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Eleven Attempt To Sing Winning Tune In Bing Crosby
July 28, 2018 | Margaret RansomDefending Champ Ransom The Moon Faces Tough Test, Including Champion Roy H By Margaret Ransom There may not be a single name more synonymous with summer racing at Del Mar than “Bing”. Academy Award winner, singer and legendary entertainer Bing Crosby built the beautiful ocean-view racetrack with a few of his celebrity pals. And […]
Undefeated Triple Crown Champ Justify Retired
July 25, 2018 | Margaret RansomThirteenth Triple Crown Winner Retires With Six Career Victories By Margaret Ransom WinStar Farm, China Horse Club, Head of Plains Partners and Starlight Racing’s Triple Crown winner Justify has been retired after a perfect record of six wins from six starts and earnings of $3,798,000. The handsome son of Scat Daddy developed some filling […]
Accelerate Favored To Repeat In San Diego
July 20, 2018 | Margaret RansomSadler Trainee Sits Atop The Division Heading Into This Year’s San Diego By Margaret Ransom Nine will go to the gate for Saturday’s $200,000 San Diego Handicap (GII), the traditional prep for the Pacific Classic in a month’s time and a rare event for the older male runner division in that horse are assigned […]
Del Mar Set For 79th Season Of Racing By The Sea
July 18, 2018 | Margaret RansomPopular Seven-Week Summer Meet Underway Today By Margaret Ransom A 10-race card, led by the traditional opening-day feature — the $100,000 Oceanside Stakes for sophomore turf runners — kicks off the 2018 meet at the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club in Solana Beach, California, on Wednesday. The track, where the turf literally meets the surf, was built […]
Short, Talent-Stocked Field Set For Los Alamitos Derby
July 13, 2018 | Margaret RansomFive Set For Closing Weekend Feature By Margaret Ransom The names of just five runners were dropped into the entry box for Saturday’s $150,000 Los Alamitos Derby, which is now in its fourth year Los Al after being run at Hollywood Park as the Swaps Stakes since its inception in the mid-1970s. Included in […]
Mixed Bag Of Runners Set For Hoosier State’s Derby
July 13, 2018 | Margaret RansomNine Expected To Line Up for Indiana Derby by Margaret Ransom A field of nine is expected to line up for Saturday’s for the 24th running of the $500,000 Indiana Derby (GIII) at Indiana Grand in Shelbyville, IN, with Thomas Conway’s King Zachary earning early 6-5 morning line favoritism off his impressive 4 ¾-length […]
Millionaires, Shippers Highlight Belmont’s Suburban
July 7, 2018 | Margaret Ransom2017 Belmont Stakes Winner, Baffert Duo Early Favorites By Margaret Ransom It used to be that the Suburban (GII) was a must-stop on the handicap campaigns of all of the best older East Coast stars — the last big race in New York for horses that carried weight before barns shipped north to Saratoga […]
Belmont Sprint Draws Six Looking For Breeders’ Cup Sprint Berth
July 7, 2018 | Margaret RansomBelmont Feature a “Win and You’re In” Qualifier by Margaret Ransom Saturday’s $350,000 Belmont Sprint Championship (GII), a Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series “Win and You’re In” race offering all fees paid to the winner for the Breeder’s Cup Sprint (GI) in November at Churchill Downs, is just one of five stakes races offered on the […]
Queen’s Plate Kicks Off Canadian Triple Crown
June 30, 2018 | Margaret RansomOverflow Field Set For Woodbine Feature By Margaret Ransom Saturday marks the 159th running of the Queen’s Plate at Woodbine, the most prestigious race for sophomores contested north of the American/Canadian border and also the race with the longest consecutively run streak in North America. Named for the sitting monarch in Britain (currently a Queen, it will […]
Mother Goose Takes Saturday Spotlight At Belmont Park
June 30, 2018 | Margaret RansomSeven Sophomore Fillies Test Second Leg Of New York Filly Triple Tiara By Margaret Ransom This year marks the 62nd running of the historic Mother Goose Stakes (GII), the second leg of the New York Filly Triple Tiara. Since Monomoy Girl, who won the Acorn Stakes (GI) back on June 9, won’t be in the Mother […]
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