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Belmont Derby Stars in Stars and Stripes Festival at Belmont
July 7, 2017 | Margaret RansomBy Margaret Ransom Saturday’s talent-filled Stars and Stripes Racing Festival at Belmont Park, which offers an amazing five graded stakes worth purses of $3.7 million, takes the thoroughbred racing spotlight on Saturday. The internationally popular event is led by the featured $1.2 million Belmont Derby (GIT) and $1 million Belmont Oaks (GIT) and is supported […]
Queen’s Plate Kicks of Canadian Triple Crown
July 2, 2017 | Margaret RansomBy Margaret Ransom Today marks the 158th running of the Queen’s Plate at Woodbine, the most prestigious race for sophomores contested north of the border and also the race with the longest consecutively run streak in North America. Named for the sitting monarch in Britain (currently a queen, will revert to the King’s Plate when […]
Breeders’ Cup Champ Better Talk Now Succumbs to Complications From Colic
June 28, 2017 | Margaret RansomUntil We Meet Again (reprinted with permission from Herringswell Stables) By Maggie Kimmitt We begin this day with the heaviest hearts, so saddened to have to share this news. Our gallant, beloved Better Talk Now was euthanized late last evening at New Bolton Center. Complications from intestinal surgery had become too much to overcome. Blackie […]
Diamond Jubilee Stakes Highlights Royal Ascot Closing Day
June 24, 2017 | Margaret RansomBy Margaret Ransom Saturday marks the final day of the prestigious annual Royal Ascot meeting at Ascot Racecourse outside London and after a week of fallen records, both in temperatures and course records, only one Group 1 race remains on the six-race closing day card. The weather has returned to more typical London-type conditions and […]
Dartmouth Seeks to Defend Title in Hardwicke
June 23, 2017 | Margaret RansomBy Margaret Ransom A field of 14 will go postward in the third race on closing day at Royal Ascot — the 1 ½-mile Hardwicke Stakes (GII) for 4-year-olds and upward. The Queen’s Dartmouth, who won this event last year, is back to defend his title off a win in the Yorkshire Cup (GII) at […]
Highland Reel Proves Best in Prince of Wales’s at Royal Ascot
June 22, 2017 | Margaret RansomBy Margaret Ransom Magnier, Tabor and Smith’s Longines Breeders’ Cup Turf (GI) hero Highland Reel, who may be the most well-traveled racehorse in the world, having been to America, the Far East and Australia, returned home to Great Britain and captured the richest race of the current Royal Ascot meeting, taking top honors by 1 […]
Breeders’ Cup Champs Take Spotlight in Prince of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot
June 20, 2017 | Margaret RansomBy Margaret Ransom The heat and firm course conditions continue at Royal Ascot for Wednesday’s six-race card, which features four group events and the Prince of Wales’s Stakes (GI) as the main event of the day. The 1 ¼-mile affair, named in 1892 for the Prince of Wales and now run in honor of the […]
Royal Ascot Opening Day Sees Records, Local Favorites Fall; American Favorite Wins
June 20, 2017 | Margaret RansomBy Margaret Ransom Day one at Royal Ascot brought out all things for the racing fan — from course records, to the best miler in Europe winning in record time, to the American Lady Aurelia returning to England, and the upset of Europe’s reigning king of the turf. And, for the first time, American racing […]
Heat, Firm Conditions Mark Royal Ascot Opening Day; Lady Aurelia, Churchill Heavily Favored
June 19, 2017 | Margaret RansomBy Margaret Ransom A year ago, Royal Ascot racegoers — as well as horseman — braced themselves for rain of biblical proportions. This year, everyone headed toward Berkshire, England, is bracing themselves for an unusual heat wave at least through Wednesday with highs reaching into the upper 80s. Anyone who knows anything about London area […]
Gun Runner Wins For Funner in Foster
June 18, 2017 | Margaret RansomBy Margaret Ransom Winchell Thoroughbreds and Three Chimneys Farm’s Gun Runner broke alertly from the gate, sped straight to the lead and never looked back en route to an impressive seven-length romp in Saturday’s $500,000 Stephen Foster Handicap (GI) at Churchill Downs. With regular jockey Florent Geroux in the irons, the chestnut son of Candy […]
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