Ron Flatter

Puca (Big Brown), the dam of the classic winning full-brothers Mage (Good Magic) and Dornoch, will be offered at Fasig-Tipton's 'Night of the Stars' Nov. 3, John Stewart told Ron Flatter on his podcast on Horse Racing Nation on Friday. Stewart, the owner of Resolute Racing, told Flatter that Puca had not gotten into foal this year. "She's 13 [and] she's empty. The broodmare of the year, we're taking her to the Night of the Stars, and we'll see what happens." Stewart said on the podcast that he expected a...

Horse Racing Nation and writer Ron Flatter is reporting that GI Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike (Keen Ice) has been sold to a group that includes, among others, former trainer Eric Reed. Reed and former owner Rick Dawson had a falling out over the rights to a movie about Rich Strike, Reed and his father. Dawson fired Reed and gave the horse to Bill Mott, who was unable to get him back to the races. "I'm happy," Reed told Horse Racing Nation. "I had to write off ever even putting...

The lawsuit filed by Amr Zedan's incorporated racing stable to try and get Bob Baffert-trained horses un-barred from the GI Kentucky Derby could get decided by the end of this week according to several published news reports in the wake of a Monday hearing in Kentucky's Jefferson Circuit Court. Ron Flatter of Horse Racing Nation reported that the judge in Zedan's lawsuit against Churchill Downs, Inc. (CDI) was "prepared to rule" on Zedan's motion for an injunction and/or on CDI's motion to dismiss the case entirely, but wanted to wait...