Breeders’ Cup In Review: Cody’s Wish Goes Out On Top

Two hundred five horses pre-entered the fourteen Breeders' Cup races. One hundred seventy-five were in the entry box. One hundred fifty-one started. And fourteen horses entered the winner's circle as Breeders' Cup winners. Justify cemented his status as a star sire with two juvenile daughters remaining unbeaten in their races on Friday - with Just …

Roses For Debra Changes Plans, Faces Males at Parx

Originally entered on Monday for a graded sprint on the Presque Isle synthetic, plans were changed and now a gray filly will face males sprinting on the Parx turf. But this is Roses for Debra, who is in action in the East while Caravel is in Kentucky awaiting a turf sprint there. Should she run …

Tamara Dominates Debutante

Beholder got off to a slow start as a broodmare, with her first two foals failing to win. Her third foal is a graded stakes winner sprinting on the turf, and her fourth, a Bolt d'Oro filly, is now two-for-two and a grade one winner. Her fifth is a Curlin colt who brought several million …

Saratoga Ends with Major Upset

Runhappy's Nutella Fella upset the G1 Hopeful and is now unbeaten in two starts after downing favorites from both the Pletcher and Baffert barns. Nutella Fella, a bay colt from the Candy Ride mare Krissy's Candy, is from the barn of Gary Contessa. Brightwork was also not favored but managed to defeat favored Ways and …

Pacific Classic v. Jockey Club Gold Cup

Two 1 1/4 mile races leading to the November 4 Breeders' Cup Classic will run on opposing coasts on Saturday. The G1 Pacific Classic at Del Mar drew eleven, of which three are sophomores. All have graded stakes experience, several with recent grade one results. The G1 Jockey Club Gold Cup at Saratoga drew eight, …

Kentucky Downs Has European Flavor

Just inside Kentucky and off I-65, just a few hundred yards from the Tennessee border, is a turf-only racecourse with unique corners that gives off European vibes. The National Steeplechase courses are also turf-only, but only Kentucky Downs is a flat course dedicated to the typical turf athlete in America - the flat running racehorse. …

Meet of Death

Is it the surface? Is it training methods? Or the pedigrees of the two high-profile deaths at Saratoga? No one can say for certain. Only that on the biggest day at Saratoga and on another major race day three weeks earlier, the would-be winners of the grade one seven-furlong sprints for three-year-olds both suffered catastrophic …

Roses for Debra Wins Again

Roses for Debra, the G3 Caress winner, took home the Smart N Fancy by three and a quarter lengths this afternoon at Saratoga, proving that she can handle a slight cut in the ground; the course was rated good and most of the other turf races were moved to the dirt, which is muddy. The …

Saratoga Flush With Grade Ones

Saturday is Travers Day, and five grade one contests are due to be held there for a variety of horses. While the older female routing horses have the spotlight to themselves on Friday, the three-year-old colts will be sharing it with the older sprinters - fillies in the G1 Ballerina, colts in the G1 Forego …

Awakened At Home Over Hurdles

It took him ten starts to break his maiden over the flat, but when that victory came at age four going a mile and a quarter on the turf, he was gelded and moved to a different barn. His next win came in a two-mile race at Colonial, and then his first hurdle victory immediately …