Browse

Shared Content Archive

This is the archive of all the old shared content.

Our Caravan Takes Calder Derby

Saturday, Calder Race Course  CALDER DERBY, $258,720, CRC, 4-5, 3yo, 1 1/8m, 1:54 1/5, ft.  1–#OUR CARAVAN, 117, c, 3, by Daaher       1st Dam: Alwaan, by Elusive Quality       2nd Dam: Jersey Girl, by Belong to Me       3rd Dam: Miss Bold Appeal, by Valid Appeal  ($190,000 yrl ’12 FTSAUG). O-Anstu Stables Inc;  B-Hare Forest Farm LTD (KY);...

Wicked’ Late Run Takes the Wood

Saturday, Aqueduct  TWINSPIRES.COM WOOD MEMORIAL S.-GI, $1,000,000, AQU, 4-5, 3yo, 1 1/8m, 1:49 1/5, ft.  1–s#@WICKED STRONG, 123, c, 3, by Hard Spun       1st Dam: Moyne Abbey, by Charismatic       2nd Dam: Classic Approval, by With Approval       3rd Dam: Classic Value, by Copelan  ($375,000 yrl ’12 KEESEP). O-Centennial Farms;  B-William Flynn (KY); T-James A Jerkens; J-Rajiv  Maragh....

Prominent Maryland Trainer, Dickie Small, Dies

   Richard “Dickie” Small, who won the 1994 Breeders’ Cup Classic with Concern, died Friday night after a battle with cancer. He was 68.     Small finished his career with 1,199 wins, including 36 graded stakes wins, and earned total of $38.9 million. He had three career Grade I scores, by Caesar’s Wish, Broad Brush...

Bobby’ Headlines Triple Crown Trail

Bobby’s Kitten Works for the GI Toyota Blue Grass…      Bobby’s Kitten (Kitten’s Joy), the 2013 GIII Pilgrim S. winner and GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile third, breezed five panels at Keeneland Saturday in 1:00.20 with Marino Garcia in the irons. The Ken and Sarah Ramsey homebred is the potential favorite for the GI Toyota Blue Grass S....

In Search of the Golden Egg

IN SEARCH OF THE GOLDEN EGG  By Kelsey Riley  The Inglis Australian Easter Sale kicks off its three-day stand in Newmarket, Sydney Tuesday, with 555 lots set to go under the hammer. While the Easter Sale has represented the cream of the Australasian yearling crop since it was first conducted in 1917, it has risen...

Aqueduct Focus of NYRA Board Meeting

by Mike Kane Complaints about the current status of Aqueduct Racetrack intersected with talk about the future at the New York Racing Association’s Reorganization Board meeting Wednesday morning in New York City.  Moments after NYRA President and CEO Christopher Kay outlined improvements scheduled this year at the company’s three tracks, board member Leonard Riggio commented...

Velazquez to Ride Wildcat Red

John Velazquez will pick up the mount on GII Besilu Stables Fountain of Youth S. winner Wildcat Red (D’wildcat) in the Mar. 29 GI Besilu Florida Derby. “I’m very happy with that,” reported trainer Jose Garoffalo. “I think he’s going to get along well with the horse. He knows every horse. He knows how to ride.” Edgard...

Bachelor Party

By Christie DeBernardis  ‘TDN Rising Star’ Diamond Bachelor (War Front) gets a second try on the dirt when he makes his 2014 debut Saturday in Santa Anita’s GII Robert B. Lewis S. The handsome colt, who stamped himself as a turf star early in his juvenile campaign, was last seen finishing ninth in the GI Breeders’ Cup...

Bourbon Trail Goes Through Florida

BOURBON TRAIL GOES THROUGH FLORIDA By Michael Illiano      Bourbon Lane Stable, the ambitious syndicate managed by bloodstock agents Michael McMahon and Jaimie Hill, is poised to increase its profile dramatically in the coming year. Since 2010, the syndicate has purchased a small group of horses each year–three yearlings and three 2-year-olds — and it...

Midday Foals Frankel Filly

MIDDAY FOALS FRANKEL FILLY  Midday (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}), a six-time Group 1 winner including the 2009 GI Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf, produced a filly by Frankel (GB) at Juddmonte’s Banstead Manor Stud Feb. 1. Midday also won the G1 Nassau S. three times, the G1 Yorkshire Oaks and the G1 Prix Vermeille while...

Red Cadeaux Forced to Do ‘Dirty’ Work

Ronald Arculli’s Red Cadeaux (GB) (Cadeaux Genereux {GB}), winner of the 2012 G1 Hong Kong Vase and most recently second for the third time in the G1 Melbourne Cup, was forbidden from galloping over the Sha Tin turf course Thursday morning and was relegated to a gallop over the all-weather surface, deemed “not suitable” for use by...

Aussie Duo Settling in at Sha Tin

Despite a flight from Australia that began with on-the-ground turbulence in Melbourne, but had nothing to do with unstable air, the country’s two representatives for next Sunday’s Longines Hong Kong International Races–G1 Hong Kong Sprint hopeful Buffering (Aus) (Mossman {Aus}) and G1 Hong Kong Cup aspirant Criterion (NZ) (Sebring {Aus})–have settled in nicely at Sha Tin.  Seven-year-old Buffering will...