Annals of Time goes Hollywood
Annals of Time, making his fourth career start, overcame a wide post to rally between horses in the final furlong and win his first stakes in the Grade 1 Hollywood Derby at Del Mar.
Annals of Time, making his fourth career start, overcame a wide post to rally between horses in the final furlong and win his first stakes in the Grade 1 Hollywood Derby at Del Mar.
The decision to downgrade the Grade 1 Blue Grass Stakes and Wood Memorial to Grade 2 status in 2017 has elicited a visceral reaction in some quarters.
The stakes will only get bigger for Vale Dori in the coming year, but she showed she's headed in the right direction on Saturday at Del Mar by making her final start of 2016 a significant one.
The parade of riders filing out of the Del Mar jockeys room at a quarter past three on Sunday afternoon will be a sight to see. No one will need a program to match names and faces.
New York racing, much like the city itself, never sleeps. As soon as Belmont closes its doors for the winter, Aqueduct opens its gates, picking up right where Belmont Park left off.
Prairie Meadows racing director Derron Heldt on the evolving relationship of casinos and racetracks. Dave Tuley of ESPN's Chalk website analyzes.
Los Alamitos has added a stakes race to its winter meeting to give California Chrome a local prep race before the final start of his career in the $12 million Pegasus World Cup.
One of the best things about horse racing is that there is really no downtime on the calendar.
As Connect and Divining Rod battled through the Aqueduct stretch of Saturday's Grade 1 Cigar Mile, trainer Chad Brown wondered if the lack of a recent race would compromise his horse's chances.
Effinex, a Grade 1 winner and the third-richest New York-bred earner of all-time, has been retired and will stand stud at Barry Ostrager's Questroyal Stud North in Stillwater, N.Y.
Jockey Flavien Prat, injured when tossed from a horse at the start of the third race on Sunday at Del Mar, was released from the hospital on Monday.
Ring Weekend did not need a fast pace to display his late rally in Saturday's $201,035 Seabiscuit Handicap on turf at Del Mar.
Late Friday afternoon, beneath the glare of the Churchill Downs lights, Gun Runner finally got his first Grade 1 victory, leading wire to wire in the Clark Handicap at Churchill.
Journey Home overcame 12 rivals and some debris that blew onto the turf course when capturing the Grade 3, $102,760 Jimmy Durante Stakes
Though Miss Sky Warrior appeared to tire in the late stages of her victory in the one-mile Tempted Stakes last out, trainer Kelly Breen had no doubt in the 2-year-old filly's ability.
As confident as trainer Tony Dutrow was that Mo Town was going to run a big race in Saturday's Remsen Stakes, he didn't necessarily know if that would be good enough to win it.
It took Verve's Tale a long time to win her first race. It took far less time to win her second.
Linda, still a maiden until late July, has shown rapid development in recent months, winning a pair of races and running second in the Grade 3 Valley View at Keeneland Oct. 21.
Texas Ryano roared past Ashleyluvssugar, the 4-5 favorite, in upper stretch and drew clear for an emphatic 3-1/4-length victory in the 1-1/2-mile grass race for older horses.
Heaven's Runway pulled off a 32-1 shocker, running past 4-5 favorite Stallwalkin' Dude in the final yards to win Thursday's Grade 3, $250,000 Fall Highweight.
Lady Fog Horn, always in close attendance of a soft pace while saving ground under Albin Jimenez, split rivals in mid-stretch and edged clear to win the Falls City Handicap.
Thatcher Street won the Grade 3, $100,000 River City Handicap by a half-length over Pleuven.
The horse and her connections came all the way from Japan, but it was apparent that those associated with Nuovo Record fully understood the significance of her victory.
Om and Gary Stevens came one step away from winning the $1 million Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint at Santa Anita on Nov. 5.
The strongly run Breeders' Cup Juvenile by Classic Empire and Not This Time gave much optimism for this year's class of 2-year-old males. More encouraging signs came Saturday.
It wasn't long after California Chrome worked Saturday morning at Los Alamitos that trainer Art Sherman's phone rang at Del Mar. His son, Alan, was quite excited on the other end.
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