Lady’s Picks
Belmont’s Stars and Stripes Festival Winners Highlight Breeders’ Cup Hopefuls
July 9, 2017 | Margaret RansomBy Margaret Ransom There are still four months to go before the 34th running of the Breeders’ Cup World Championships, set to be held for the first time at the historic seaside oval of the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, but that hasn’t stopped several horses from making their intentions for the first Friday and Saturday of […]
Mind Your Biscuits A Tasty Treat in Belmont Sprint
July 8, 2017 | Margaret RansomBy Margaret Ransom Multiple Grade 1-winning millionaire and fan favorite Mind Your Biscuits likely isn’t just the featured player in Saturday’s Belmont Sprint Championship (GII) on the Stars and Stripes Festival cared, he might actually be the marquee name on the entire day as he makes his first start since his dominating three-length romp in […]
Twelve Fillies Vie For A Million Bucks in Belmont Oaks
July 7, 2017 | Margaret RansomBy Margaret Ransom At Belmont Park on Saturday, Eclipse Award winner Chad Brown will tighten the girths on a quartet of talented fillies for the $1 million Belmont Oaks Invitational (GIT), a 1 ¼-mile test for sophomore fillies that drew a field of contenders from around the globe. Brown is seeking his third win in four […]
A Closer Look at Arlington Million Preview Day
July 7, 2017 | track-adminBy Matt Hess Summer is starting to heat up here in Chicagoland, and so is the racing at Arlington International Racecourse. The biggest race day of the year is, of course, the Grade I Arlington Million. But this weekend’s Million Preview Day will feature some racing that may be just as compelling. For the fifth […]
Belmont Derby Stars in Stars and Stripes Festival at Belmont
July 7, 2017 | Margaret RansomBy Margaret Ransom Saturday’s talent-filled Stars and Stripes Racing Festival at Belmont Park, which offers an amazing five graded stakes worth purses of $3.7 million, takes the thoroughbred racing spotlight on Saturday. The internationally popular event is led by the featured $1.2 million Belmont Derby (GIT) and $1 million Belmont Oaks (GIT) and is supported […]
Queen’s Plate Kicks of Canadian Triple Crown
July 2, 2017 | Margaret RansomBy Margaret Ransom Today marks the 158th running of the Queen’s Plate at Woodbine, the most prestigious race for sophomores contested north of the border and also the race with the longest consecutively run streak in North America. Named for the sitting monarch in Britain (currently a queen, will revert to the King’s Plate when […]
Was Charles Town Scratch of 11-Year-Old Warranted?
June 29, 2017 | track-adminBy Derek Simon This week, social media was all abuzz over a horse named Awesome Actor, who was entered in Thursday’s fourth race — a waiver claiming (think starter allowance) event — at Charles Town Racetrack in Charles Town, West Virginia. I say “was” because, thanks in large part to pressure brought to bear by racing […]
Breeders’ Cup Champ Better Talk Now Succumbs to Complications From Colic
June 28, 2017 | Margaret RansomUntil We Meet Again (reprinted with permission from Herringswell Stables) By Maggie Kimmitt We begin this day with the heaviest hearts, so saddened to have to share this news. Our gallant, beloved Better Talk Now was euthanized late last evening at New Bolton Center. Complications from intestinal surgery had become too much to overcome. Blackie […]
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 […]
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