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A 10-length winner of her Belmont unveiling as the 2-5 pick May 20, Miss Alacrity preserved her unbeaten record with a first stakes triumph in her first try on grass in the Colleen S. at Monmouth Park on August 1. Once again the crowd’s pick but at slightly higher odds, the chestnut battled with two rivals to […]

The July 17 “Arlington Million Preview Day” succeeded in many respects—drawing a big crowd to the track amid perfect weather, rewarding one of the track’s most successful trainers and another working his way up and identifying a likely candidate for the grade 1 races there Aug. 14. Naval Laughter scored in the $100,000 Modesty Stakes (G3T), […]

Excellent Timing gave part-owner Michael Dubb an early birthday present Sunday while giving him, his fellow owners and trainer Chad Brown a lot to ponder as winter turns into spring. In his first start for Dubb, Sol Kumin’s Madaket Stables, and Marc and Joe Lore’s Wonder Stable following a private purchase last December, Excellent Timing cruised […]

New York has its own road to the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (G1), but it seems to be running through Bensalem, Pa. A second straight Kentucky Derby qualifying points race in New York went to a Parx Racing-based runner Jan. 1 as Bing Cherry Racing and Leonard Liberto’s Capo Kane cruised on the front end […]

He’s raced at Fonner Park, Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races, Canterbury Park, and Remington Park, to name some of the 11 racetracks he has visited in a 15-race career. He’s been tested at 6 1/2 furlongs, 1 1/8 miles, and 1 1/2 miles on turf. And after a little more than two years of […]

There is no trainer more thankful than Ray Ashford that the turf course was shut down by Remington Park when it was this fall. After that, he sent Dipping In to the main dirt surface here and she went 2-for-2, including a win in the $70,000 Useeit Stakes on Friday, December 18, her first black-type victory. This stakes triumph […]

WinStar Farm and China Horse Club Inc.’s debuting Prime Factor, a $900,000 purchase out of the Legacy Bloodstock consignment at the 2019 Keeneland September yearling sale – the joint-second priciest Quality Road yearling to sell that year – was off as the 21-10 second choice and turned his first trip to the post into a one-horse affair en […]

Favored Sleepy Eyes Todd rallied under Joel Rosario and knifed his way through stretch traffic to post a 1 1/2-length victory over True Timber. Edgemont Road was third. The winner, a 4-year-old son of Paddy O’Prado owned by Thumbs Up Racing and trained by Miguel Angel Silva, raced seven furlongs in 1:21.77. The son o Bred in Kentucky […]

Pirate’s Punch left no doubt about the outcome this time. Disqualified from first for interference in the stretch in the Aug. 22 Philip Iselin Stakes (G3), Pirate’s Punch drew away coming out of the final turn to win the $155,000 Salvator Mile Stakes (G3) by two lengths Sept. 20 at Monmouth Park. Now it’s on to […]

Racehorse owner Joey Platts went to the Keeneland September Yearling Sale with several goals, one of which was to buy a filly by leading sire Into Mischief. Outbid earlier in the week, Platts, who was accompanied by trainer Phil D’Amato, struck early during the Sept. 18 session to take home a daughter of the Spendthrift […]