Riding the wave of Thoroughbred horse racing
Keeneland Photo La Verdad, who won the $150,000 Iroquois Stakes at Belmont Park on October 24th, is expected to run back one week later in the $1,000,000 Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (gr. I) on October 31st at Keeneland. … Continued
Breeders’ Cup Photo © Trainer Linda Rice, seeking her first win in a Breeders’ Cup race, will have a starter in both the Breeders’ Cup Sprint (gr. I) and Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (gr. I) on October 31st at … Continued
Sentiero Italio (dark blue colors in the middle of the picture) finishing third in the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Stakes (gr. I) at Keeneland – Keeneland Photo According to the Belmont Park Notes for October 16th, trainer Kiaran McLaughlin … Continued
Artemis Agrotera, who won the Ballerina Stakes (gr. I) and Gallant Bloom Handicap (gr. II) last year before finishing seventh as one of the favorites in the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (gr. I), could potentially give the Filly & Mare … Continued
Keeneland Photo Breathtaking? Yes. Impressive? Most definitely. Good enough to win the Breeders’ Cup Mile? Quite possibly. Coming off a pair of narrow defeats in graded stakes company at Saratoga, the four-year-old filly Tepin was expected to be rebound with a victory while … Continued
Photo by NYRA/Coglianese Photos/Susie Raisher Two-time grade I winner Honor Code may have disappointed his backers when finishing third as the heavy favorite in the Kelso Handicap (gr. II) on October 3rd at Belmont Park, but the four-year-old son of … Continued
The talented three-year-old colt El Kabeir, who won the Jerome Stakes (gr. III) and Gotham Stakes (gr. III) earlier this winter before being sidelined with a foot abscess, is doing very well as he trains for a return to the races and could be … Continued
The first Saturday of the Keeneland meet brought a maiden special weight filled with promising two-year-old colts, but perhaps the most exciting juvenile racing action of the day was at Belmont Park, where a pair of races yielded impressive results. Let’s take … Continued
© Benoit Photo During her long career, which has spanned four seasons of success at the highest levels of the sport, Beholder has won many races with impressive ease. But on Saturday, she took her domination to a whole new level with an … Continued
Breeders’ Cup Photo © The New York Racing Association has released the lists of probable and possible starters for the five Breeders’ Cup prep races scheduled to be run on October 3rd at Belmont Park, a day of racing billed as “Super Saturday.” … Continued