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Boundary, sire of Big Brown, dies at 22
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Multiple Grade 3 hero Boundary, sire of once-beaten champion Big Brown, was euthanized at Claiborne Farm on Saturday due to the infirmities of old age. The son of renowned Claiborne stallion Danzig was 22 years old. [more]
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Alpha could contest Gotham or wait for Wood
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Sporting a brand-new New York Giants cap in honor of their appearance in Sunday night's Super Bowl XLVI, trainer Kiaran McLaughlin reported that Alpha returned from his Withers CXXXII victory in good order and would likely take the next step to the Kentucky Derby in New York. [more]
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Junebugred works for Southwest; Cyber's no longer a Secret
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Junebugred, who stepped up off an Aqueduct maiden win to capture the January 16 Smarty Jones Stakes, worked at Oaklawn Park on Sunday in preparation for the Grade 3 Southwest Stakes on February 20. [more]
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Star Guitar rocks sloppy Premier Night Championship
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Brittlyn Stable Inc.'s seven-year-old Star Guitar rallied from last in a field of 10 on Saturday night to capture his fourth consecutive $200,000 Louisiana Premier Night Championship at Delta Downs. [more]
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Travelin Man, Stat entered in Gulfstream allowances
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Thursday's 10-race program at Gulfstream Park offers a pair of 6 1/2-furlong allowance features, one for three-year-olds and one for older horses, and leading trainer Todd Pletcher appears have the favorites in both races with four-year-old Travelin Man in the 3RD and sophomore Stat in the 8TH. [more]
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Hansen, Union Rags, Algorithms top Triple Crown nominations
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Champion Hansen and Union Rags, separated by a head in a thrilling 1-2 finish in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile, and unbeaten Algorithms, who stepped into the spotlight with a five-length win over the champion in the Grade 3 Holy Bull Stakes at Gulfstream Park last Sunday, top a large roster of 397 horses made eligible during the early nomination phase to compete in the three classic races that make up American horse racing's elusive Triple Crown. [more]
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Mr. Prankster romps to WEBN victory
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Thomas F. Conway and Mike Maker's Mr. Prankster trailed in last from his outside post during the opening quarter of Saturday's $50,000 WEBN Stakes at Turfway Park, but steadily made up ground to challenge after six furlongs, take command and easily draw off to score by 7 1/2 lengths under jockey John McKee. [more]
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Gamilati canters home in UAE Guineas
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Godolphin's Gamilati loomed as a prohibitive favorite in Friday's $250,000 U.A.E. One Thousand Guineas at Meydan, but the daughter of Bernardini did more than simply win. [more]
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Amazombie blazes bullet three-quarters in advance of San Carlos
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Champion sprinter Amazombie stood like a statue in his stall at Bill Spawr's barn Friday morning, a picture of happiness and contentment. This was less than three hours after the Breeders' Cup Sprint king worked six furlongs under the cover of darkness on Santa Anita's fast main track in a bullet 1:12, with jockey Alex Bisono aboard. It was the fastest of 22 drills at the distance. [more]
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On Fire Baby skipping Martha Washington
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With the ultimate goal being a race at some point on May 4 or 5 at Churchill Downs, trainer Gary 'Red Dog' Hartlage says he will point dual Grade 2 victress On Fire Baby toward stakes for both colts and fillies, but he won't aim her for next Saturday's $75,000 Martha Washington at Oaklawn Park. [more]
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Soaring Empire confirmed for Donn
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Soaring Empire breezed five furlongs in 1:01 flat Friday morning over the fast main track at Gulfstream Park, and trainer Cam Gambolati confirmed him as a probable starter in the Grade 1, $500,000 Donn Handicap to be run February 11 at 1 1/8 miles. [more]
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Heitzmann running for Remember Me Rescue
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What a miraculous comeback year it has been for Fair Grounds-based horsewoman Carmel Heitzmann. Severely injured when kicked by a horse in front of the Fair Grounds stands last February 17, Heitzmann's life was in jeopardy during those first critical hours and days, but following exploratory surgery that led to the removal of 24 inches of her colon, the wife of local trainer Eric Heitzmann was released from the hospital 10 days later. [more]
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Summit of Speed highlights Calder's stakes schedule
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Calder Race Course announced its stakes schedules for the 2012 Calder and Tropical meets on Friday. The Miami Gardens, Florida, venue will begin this year's live racing season on April 9 and host two consecutive meets -- the 85-day Calder Meet from April 9 to August 31 and the 65-day Tropical Meet from September 1 to December 2. [more]
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Preakness InfieldFest acts announced
