Saratoga Report #2: Laoban Pulls off Jim Dandy Shocker
Three Stars of the Week – 1st Star: FLINTSHIRE – He’s just a brilliant race horse. Saturday’s four horse Grade 2 Bowling Green was not supposed to be much, but […]
Three Stars of the Week – 1st Star: FLINTSHIRE – He’s just a brilliant race horse. Saturday’s four horse Grade 2 Bowling Green was not supposed to be much, but […]
Three Stars of the Week – 1st Star: STELLAR WIND – This was a weekend filled with upsets, and while this was not a monumental upset like we saw at […] Read More
Spendthrift Farm’s brilliant Lord Nelson set a stakes record and barely missed Del Mar’s track mark for six furlongs with an overpowering performance in Sunday’s Grade I $300,000 Bing Crosby […] Read More
Off-track specialist Exaggerator goes from last to first to win the 2016 G1 Haskell Invitational over a sloppy Monmouth Park surface. Ridden by Kent Desormeaux for his brother, trainer Keith Desormeaux, Exaggerator […] Read More
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Jack Swain’s homebred Miss Ella earned her first victory of 2016 with style in Sunday’s $100,000 Caress for fillies and mares at Saratoga Race Course. Although the […] Read More
TORONTO, July 31 – Lady Shipman made every pole a winning one to secure her first graded stakes win in Sunday’s Grade 3 $157,300 Royal North Stakes, at Woodbine. Trained […] Read More
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Graded stakes veteran Curalina overtook Carrumba at the top of the stretch and pulled away for a convincing 9 1/4-length victory in Sunday’s Grade 3, $200,000 […] Read More
Hall of Fame trainer Richard Mandella was calm and, to borrow a Del Mar marketing phrase, “cool as ever” Sunday morning, about 12 hours after Beholder’s hard-fought loss to Stellar […] Read More
In a stunning upset, Hronis Racing’s Stellar Wind, the Eclipse Award winner as champion three-year-old filly of 2015, outran 1-9 favored Beholder in the stretch to win the featured Grade […] Read More
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Burnishing the “Graveyard of Favorites” lore, Laoban went to the front at the start and never looked back en route to a shocking 27-1 upset of […] Read More