December 2005

12/9/05 Last updated: 12/8/05 3:20 PM Multiple stakes hero WITT ANTE (Upping the Ante) is set to face six rivals on Saturday while going for a title defense in the $150,000 […]

12/9/05 Last updated: 12/8/05 6:49 PM Ireland’s breeding industry is set for a major upheaval as the widely anticipated abolition of the renowned stallion exemption was announced on Wednesday. In his […]

12/9/05 Last updated: 12/8/05 5:09 PM Turfway Park, Hawthorne cancel racing Thursday; Aqueduct closed Friday In anticipation of a severe winter storm that is expected to blanket the Northeast in […]

12/8/05 Last updated: 12/7/05 7:09 PM European champion and French highweight WESTERNER (Danehill), runner-up in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (Fr-G1), stretched his legs over the Sha Tin turf Wednesday […]

12/8/05 Last updated: 12/7/05 6:52 PM HOLLYWOOD PARK NOTEBOOK DECEMBER 8, 2005 by Bernard T. Moore BORDONARO (Memo [Chi]) broke in stride to immediately grab a daylight advantage and […]

12/8/05 Last updated: 12/8/05 11:06 AM PEDIGREE HANDICAPPING DECEMBER 8, 2005 Triple Crown Dilemma by Tim Holland The sad, but not totally unexpected, news arrived last week that 2005 […]

12/8/05 Last updated: 12/7/05 7:24 PM Leading Horse of the Year candidate Saint Liam captured this year’s Woodward (Uli Seit/Horsephotos.com) The […]

12/8/05 Last updated: 12/7/05 3:08 PM Andrasch Starke earned his second International Jockeys’ Championship at Happy Valley Race Course in Hong Kong on Wednesday. Winner of the same event in 2000, […]

12/8/05 Last updated: 12/7/05 1:11 PM Hollywood Park has increased overnight purses by 5 percent, retroactive to the beginning of the current meet on November 9. The Inglewood, California, track increased […]

12/8/05 Last updated: 12/9/05 2:07 PM Tampa Bay Downs will open for its 80th season of racing on Saturday. The 94-day meet continues through May 7, 2006, and the Oldsmar, Florida, oval […]