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The Maryland Jockey Club on Friday announced that the 2012 Preakness InfieldFest will include performances by Grammy Award nominees Maroon 5 and Wiz Khalifa. Both artists will play extended sets on the main stage in the public infield on May 19 at Pimlico when the Maryland Jockey Club, North America's oldest sporting organization, hosts the 137th renewal of the Preakness Stakes. [more]
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Hansen, Union Rags tied at 126 atop Experimental
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Hansen, last year's undefeated champion two-year-old male and winner of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile, and Union Rags, who won the Grade 1 Champagne Stakes and finished second to Hansen in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile, have received the high weight assignment of 126 pounds on The Jockey Club's 2011 Experimental Free Handicap, released Thursday by The Jockey Club. [more]
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Animal Kingdom to prep for World Cup at Tampa Bay
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Team Valor International CEO Barry Irwin and trainer Graham Motion have settled on the Grade 3 Tampa Bay Stakes for champion Animal Kingdom's return race on February 25 at Tampa Bay Downs. [more]
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Rapid Redux to be honored at Laurel
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The Maryland Jockey Club will honor the connections of Rapid Redux on February 18. Rapid Redux has won 22 consecutive races, including a perfect 19-for-19 season a year ago and took home a pair of national awards last month. [more]
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Penn National offering lucrative open stakes
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The 40th running of the $200,000 Pennsylvania Governor's Cup at five furlongs on the turf is the highlight of a record $1.95 million stakes schedule announced by Penn National Race Course on Tuesday. [more]
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HBO renews 'Luck' for second season
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HBO has renewed the drama LUCK for a second season, it was announced Tuesday [more]
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Havre de Grace probably won't attempt Apple Blossom repeat
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Horse of the Year Havre de Grace, who captured the Grade 1 Apple Blossom Handicap early in her championship campaign, is unlikely to attempt a title defense at Oaklawn Park April 13, owner Rick Porter said on his Fox Hill Farm website Monday. [more]
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El Padrino overhauls Take Charge Indy
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The Grade 3 Holy Bull Stakes wasn't the only contest with potential Kentucky Derby implications at Gulfstream Park on Sunday. Three races earlier, promising three-year-olds lined up in an entry-level optional claimer carded as the 7TH, and the Todd Pletcher-trained El Padrino rolled to a good-looking score over Take Charge Indy. [more]
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Unzip Me guts out Wishing Well victory
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Unzip Me switched leads a few times in the lane of Sunday's $86,600 Wishing Well Stakes at Santa Anita, but never gave up in gutting out a half-length victory under jockey Rafael Bejarano. [more]
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Mucho Macho Man, Awesome Feather well following seasonal debut wins
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Florida Sunshine Millions winners Mucho Macho Man, Awesome Feather and Little Mike all came out of Saturday's races at Gulfstream Park in good order, according to their trainers Sunday morning. [more]
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Zimmerman grateful to mount a comeback at Fair Grounds
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Jockey Ramsey Zimmerman knew that coming back to Fair Grounds this winter would not be easy. [more]
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Mucho Macho Man returns a winner; Awesome Feather flies home in Distaff
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Stronach Stables' Awesome Feather continued her stellar run on Saturday with a 5 3/4-length victory in the $300,000 Florida Sunshine Millions Distaff at Gulfstream Park. [more]
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Little Mike wires Turf; Hooh Why upsets F&M Turf
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Priscilla Vaccarezza's homebred Little Mike continued his love affair with the Gulfstream Park turf course by wiring Saturday's $150,000 Florida Sunshine Millions Turf. [more]
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Soaring Stocks gets up late; It's Me Mom leads all the way
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Soaring Stocks and It's Me Mom utilized different tactics, but both proved successful on the Sunshine Millions program at Gulfstream Park Saturday, winning the $150,000 Sprint and $150,000 Filly & Mare Sprint, respectively [more]
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Compari captures second Sensational Star
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Saturday's $100,000 Sensational Star Stakes at Santa Anita lost considerable star power with the scratch of multiple Grade 2 winner Carocortado due to foot issues, but reaching the winner's circle was another graded stakes veteran, Compari, who came through between rivals in the stretch to win by 1 1/4 lengths in the about 6 1/2-furlong test on the firm turf. [more]
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TRF creates new program for NYRA OTTBs
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Organizations from every corner of the Thoroughbred industry have come together to support a new program created by the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation (TRF) to develop second careers for horses racing at New York Racing Association (NYRA) tracks. [more]
