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Live Racing Finally Returns To The Big Apple Wednesday
June 1, 2020 | Margaret RansomBeaugay Stakes Featuring Rushing Fall, Got Stormy Is Opening Day Feature By Margaret Ransom Live racing returns to Belmont Park on Wednesday, June 3, after a 2 ½ month break due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with a 10-race card featuring the $100,000 Beaugay Stakes (GIIIT), a 1 1/16-mile event set to be contested […]
Maxfield Favored For Long-Awaited Return In Matt Winn at Churchill Downs
May 21, 2020 | Margaret RansomEighty Five Points On The Line For Churchill’s First Own 2020 Derby Prep By Margaret Ransom Godolphin’s homebred Maxfield, unraced since winning the Breeders’ Futurity (GI) at Keeneland nearly eight months ago, will face 11 other sophomores in Saturday’s $150,000 Matt Winn Stakes (GIII), presented by Woodford Reserve, on Saturday at Churchill […]
Churchill Downs Set For 2020 Return, 11-Race Card Packed With Talent
May 12, 2020 | Margaret RansomFan-Favored Monomoy Girl Makes First Start in 18 Months By Margaret Ransom Champion Monomoy Girl will make her long-awaited return to action as one of the 162 horses expected to run on Saturday’s opening day card for the 2020 Spring Meet at Churchill Downs. Eleven races were drawn, which boasts an average field size […]
Florida Derby Defies Pandemic, Draws Full Field
March 27, 2020 | Margaret RansomThree Division Leaders Star In Sunshine State’s Feature Event By Margaret Ransom Sackatoga Stable’s Holy Bull Stakes winner Tiz The Law is the early 6-5 favorite in a full field of 12 for Saturday’s $750,000 Curlin Florida Derby (GI) at Gulfstream Park, the last prep event for the September 5 Kentucky Derby (GI) for […]
Louisiana Derby Draws Full Field To Elevate Derby Fever
March 19, 2020 | Margaret RansomFair Grounds Soldiers On Through Global Crisis, Offers Fans Exceptional Card By Margaret Ransom Lecomte Stakes (GIII) winner Enforceable was labeled the early 7-2 morning line favorite for Saturday’s $1 million Twin Spires Louisiana Derby (GII) at Fair Grounds in New Orleans. John Oxley’s well-bred son of leading sire Tapit and the multiple […]
New York Derby Preps Shift Into Gear With Saturday’s Gotham
March 6, 2020 | Margaret RansomEleven Will Race A Mile In Wood Memorial Prep By Margaret Ransom Cash is King and LC Racing’s Mischevious Alex seven-length Swale Stakes winner was labeled the tepid 3-1 favorite in Saturday’s $300,000 Gotham Stakes (GIII) at Aqueduct. The son of Into Mischief will face a field of ten other sophomores in the […]
Risen Star Split, Draws Talented Fields For Both Divisions
February 13, 2020 | Margaret RansomWell-Bred Tapit Colt Is Early Favorite In First Division By Margaret Ransom Last month’s Lecomte Stakes (GIII) winner Enforceable and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (GI) runner-up Anneau d’Or the two divisions of Saturday’s Risen Star (GII), presented by Lamarque Ford-Lincoln at Fair Grounds. Both divisions drew nearly full and talented fields of sophomores whose connections […]
Rachel Alexandra Stakes, Worth 50 Kentucky Oaks Points, Attracts Seven
February 13, 2020 | Margaret RansomLouisiana-Based Fillies Take Next Step Toward Kentucky Oaks By Margaret Ransom Seven talented fillies whose connections are no doubt eyeing the May 1 Kentucky Oaks (G1) will race 1 1/16 miles in the $300,000 Rachel Alexandra Stakes (GII) at Fair Grounds on Saturday. Champion and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (GI) fillies heroine British Idiom will […]
Los Al’s Starlet, Futurity Provide Last Hurrah For Southern California Juveniles
December 6, 2019 | Margaret RansomBaffert Seeks To Extend Domination In Both Races By Margaret Ransom With Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (GI) and likely champion British Idiom tucked away for the rest of 2019, a handful of races remain to be claimed in the division, including Saturday’s $300,000 Starlet Stakes (GI) at Los Alamitos. Both Donna Veloce and Bast, […]
Maximum Security, Spun To Run Lead Cigar Mile
December 5, 2019 | Margaret RansomEleven Will Line Up For Aqueduct Saturday Feature By Margaret Ransom Multiple grade 1 winner and disqualified Kentucky Derby (GI) hero Maximum Security will face off against a talented field of ten others, including Breeders’ Cup Mile (GI) hero Spun to Run, in Saturday’s $750,000 Cigar Mile Handicap on Saturday at Aqueduct. The Jason Servis-trained […]