This week’s Ebor Festival at York features a trio of “Win and You’re In” events for the Breeders’ Cup, beginning with the about 10 1/2-furlong Juddmonte International (G1) on Wednesday’s opener. Poet’s Word, already in […]
When Drayden Van Dyke extricated Catapult out of the pocket, into the clear, and onto victory in Sunday’s featured $202,760 Del Mar Mile H. (G2), the hot jockey appeared to cap a banner five-win day […]
Well-regarded sophomore Hofburg, expected to be one of the prime players in Saturday’s Travers (G1), has come down with a fever that rules him out of the $1.25 million “Midsummer Derby.” “Hofburg will not run […]
Sunday’s $75,000 juvenile stakes at Ellis Park promised to yield clues for the Kentucky Derby (G1) and Kentucky Oaks (G1) points races coming up at Churchill Downs next month, but few could have envisioned the […]
The rise of Alpha Centauri as Europe’s premier Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) contender evokes memories of Hall of Famer Miesque – not just because she’s another Niarchos homebred three-year-old filly. Alpha Centauri is a direct […]
Unraced since suffering her first loss in the May 4 Edgewood (G3) on Kentucky Oaks Day, Rushing Fall returned triumphant in Saturday’s $300,000 Lake Placid (G2) at Saratoga. Last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf […]
The newly renamed Winx S. (G1) at Randwick fittingly turned into a coronation for its honoree, Winx. Imperious in her first start as a seven-year-old, the world’s top-rated horse won her 26th consecutive race, breaking Black […]
For the third straight year, Winx kicks off her Australian spring in the same stakes at Randwick – but Saturday’s renewal (late Friday night 1 a.m. EDT) has noteworthy differences. The about seven-furlong affair formerly […]
Last seen beating the boys in the Norfolk (G2) for a ticket to the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint, Shang Shang Shang joins two more of Wesley Ward’s Royal Ascot alumnae in Wednesday’s $100,000 Bolton […]
With a fan club stretching from his Emerald Downs base to social media denizens everywhere, Rising Star Stable III’s Barkley has been something of a cult hero ever since starting his career with a six-race […]
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