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Rachel Alexandra and foal doing fine
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Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra and her six-day old colt by fellow dual Horse of the Year Curlin, were taken to the Rood and Riddle Equine Clinic in Lexington, Kentucky, as a precautionary measure after her delivery for pain management related to the birth. [more]
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Boys at Tosconova makes it three straight in his seasonal bow
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Jay Em Ess Stables et al's Boys at Tosconova continued his comeback in winning fashion on Friday when holding Groupie Doll by three parts of a length in the 4TH race at Gulfstream Park. [more]
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Unbeaten Black Caviar breezes to 17th victory
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Supermare Black Caviar returned to action with an effortless victory in Friday's Group 2 Australia Stakes at Moonee Valley, bringing her career record to a flawless 17-for-17. [more]
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Weekend work scheduled for Alpha ahead of Withers
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Godolphin Racing's promising sophomore Alpha will likely turn in a work for next Saturday's Grade 3, $200,000 Withers Stakes on either Sunday or Monday at Belmont Park. [more]
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Maiden winner Apprehender now Southwest bound
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On a raw, stormy day, Apprehender was like a lightning strike in his debut at Oaklawn Park on Thursday and showed he is a contender for the Grade 3, $250,000 Southwest Stakes on February 20. [more]
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Lone Star Park releases 2012 stakes schedule
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Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas, announced the track's 2012 Spring Thoroughbred Season features 12 stakes, down from 19 in 2011, including two graded stakes, with purses totaling $1.3 million. [more]
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Musir extends winning streak to three in Al Rashidiya
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Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa al Maktoum's homebred Musir has been a fixture at the Dubai Carnival for the past couple of years, but not until Thursday's Group 2, $200,000 Al Rashidiya did he switch to the Meydan turf. [more]
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Kirkwoods purchase promising filly Silver Hustler
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The electrifying debut by Silver Hustler last Saturday at Oaklawn Park sent trainer Grant Forster's phone into overdrive, and while a winning offer came through for the three-year-old filly, she will stay in her same stall with Forster eyeing the Grade 3, $125,000 Honeybee and the Grade 2, $300,000 Fantasy Stakes later this meet. [more]
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Dubai World Cup attracts 271 nominees
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The list of nominees for the Group 1 Dubai World Cup features an international cast of some of racing's current and rising stars, as well as a number of trainers who have previously won the world's richest race. [more]
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Twinspires.com offering Kindle Fire, $250 cash for referrals
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TwinSpires.com, the official advance-deposit wagering service for Churchill Downs Inc. (CDI), is offering its players a major incentive for encouraging their friends to use TwinSpires.com. The "Fire Up 5" program will reward players who refer five friends to TwinSpires.com in 2012 with a Kindle Fire tablet and $250 in cash. [more]
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Stephanoatsee sidelined by pastern injury
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Count Fleet Stakes runner-up Stephanoatsee is off the Kentucky Derby trail due an injured pastern bone, trainer Graham Motion said Tuesday. [more]
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Arlington St Leger a new addition to Arlington stakes slate
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The International Festival of Racing, featuring the 30th running of the Grade 1 Arlington Million, tops a 2012 schedule that includes 26 stakes races worth $5.8 million during 90 days of racing at Arlington Park from May 4 through September 30. The stakes schedule must first be approved by the Illinois Racing Board at its January meeting. [more]
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Forty-two Canadian stakes graded for 2012
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The Jockey Club of Canada's Graded Stakes Committee held its annual review of the graded stakes in Canada, and has announced there will be a total of 42 graded stakes in 2012, up from 37 in 2011. [more]
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Sovereign Awards finalists announced
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The Jockey Club of Canada will host their 37th Annual Sovereign Awards Ceremony to honor the Canadian champions of 2011 on April 5 on the third floor of Woodbine Race Track in Toronto. Woodbine Entertainment Group will join in the celebration as they get ready to kick-off their 2012 live Thoroughbred meet on April 6, a date which represents the start of Thoroughbred racing in Canada. [more]
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Nominations for Dubai World Cup night revealed
