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A wide-open field of 10 will line up for Sunday’s GII Princess Rooney S., a ‘Win & You’re In’ event for the GI Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint at Keeneland this fall. The 5-year-old Merry Meadow (Henny Hughes) is one of the more accomplished runners on paper, with wins in Gulfstream’s GIII Sugar Swirl S. Dec....
Predictable is one thing the G1 Vodacom Durban July never is. Once the South African National Anthem is sung and the gates crash open to the roar of the crowd, the formbook flies out the window and absolutely anything can happen. Yet, after the 2014 running of the race–where the winner wasn’t the winner–surely 2015...
Though she isn’t a Triple Crown winner or anything like that, Sheep Pond Partners’s Lady Eli (Divine Park) is one thing that American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) is not. With a breathtaking victory from off the pace in Saturday’s GI Belmont Oaks Invitational S., the $160,000 Keeneland April graduate remained perfect in six career trips to the...
G1 Middle Park S. winner Charming Thought (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}) has been conspicuous by his absence this year, but his trainer Charlie Appleby issued a positive update on the 3-year-old colt’s condition on Thursday. The Godolphin runner suffered a training setback in the spring, but Appleby is already lining up potential late season targets....
Dual Eclipse winner Main Sequence (Aldebaran) makes his first start since returning from Dubai in Sunday’s GI United Nations S. at Monmouth Park, a “Win and You’re In” event for the GI Breeders’ Cup Turf. The Flaxman Holdings homebred burst onto the American turf scene with a scintillating victory in this race last year in...
Triple Crown winner American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) will make his next start in Monmouth Park’s GI William Hill Haskell Invitational S. Aug. 2, owner Ahmed Zayat told ESPN.com Thursday. “I’ve decided to do the logical step and run American Pharoah at Monmouth,” Zayat said. “I’m trying to create one of the best days racing...
by Hal Handel Over the course of the past 40 years, I have seen the sport of Thoroughbred racing encounter significant challenges and I’ve witnessed them from a couple of different perspectives. As a deputy attorney general in New Jersey in 1975-77, I supervised the Tony Ciulla race-fixing case. (For those of you too young...
by Steve Sherack After Tammy the Torpedo (More Than Ready) blitzed home to a jaw-dropping debut win over the grass at Saratoga last summer, trainer Chad Brown turned to co-owner Jay Hanley, pulled on his shirt and said, “The one we have in the barn is a lot better.” Talk about calling your shot. With...
by Christie DeBernardis After Tammy the Torpedo (More Than Ready) blitzed home to a jaw-dropping debut win over the grass at Saratoga last summer, trainer Chad Brown turned to co-owner Jay Hanley, pulled on his shirt and said, “The one we have in the barn is a lot better.” Talk about calling your shot. With...
The stretch-running Include Betty (Include), a solid second after closing into a very slow early pace in the GII Black-Eyed Susan S. at Pimlico May 15, rallied from last-to-first to post an impressive 3 1/4-length victory in the GI Mother Goose S. at Belmont Park Saturday. The chestnut, owned in partnership by Brereton C. Jones...
Hronis Racing continued its hot hand with its private purchases in Southern California with a heart-stopping victory courtesy of Hard Aces (Hard Spun) in the GI Gold Cup at Santa Anita Saturday. The 5-year-old raced well off the pace beneath Victor Espinoza in 10th as Big Cazanova (Arg) (Giant’s Causeway) set swift early fractions of...
Second only to Golden Horn (GB) (Cape Cross {Ire}) in the G1 Epsom Derby June 6, Jack Hobbs (GB) (Halling) proved that form to be by far the strongest in Europe when inflicting a heavy defeat on the home contingent and upholding the form of the blue riband with Storm the Stars (Sea the Stars...