Mike Smith

BLINKERS OFF 256: Pennsylvania Derby and Cotillion Previews and Rapid-Fire

The Thoroughbred Racing Dudes preview the Grade 1, $1,000,000 Pennsylvania Derby and Grade 1, $1,000,000 Cotillion Stakes from Parx Racing and give rapid-fire selections for the major stakes races running […]

Race Previews

Pennsylvania Derby Preview: West Coast Ready to Build Resume

A field of 10 is set to contest the Grade 1 Pennsylvania Derby on Saturday at Parx. The event will go off as race 11 on a stakes-filled card of […] Read More

News

Farewell to a Champion: Songbird Retired

Two-time Eclipse champion filly Songbird has sung her last notes on the race course. Owner Rick Porter of Fox Hill Farm announced the decision to retire her Thursday morning after a […] Read More

Race Recaps

Baffert, Smith Repeat with West Coast in G1 Travers

SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY – For the second straight year, trainer Bob Baffert and jockey Mike Smith won the Grade 1, $1,250,000 Travers Stakes – this time aboard Gary and Mary West’s West […] Read More

Race Recaps

Drefong Dominates G1 Forego

SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY – Baoma Corporation’s Drefong returned to the sight of his coming-out party and dominated in similar fashion, wiring Saturday’s Grade 1, $600,000 Forego Stakes. The Forego was a […] Read More

Race Recaps

Forever Unbridled Nips Songbird in G1 Personal Ensign

SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY – Two top-class females made Saturday’s Grade 1, $700,000 Personal Ensign Stakes a stellar start to Travers Day, with Charles Fipke’s homebred Forever Unbridled charging late to outlast Songbird. The Personal […] Read More

Race Recaps

Baffert Nails Collected-Arrogate Exacta in G1 Pacific Classic

DEL MAR, CA – Bob Baffert’s pair of trainees took home the top two positions, but not in the order that most fans had hoped, as Collected wired the field and held […] Read More

Podcast

BLINKERS OFF 251: Pacific Classic Preview and Rapid-Fire

The Thoroughbred Racing Dudes preview the Grade 1, $1,000,000 TVG Pacific Classic from Del Mar and give rapid-fire selections for the major stakes races running this weekend across the country, […] Read More

News

Arrogate Solid in Return to Training

DEL MAR, CA – Showing no signs of fatigue following a disappointing fourth-place finish in the Grade 2, $300,000 TVG San Diego Handicap on July 22, superstar colt Arrogate drilled a […] Read More

Race Recaps

Stellar Wind Outlasts Vale Dori, Takes G1 Clement Hirsch

DEL MAR, CA – Classy as ever, Stellar Wind outlasted Vale Dori at the wire in Sunday’s Grade 1, $300,000 Clement L. Hirsch. The race is a Win and You’re In for Breeders’ Cup Distaff on […] Read More