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On Monday, the Dubai Racing Club published the complete list of nominations for the March 31 World Cup card at Meydan. Horses from a grand total of 24 countries hold engagements for the world's richest race meeting, comprising eight Thoroughbred races and one Purebred Arabian contest. [more]
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Breeders' Cup returns to NBC
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The Breeders' Cup and the NBC Sports Group Monday announced a multi-year media rights partnership beginning with the 2012 Breeders' Cup World Championships, November 2-3, from Santa Anita Park, featuring the first-ever running of the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic in primetime. [more]
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Jockeys' Guild, Churchill reach agreement
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The Jockeys' Guild and Churchill Downs Incorporated (CDI) have reached a multi-year agreement to support the Guild and its member jockeys. [more]
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Bankable dies of colic in South Africa
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South Africa's Summerhill Stud reports that Group 2 hero Bankable recently died of colic after standing his first season at stud. The son of Medicean was just eight years old. [more]
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Rachel Alexandra foals a colt by Curlin
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Rachel Alexandra, the 2009 Horse of the Year, produced her first foal on Sunday, a colt by two-time Horse of the Year Curlin. [more]
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Dayatthespa flies home in Sweetest Chant
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Dayatthespa came with a powerful rally in midstretch to run away with the $100,000 Sweetest Chant Stakes on Gulfstream Park's firm turf Sunday. [more]
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Midnight Transfer up in time in San Pedro
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Warren B. Williamson's Midnight Transfer, who blew away maiden rivals on opening day at Santa Anita, impressed in a different way in his stakes debut in Sunday's $82,500 San Pedro Stakes. [more]
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Lecomte top three bound for Risen Star rematch
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Trainer Larry Jones was all smiles during training hours at Fair Grounds Sunday morning -- and that for at least two reasons. Late Saturday afternoon, Jones saddled former Kentucky Governor Brereton Jones' Mr. Bowling to register a tenacious head victory in Fair Grounds' Grade 3 Lecomte Stakes in the centerpiece race of Fair Grounds' Road to the Derby Kickoff Day. [more]
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Howe Great skates home in Kitten's Joy
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Team Valor International and trainer Graham Motion appeared to have a stranglehold on Saturday's $100,000 Kitten's Joy Stakes at Gulfstream Park. [more]
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Believe You Can wires Silverbulletday
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Brereton C. Jones' homebred Believe You Can suffered a slight setback when a tiring sixth in the Grade 2 Pocahontas Stakes on October 30 at Churchill Downs, but got back on the winning track Saturday while making her sophomore bow in the $120,000 Silverbulletday Stakes on Fair Grounds' Road to the Derby Kickoff Day. [more]
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Singapore's Ip Man sets track record at Meydan
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Singapore-based trainer Steven Burridge has made a flying start to the 2012 Dubai World Cup Carnival and saddled his third winner from only four runners when Ip Man broke the track record in the concluding featured handicap at Meydan on Saturday. [more]
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First City just foils Mahbooba in Cape Verdi
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English Group 1-placed First City had finished first in just two of 23 starts in Europe, but wasted no time in opening her Dubai account with a photo-finish upset of Mahbooba in Friday's Group 2, $200,000 Cape Verdi at Meydan. [more]
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Ashland, Jenny Wiley purses boosted
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Five Grade 1 stakes, among them the Blue Grass, Ashland and the newly upgraded Jenny Wiley Stakes, headline the 16 stakes worth $3.625 million slated for Keeneland's 2012 spring race meeting. [more]
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Churchill Downs announces dates for Derby, Oaks Future Wager pools
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Churchill Downs has set the dates for its trio of three-day betting pools for its 2012 Kentucky Derby Future Wager (KDFW) and a single pool for the historic track's Kentucky Oaks Future Wager (KOFW). [more]
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Study shows economic benefit of casino gaming in Kentucky
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The Kentucky Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday released preliminary findings from a statewide study commissioned by a partnership of Kentucky horse industry interests. The study, conducted by the independent research firm Spectrum Gaming Group, shows the economic impact of adding casino-style gaming [more]
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All hail Havre de Grace, Horse of the Year
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HAVRE DE GRACE joined an elite group on Monday as she became the third straight female to earn Horse of the Year honors at the Eclipse Awards ceremony held in Beverly Hills, California. The bay mare won in a landslide, joining last year's Horse of the Year, Zenyatta, and 2009 honoree Rachel Alexandra in defeating her male counterparts as best of 2011. [more]
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