Lady’s Picks
A Yank’s Reflections on Royal Ascot
June 27, 2017 | track-adminBy Mary Perdue Why American horse racing fans should make this a bucket list item and what to expect For the first time ever, NBC Sports televised the entire five-day Royal Ascot meet June 20 through 24, giving American audiences a unique, in-depth experience of this annual one-of-a-kind event up close and personal. The on-site […]
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 […]
Gun Runner, Bird Song Lead Foster Field
June 16, 2017 | Margaret RansomBy Margaret Ransom Saturday’s $500,000 Stephen Foster Handicap (GI) at Churchill Downs marks the last grade 1 of the rich spring meet at the Louisville oval, but it also represents one of the last true handicaps left in North America. This year a field of eight will race the nine furlongs, with all of them […]
Tapwrit Closes Out 2017 Triple Crown Trail With Belmont Score
June 10, 2017 | Margaret RansomBy Margaret Ransom Bridlewood Farm, Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and Robert LaPenta’s Tapwrit closed out the 2017 Triple Crown series in style, capturing the $1.5 million NYRABets Belmont Stakes (GI) by two lengths over a field of nine sophomores that mostly represented a group of what amounted to the last men standing after a grueling sophomore […]
