Photo: Courtesy of Tampa Bay Downs Laurie Plesa’s Miz Mayhem will aim for her fifth stakes victory of 2018 in Saturday’s $100,000 Abundantia at Gulfstream Park, where the Eddie Plesa Jr.-trained 3-year-old filly is slated to meet a full field of 14 fillies and mares. The homebred daughter of Yesbyjimminy, who will…
Lexington’s Darby Dan Farm has been a constant leader in Thoroughbred racing and breeding ever since John Galbreath purchased the former Idle Hour Farm owned by legendary figure Colonel E.R. Bradley in the 1950s. Situated off of Old Frankfort Pike just east of Lexington, Darby Dan’s beautiful landscape houses stallion barns, boarding and quarantine areas,…
Photo: Courtesy of Gulfstream Park There will be three carryovers at Gulfstream Park on Thursday’s 10 race program. First race post is 12:35 p.m. The 20-cent Rainbow 6 went unsolved Wednesday at Gulfstream Park, producing a carryover jackpot of $143,865.97 for Thursday’s program. Multiple tickets with five of six winners were each worth…
Photo: Benoit Dream Tree was tabbed as the one to beat in Wednesday’s Grade 1, $300,000 La Brea Stakes as she attempted to remain undefeated in six starts. But Spiced Perfection ended the Bob Baffert-trained filly’s streak when she stormed down the center of the track to win the 3-year-old filly feature…
After its popularity earlier this year, Young Guns returns with all new questions for young professionals. Today we speak with trainer Carla O’Halloran who is a trainer based in Chantilly, France. TDN: Tell us about your career to date? Carla O’Halloran: Showjumping until I was 16, amateur rider in Spain and Italy (champion in 2003…
Joel Rosario, a mainstay among the leading riders in New York since moving there from Southern California in 2012, seized a prime opportunity back on the West Coast on Aug. 18 in the absence of injured jockey Victor Espinoza, stepping in for the mount on Accelerate in the TVG Pacific Classic. Not only did Rosario…
Wednesday’s Grade 1, $300,000 Malibu Stakes represents the final opportunity of the season for current 3-year-olds to compete in a race restricted to their age group, and horsemen responded as an overflow field singed on to go seven furlongs on opening day at Santa Anita.Bob Baffert trains four runners entered into the main body of…
After going 37 years without a Triple Crown, horse racing celebrated its second Triple Crown winner in just the last four years as Justify joined the ranks of 2015 champion American Pharoah when he captured the 2018 Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes. Not only was 2018 the year of Justify, it’ll also be…
Impressive on his fencing bow at Punchestown, Mengli Khan looks the horse to beat in the Grade 1 Racing Post Novice Chase, feature of Leopardstown’s St Stephen’s Day card. Gordon Elliott’s charge, successful as a two-year-old for Hugo Palmer, enjoyed a successful campaign over hurdles last season, winning the Royal Bond (Grade 1) at Fairyhouse…
Maryjean Wall, a member of the Joe Hirsch Media Roll of Honor at the National Museum of Racing in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., provides a progress report in the Lexington Herald-Leader on a planned memorial to 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat that she says will be “larger than life.” The bronze statue, being sculpted in Norman,…
