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With the GI Travers S. less than a week away, a gaggle of locally based hopefuls for the race tuned up with Saturday morning works at Saratoga. With the status of Triple Crown winner American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) hinging on a Sunday morning breeze at Del Mar, GII Jim Dandy S. hero Texas Red...
Trainer Larry Jones, who saddled 2008 GI Alabama S. winner Proud Spell (Proud Citizen), has two major chances at another win in the prestigious Saratoga affair Saturday. Lovely Maria (Majesticperfection), who carries the same green and orange Brereton Jones silks that Proud Spell did, finished second to stablemate I’m a Chatterbox (Munnings) in the GIII...
Some have tried before. All have failed. But of the four females who have faced the boys in the GI TVG Pacific Classic, only Paseana (Arg) had a fraction of the class of Spendthrift Farm’s two-time Eclipse Award winner Beholder (Henny Hughes), who will take on the males and try a distance further than nine...
Despite the main focus falling on Acapulco (Scat Daddy) in Friday’s G1 Coolmore Nunthorpe S. at York, it was another filly who leapt into the limelight as David Metcalfe’s Mecca’s Angel (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) managed to catch the American raider late on in a nail-biter of a renewal. Always lagging off the pace set...
By design, trainer Keith Desormeaux’s string of five horses at Saratoga Race Course are tucked away at the far end of Barn 23 in an out-of-the-way corner of the backstretch stable area. Though not easily found, that group of runners managed by assistant trainer Julie Clark, and led by GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner Texas...
Where Acapulco (Scat Daddy) is concerned, nobody is sure what to expect as the awesome G2 Queen Mary S. winner tackles a whole different ball game in Friday’s G1 Coolmore Nunthorpe S. at York. With just two runs behind her–albeit one in a highly competitive renewal of the Royal Ascot feature for 2-year-old fillies June...
Since winning the G1 Irish 1000 Guineas at The Curragh May 24, the wheels had started to come off Godolphin’s Pleascach (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}), but Jim Bolger had worked his magic in the interim to restore her mojo and she repaid him with a gutsy win in Thursday’s G1 Darley Yorkshire Oaks. Second when considered...
Two-time Eclipse champion Beholder (Henny Hughes) drew post nine and was installed the 5-2 morning-line favorite after a field of 10 was entered Wednesday for Saturday’s GI TVG Pacific Classic S. at Del Mar. The 5-year-old mare will attempt to become the first female to win the Pacific Classic. The best female finish in the...
As if the withdrawal of Gleneagles (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) did not provide enough of a twist to the plot ahead of Wednesday’s G1 Juddmonte International S., the real drama was still to play out on York’s Knavesmire as the unheralded 50-1 shot Arabian Queen (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) mastered Golden Horn (GB) (Cape Cross {Ire}) to...
Rebounding from a slightly disappointing third behind the undefeated Erupt (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) when last seen in the G1 Grand Prix de Paris at Longchamp July 14, the G1 Epsom Derby third and G1 Irish Derby runner-up Storm the Stars had to survive a lengthy stewards’ inquiry to secure a career-best success in this St...
Not including Arqana’s August v. 2 sale yesterday, through their Book 1 August yearling sale which ended Monday, plus another solid edition of the NY-bred sale last weekend makes it a good time to take a snapshot of the sales season so far: Fasig-Tipton July, Saratoga, and NY-bred sales, plus Arqana August Book 1. It’s...
This is what thoroughbred flat racing is all about. At 3:40 Wednesday, the elite of the Classic generation go head-to-head on York’s famed Knavesmire, the most level playing field available among Britain’s array of racecourses, for a renewal of the G1 Juddmonte International S. untroubled by the vagaries of the English summer. It was an...