Oaklawn Park Set For 2019 Racing Season

January 24, 2019 | Margaret Ransom

  Rich Overnight And Stakes Purses Lure Top Horses, Trainers, Jockeys To Arkansas By Margaret Ransom Oaklawn Park near Hot Springs, Arkansas, kicks off its 115th live racing season on Friday with a nine-race card and a post time of 12:30 p.m. CT. This year the meet will be contested over 57 days and offers […]

Happy New Year! A Look Back On 2018 In Pictures

December 31, 2018 | Margaret Ransom

  The Most Exciting Moments In Racing In Picttures For 2018 By LATT Staff The year 2018 was one for the record books from start to finish. We had a Triple Crown winner in Justify who not only went unraced as a 2-year-old, he didn’t make his first start until February, just 2 1/2 months […]

American Oaks Features Top Fillies in Final 2018 Grade 1

December 29, 2018 | Margaret Ransom

  Field Draws Runners From All Over The Country By Margaret Ransom In late 2001, the now defunct Hollywood Park presented a unique race to attract international horses and worldwide attention on a competitive level with some of the biggest races around the world, targeting a division that doesn’t exactly get a ton of love […]

Santa Anita Opening Day 2018 Numbers And Statistics

December 27, 2018 | Margaret Ransom

  Track’s 82nd Season Opens With Star Performances And Big Attendance/Handle Figures By Margaret Ransom Santa Anita’s 2018-2019 winter racing season got off to a tremendous start on Wednesday, with increased attendance and handle over a year ago. The 10-race card featured five stakes races, two being grade 1. Attendance: A total of 41,323 racing […]

Santa Anita Celebrates 82nd Season

December 25, 2018 | Margaret Ransom

  Legendary Track Nestled Beneath San Gabriel Mountains Offers Great Racing Start To Finish by Margaret Ransom Santa Anita Park kicks off its annual winter/spring season on a Wednesday this year, and while the actual date for opening day of the highly anticipated season remains the same, a lot has changed at the Great Race […]

Merry Christmas From LATT!

December 25, 2018 | Margaret Ransom

Eleven Set For Mr. Prospector At Gulfstream Park

December 21, 2018 | Margaret Ransom

Sprinters Set To Dash Seven Furlongs In Pre-Christmas Feature By Margaret Ransom Saturday’s $100,000 Mr. Prospector Stakes (GII) at Gulfstream Park drew a field of 11 sprinters whose connections are looking to get a last graded stakes victory of 2018 under their belts. The race is named for the great sire Mr. Prospector, who never […]

Millionaire Stallwalkin’ Dude Retired, Will Become OTTB Ambassador

December 14, 2018 | Margaret Ransom

  Multiple Grade 3 Winner Sent To Premier Equine Rehab In California By Margaret Ransom David Jacobsen and Head of Plains Partners LLC’s multiple grade 3-winning millionaire Stallwalkin’ Dude has been retired and has taken up residence at Premier Equine Rehab in Orange, California, where he will be both a trail horse and an OTTB […]

2018’s Most Amazing Moments In Racing

December 12, 2018 | Margaret Ransom

2018 Was An Exciting Year For Racing Fans, Led By A Triple Crown Winner By Margaret Ransom As 2018 comes to a conclusion it’s hard to believe that just more than six months ago we as racing fans in North America were treated to our 13th Triple Crown winner when the handsome Justify captured the […]

Accelerate Argues Case For Horse Of The Year With Classic Victory

November 3, 2018 | Margaret Ransom

Lookin’ At Lucky Horse Is First Breeders’ Cup Win for Sadler After Lengthy Drought In a year with a rare Triple Crown winner, Hronis Racing’s Accelerate made his own case for Horse of the Year with a one-length victory in the 35th running of the $5,358,000 million Breeders’ Cup Classic (GI) at Churchill Downs. In […]