty’s Ride On Curlin (Curlin) is likely to return to black-type company next out after a successful comeback at Oaklawn Thursday. The GI Preakness S. runner-up broke a step slow in his first start since being eased in the GI Belmont S. June 7 and was far back off the pace early. Saving ground, the bay...
by Kelsey Riley New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sale series gets underway tomorrow with the two-day Premier Sale at Karaka in Auckland. The Premier Sale features 443 lots, 90 of which are out of stakes winners and 114 that are siblings to stakes winners, including 31 siblings to Group 1 winners. The Select Sale, which...
Spendthrift Farm’s two-time champion Beholder (m, 5, Henny Hughes–Leslie’s Lady, by Tricky Creek)–forced to miss a title defense in the 2014 GI Breeders’ Cup Distaff as well as a trip to the sales ring for the Fasig-Tipton November sale due to a fever–has returned to Hall of Fame trainer Richard Mandella’s Santa Anita base. “Richard [Mandella] said...
Zayat Stables and WinStar Farm’s Jojo Warrior (Pioneerof The Nile–Carson Jen, by Carson City), a two-time graded winner and third-place finisher behind champion Untapable (Tapit) in a loaded renewal of the GI Cotillion S. at Parx last September, has been retired, Ahmed Zayat announced on Twitter Thursday. “Jojo Warrior has been retired,” Zayat tweeted. “Happy, sound and...
By Mike Kane New York Racing Association trustee Anthony Bonono described the closed-door meeting Thursday night with horsemen and NYRA officials at Aqueduct as an opportunity to talk about the changes made as a result of the series of catastrophic injuries that have occurred during December and January. A total of 14 horses have suffered...
Texas Red (Afleet Alex), second in voting for Eclipse champion juvenile, worked five furlongs at Santa Anita Saturday in 1:01.40 and is on target to make his sophomore debut in the Feb. 1 GII San Vicente S. Plans for the colt also include the Feb. 21 GII Risen Star S. at Fair Grounds and the Apr....
by T.D. Thornton Jockey Roman Chapa remained at large on Tuesday despite the issuance of a Texas felony warrant for his arrest for allegedly using an illegal electrical device to stimulate Quiet Acceleration (Silent Picture) to a stakes win at Sam Houston Race Park on Jan. 17. “It is an open warrant but he is...