Royal Ascot: Gidu goes for Commonwealth Cup; summit of Guineas winners in Coronation
Racing News
Friday’s Group 1 features at Royal Ascot are coming up intensely competitive affairs worthy of the grade. Both shine the spotlight on three-year-old divisions, the Commonwealth Cup (G1) for sophomore sprinters preceding the Coronation (G1) [...]
Oscar Performance breaks 20-year old track record in Poker
Racing News
Multiple Grade 1 hero OSCAR PERFORMANCE returned to his winning ways while making his four-year-old debut on Sunday in the $300,000 Poker Stakes (G3) over Belmont Park’s firm turf. In the process, the bay ridgling [...]
Spot Plays
Spot Plays June 18
For Monday TRACK (RACE) HORSE, MORNING LINE Delaware Park (2nd) Fearless Majesty, 3-1 (5th) Kinder, 3-1 Finger Lakes (1st) Andromeda’s Child, 7-2 (3rd) Green Diamond Cat, 7-2 Louisiana Downs (4th) Potomac River, 3-1 (6th) Stated [...]
Breeders' Cup
Pavel breaks out of slump, punches Breeders’ Cup ticket in Stephen Foster
It wasn’t a meteoric rise, but Pavel showed so much potential in the span of four races over three months last season that owner Paul Reddam and trainer Doug O’Neill took a shot at the [...]
Racing News
Mr. Misunderstood makes point in Wise Dan as World Approval fades
Champion turf horse World Approval was sent off as the even-money favorite on his retrieval mission in Saturday night’s $200,000 Wise Dan (G2), but still unable to recover his old form, the door was open [...]
Vance Hanson:
Terrific achievement by the Phipps family to have bred/campaigned Personal Ensign-My Flag-Storm Flag Flying, just as they did Busanda and…