Saturday’s $100,000, Grade 3 Chilukki Stakes at Churchill Downs drew a competitive field of nine fillies and mares ages 3 and older to contest a one-turn mile on Churchill’s dirt track. There’s only one North American graded stakes winner in the field, #2 Finite, who won the Grade 2 Golden Rod Stakes last fall on…
Piedi Bianchi has been brilliant most of her career, tackling Graded Stakes company beginning in her 2-year-old season with a fifth-place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies in 2017. Now, the 5-year-old grey Indiana bred mare is a two-time winner of the $100,000 Frances Slocum Stakes, scoring a convincing win Wednesday, Nov. 18. It…
Share this article: The California Horse Racing Board will meet by teleconference Thursday to consider whether to grant Los Alamitos Race Course a license to conduct quarter horse racing in the 2020-21 season, after a cluster of equine deaths led the board to place the track on probation earlier this year. Los Alamitos is currently…
ROWLEY — A $60 million horse racing track proposed off Route 133 has been put on ice, halted by a roadblock to buying land and indications residents wouldn’t back the plan. “The project is frozen,” Massachusetts Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association President William Lagorio said Wednesday. “There is nothing going on.” Last fall, local investment firm Rowley…
North American horse racing action will now be available in Italy courtesy of a new distribution deal between racing content provider XB Net and Italian white-label platform provider MST (Media System Technologies). The agreement adds XB Net’s supply of live pictures, data and fixed-odds betting services – from a network of North American tracks –…
Hello, my name is John Cherwa and welcome to our horse racing newsletter as we get two weeks worth of stewards’ rulings. It’s time to finish up Santa Anita with all the remaining rulings from their live meet. As in the last couple weeks, since the institution of the new whip rules, that’s most of…
Justin Zayat, racing manager for Zayat Stables, looks hopefully at every young horse his family breeds or purchases, wondering if another American Pharoah might come his way again. He looks in vain. American Pharoah captured the imagination of racing and non-racing fans in 2015 when, in but one indication of how rare he is, he…
Hello, my name is John Cherwa and welcome back to our horse racing newsletter as we get another handicapping lesson from Rob Henie. Newsletter Off to the races Get the latest news, analysis, results and charts with John Cherwa’s definitive Horse Racing newsletter. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. If…
