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Shortly after 4 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, Triple Crown hero American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) took his first step towards the last half of a brilliant sophomore campaign as he arrived on the Monmouth Park backside. The Zayat homebred, who will contest Sunday’s GI William Hill Haskell Invitational, left his homebase at Del Mar around 1:30...
Lady Shelia Stable’s La Verdad (Yes It’s True) went wire-to-wire to annex her fourth consecutive victory in Saratoga’s GII Honorable Miss H. Wednesday. The Empire-bred was sent off as the 6-5 second choice and set the pace along the rail as GI Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint winner and 4-5 pick Judy the Beauty...
SO-SO Sent off the 2-5 favorite for Wednesday’s G1 Qatar Sussex S. at Goodwood, the Wertheimers’ Solow (GB) (Singspiel {Ire}) went about his business in his own workmanlike but highly profitable way to maintain his formidable winning sequence under a smooth ride from Maxime Guyon. Immediately into a comfortable rhythm tracking the early pace-setter Arod...
Barry K. Schwartz’s Japan (Medaglia d’Oro) displayed so much promise in his early training that former conditioner Mike Hushion thought he would be a GI Belmont S. contender. While the big, late-developing colt did not make it to the Test of a Champion, he was an impressive winner of the Easy Goer S. earlier that...
Triple Crown hero American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) put the finishing touches on preparations for Sunday’s GI Haskell Invitational Tuesday morning, working a half-mile in :48.80 at Del Mar. Del Mar’s clockers timed American Pharoah, who was ridden by jockey Martin Garcia, in splits of :12:60, :25.20 and :37.00 for the first three-eighths and had...
Without Gleneagles (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) in the starting box ahead of Wednesday’s G1 Qatar Sussex S., the Wertheimers’ Solow (GB) (Singspiel {Ire}) has a significantly easier task as he continues his romp through the season’s prime contests at or around a mile. While his transition from middle-distance mover to miling maestro is well-documented by now,...
Michael Dubb, who heads the ownership group that campaigns Magna Light (Magna Graduate), has filed an appeal with the New York State Gaming Commission on Magna Light’s disqualification in the GIII Sanford S. Saturday at Saratoga. The Rudy Rodriguez trainee set the early pace and still had a comfortable lead by midstretch, but veered out...
Forget the Year of the Sheep, 2015 is rapidly developing into the year of a 15-3-hands Thoroughbred stallion named Dubawi. With 14 Group winners in the Northern Hemisphere he is four ahead of the normally indomitable Galileo, and with seven Group 1 winners he is no fewer than six ahead of Galileo. Dubawi’s sensational Group...
Now that Leopardstown’s G3 Tyros S. and Newmarket’s July festival have offered the hors d’oeuvres, Glorious Goodwood adds more substance to the early shape of the following year’s Classics with Tuesday’s G2 Qatar Vintage S. taking prominence. Troy (GB), Petoski (GB), Dr Devious (Ire), Mister Baileys (GB), Shamardal, Sir Percy (GB) and Olympic Glory (Ire)...
Wild Dude (Wildcat Heir), a disregarded 11-1 outsider, closed powerfully to win Sunday’s GI Bing Crosby H. and earn an automatic berth to the GI Breeders’ Cup Sprint. The 5-year-old settled off the pace in fourth as Distinctiv Passion (With Distinction) took the field through fractions of :22.01 and :44.73. Favored Masochistic (Sought After) launched...
For the second time in two days, a Todd Pletcher trainee earned a graded stakes victory through the intervention of the Saratoga stewards, as Curalina (Curlin) was promoted to the win after coming up a nose short of tiring pacesetter I’m a Chatterbox (Munnings) at the wire in Sunday’s GI Coaching Club American Oaks. I’m...
Second on debut over six furlongs at Goodwood June 5, Gutaifan narrowly justified odds-on favoritism over that trip at Salisbury nine days later before registering another short-head success in a Chester conditions event staying at that distance July 10. Showing the same tenacity which even at this initial stage of his career is becoming his...