The brightest star on the 3-year-old racing season in Dubai is the Congrats filly Polar River, who toyed with her competition in Thursday’s 1,000 Guineas S., dusting an over-matched group by about 13 lengths in very easy fashion while upping her undefeated record to 3-for-3. Congrats, who was a top-10 sire by winners in 2015, […]
[ Read More ]Pioneerof the Nile’s Cash Control collected her seventh win in 12 lifetime starts in the $60,000 Daisy Devine S. at Fair Grounds’ Race Course. The winner, a 5-year-old Bert and Richard Klein homebred, won the Tiffany Lass S. over the same course in December, and now has banked a total of $245,700. The 1 1/16-mile […]
[ Read More ]The fourth annual Fantasy Derby Challenge, presented by WinStar StableMates, kicks off this Friday, February 12. The free handicapping contest follows prominent 3-year-old Thoroughbreds on the road to the Kentucky Derby, and culminates after nine weeks with the Arkansas Derby (G1) at Oaklawn Park on April 16, 2016. “We are very excited to bring […]
[ Read More ]Cadet Roni proved much the best in the $75,000 Wishing Well S. Sunday at Santa Anita Park, splashing to a 6 ¾-length victory in the 6 ½-furlong contest that was rained off the turf. Colonel John ranked in the top 5 on both the First and Second Year Sire lists the past two seasons and […]
[ Read More ]The Jockey Club released the 2015 Experimental Free Handicap on Jan. 29, and Colonel John was the only stallion to have more than one 2-year-old colt ranked in the top 12 horses on the prestigious list. The Experimental Free Handicap, published annually since 1935, is a weight-based assessment of the previous year’s leading 2-year-olds, with […]
[ Read More ]Speightstown’s talented and consistent son Coastline notched the second stakes win of his career Sunday in Santa Anita Park’s $75,000 Clocker’s Corner S., winning the downhill, about 6 ½-furlong turf contest by 1 ¼-lengths with a big surge in the final furlong. The final time of 1:06.25 earned the big gray a lifetime best Beyer […]
[ Read More ]Congrat’s Haveyougoneaway found an opening along the rail in the stretch on the way to her neck victory in Saturday’s $100,000 American Beauty S. at Oaklawn Park. The victory was the second stakes win for the 5-year-old, who has been off the board only five times in 20 lifetime starts, with seven wins and $312,425 […]
[ Read More ]Colonel John’s Teniente Coronel turned in the best performance of his career in the $70,000 Freemont S. at Delta Downs, rolling to a comfortable 2 ¾-length win after opening up by some five lengths in the stretch (VIDEO). The five-year-old earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 98 for the Saturday night feature, and upped his […]
[ Read More ]Constellation dominated her foes in Sunday’s $100,000 Ruthless S. at Aqueduct by a whopping 10 lengths to give the WinStar-bred 3-year-old filly her second straight commanding stakes victory. The daughter of Bellamy Road got token pressure in the first quarter mile, but pulled away in had under Irad Ortiz, Jr. to stop the timer in […]
[ Read More ]The final crowning achievement on American Pharoah’s historic racing career came on Saturday evening when the recently-retired son of Pioneerof the Nile was honored with Eclipse Awards for 2015 Horse of the Year and 3-year-old Male. The ceremony at Gulfstream Park was filled with joy, even if the results were hardly surprising following American Pharoah’s […]
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