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Oaklawn Set for 2021 Opening on Friday
January 21, 2021 | Margaret Ransom2021 Season Opens With Similar Look, Some Important And Significant Changes By Margaret Ransom Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas, will open for its 117th season of live racing on Friday with a nine-race card featuring the $150,000 Smarty Jones Stakes for 3-year-olds, the first stop on the state’s lucrative path to the Kentucky Derby (GI), […]
2020 Eclipse Awards Finalists Announced
January 16, 2021 | Margaret RansomAuthentic, Improbable, Monomoy Girl Are Horse of the Year Finalists Edited Press Release The 2020 Eclipse Awards finalists (in alphabetical order) are: Horse of the Year: Authentic, Improbable, Monomoy Girl Two-Year-Old Male: Essential Quality, Fire At Will, Jackie’s Warrior Two-Year-Old Filly: Aunt Pearl (IRE), Dayoutoftheoffice, Vequist Three-Year-Old Male: Authentic, Nadal, Tiz the Law Three-Year-Old Filly: Gamine, Shedaresthedevil, Swiss Skydiver […]
What’s In A Name: Christmas/Hanukkah Edition
December 23, 2020 | Margaret RansomBy Margaret Ransom The Christmas/Hanukkah holidays have produced some fun and festive Thoroughbred names registered with The Jockey Club since the organization started maintaining official registrations in 1894 and maintaining records through the American Stud Book in 1896. There have been 17 horses named Christmas registered in several countries throughout the years, the most […]
What’s In A Name: Thanksgiving Edition
November 27, 2020 | Margaret RansomThanksgiving Traditions Memorialized In The Jockey Club’s Archives By Margaret Ransom Since The Jockey Club started registering Thoroughbreds in 1894 and maintaining records through the American Stud Book two years later, fifteen horses have been registered with the name Thanksgiving, several of which were bred in foreign countries like Australia, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand and […]
Shop From And For Horse People For Holiday Gifts This Year
November 20, 2020 | LATT StaffShopping For The Horse Lover In Your Family Made Easy By LATT Staff Everyone has someone in their life who is, for lack of a better way to put it, just hard to buy gifts for, and nothing could be truer about horse lovers and equestrians as a group. Whether it be birthdays or Christmas […]
Saturday Breeders’ Cup Post Times, Wagering Menu, TV Schedule
November 7, 2020 | LATT StaffBy LATT Staff Once again NBC Sports will televise live coverage of the Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Keeneland in Lexington, Kentucky. Live coverage on Saturday, November 7 begins at noon ET on NBCSN before switching to NBC from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. ET. To wager, signing up with any of […]
Monomoy Girl, Swiss Skydiver Rivalry Likely A Distaff “One & Done”
November 6, 2020 | Margaret RansomNovember 6, 2020 Distaff Takes Spotlight On Breeders’ Cup Saturday Card By Margaret Ransom Everyone loves a good rivalry in horse racing. War Admiral vs. Seabiscut. Gallorette vs. Stymie. Affirmed vs. Alydar. Easy Goer vs. Sunday Silence. Beholder vs. Songbird. Zenyatta vs. Rachel Alexandra or Zenyatta vs., well, just about everyone else and Rachel […]
2020 Breeders’ Cup Horses – Gallery (11/4/20)
November 4, 2020 | LATT StaffHere are some pics of just a handful Breeders’ Cup contenders out for their morning exercise at Keeneland on Wednesday, November 4, 2020. All pics by Jordan Thomson.
Breeders’ Cup 2020 Television Schedule, Wagering Menu and Post Times
November 3, 2020 | LATT StaffBy LATT Staff Once again NBC Sports will televise live coverage of the Breeders’ Cup World Championships, which will be contested for the 37th time this Friday and Saturday at Keeneland in Lexington, Kentucky. Live coverage begins on Friday, November 6 at 2:00 p.m. and continues through 5:30 p.m. ET on NBCSN (NBC […]
Fields Set For Breeders’ Cup 2020
November 2, 2020 | LATT StaffBy LATT Staff/Breeders’ Cup Images The fields for the 14 races making up 37th running of the Breeders’ Cup World Championships have been set and the action gets underway with the five races that make up Future Stars Friday this Friday, November 6. The first race of the day at Keeneland will break […]
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