Thoroughbred Racing
Latest Feature Articles
|
Zenyatta Stablemate Life Is Sweet Ninth In Money
Zenyatta stablemate Life Is Sweet made life sweeter for her breeder/owners when she won the Breeders' Cup Ladies Classic (G1) and climbed to ninth on the 2009 money list.
|
|
Win Place Show at The Breeders Cup Championships
The United States garnered eight wins at the 2009 Breeders' Cup Championships, while the Europeans scored six victories. Zenyatta (USA) and Ireland's Goldikova starred.
|
|
Zenyatta First Female To Win BC Classic
Unbeaten Zenyatta put herself into Horse of the Year conversation with a last to first burst in the Breeders' Cup Classic. She's the first female to win the contest.
|
|
Summer Bird Chasing Female Foes for HOY
Female Thoroughbreds Zenyatta, or Rachel Alexandra may lay claim to Horse of the Year over Belmont Stakes, Travers Stakes, and Jockey Club Gold Cup winner Summer Bird.
|
|
Can Rachel Alexandra Vie for Horse of the Year?
How great is Rachel Alexandra? At only three, the Medaglia d'Oro filly has galloped by every challenger of both genders. Her Woodward win caused a Saratoga explosion.
|
|
Forever Together Takes Diana Stakes Again
Turfer Forever Together took serious aim at a grass championship by winning the Diana Stakes, while Kensei also triumphed at Saratoga. Cardashi won at Penn National.
|
|
Lion Heart and Smarty Jones Get Stakes Winners
Although 2004 Belmont Stakes champion Birdstone is the stallion of the season, classmates Lion Heart and Smarty Jones are also getting two- and three-year-old winners.
|
|
Rachel Alexandra Records Easy Haskell Win
Munnings was just learning the how-to of winning; Summer Bird's Belmont Stakes stature impressed; but Rachel Alexandra ruled again. She romped over the Haskell boys.
|
|
Eye of the Leopard and Gozzip Girl Win
Gozzip Girl joined stars in recent wins in the American Oaks, while Eye of the Leopard gave Sam-Son a fifth Queen's and Presious Passion rolled in the United Nations.
|
|
Rachel Alexandra and Zenyatta Dominate
Dominant performances by Rachel Alexandra and Zenyatta, piloted by regular jockeys Calvin Borel and Mike Smith, kept the two female stars on an honors collision course.
|
|
Zenyatta A Perfect Ten Chasing Immortals
Can Zenyatta match Personal Ensign's perfect thirteen? She's three quarters of the way there and still galloping. Will she meet up with 2009's sweetheart, Rachel A.?
|
|
Seattle Smooth Wins Ogden Phipps on Belmont Dirt
Quiet American daughter Seattle Smooth switched from artificial surfaces racing to traditional dirt in the East and continues her initial success for Mercedes Stables.
|
|
Einstein Jammed In Stephen Foster by Macho Again
Jockey Robby Albarado took advantage of a traffic jam that walled in Santa Anita Handicap champion Einstein to pilot Macho Again to the Grade One Stephen Foster title.
|
|
Gabby's Golden Girl Takes June Acorn Stakes
Garrett Gomez and Javier Castellano picked up pretigious wins on Belmont Stakes day with Gio Ponti and Gabby's Golden Gal, respectively. Oldster Better Talk Now showed.
|
|
Stewart Elliott Has Winning Milwaukee Appeal
Milwaukee Appeal won the Woodbine Oaks with jockey Stewart Elliott in the irons guiding the filly for the first time. She is headed for the $1 Million Queen's Plate.
|
|
Horse Racing Triple Crown Conspiracy Theories
In 2004, sure thing Smarty Jones lost the Belmont Stakes by a length after seemingly surviving the race's too-early speed and bursting to a long lead coming home.
|
|
Parading Took Preakness Undercard Dixie Stakes
Jockey Kent Desormeaux took Parading to the winner's circle on the Preakness day undercard. Affirmatif and Everyday Heroes won three-year-old turf and sprint races.
|
|
Payton d' Oro Wins Black Eyed Susans for Jones
Knowing his Thoroughbred from every angle helped jockey Terry Thompson get Payton d' Oro to the winner's circle for trainer Larry Jones on Black-Eyed Susan day.
|
|
Barbaro Full Brother Nicanor Wins in Turf Debut
Nicanor was given five weeks to recover from a January quarter grab sustained in his first three-year-old racing season start. He's placed twice on dirt and won on turf.
|
|
Preakness 2006 Was All Barbaro and Tragedy
Every so often, a Thoroughbred comes along who is charismatic, beautiful, and well connected. Barbaro was such a champion, ridden by Edgar Prado, trained by Michael Matz.
|
|
Mine That Bird Ninth Gelding to Win Derby Roses
Just the ninth gelding in Kentucky Derby history to win the Run for the Roses, Mine That Bird joined a cast with speed pedigrees in Funny Cide and 1929's Clyde Van Dusen.
|
|
April Race Results for Three-Year-Old Fillies
Hooh Why won her first stakes in the Ashland and Medaglia d' Oro daughter Rachel Alexandra rolled over her competition in the Fantasy Stakes by nearly nine lengths.
|
|
Kentucky Derby Longshot Winners Led by Donerail
In 135 runnings of the Kentucky Derby, Mine That Bird became the second largest longshot behind 1913's Donerail to win. His jockey and trainer also set historic marks.
|
|
Kentucky Derby Race Day Honored Eight Belles
The first running of the Eight Belles Stakes on the Kentucky Derby Day undercard May 2 featured Just Jenda, a filly trained by Eight Belles conditioner Larry Jones.
|
|
Calvin Borel Wins Twice on Kentucky Oaks Day
Jockey Calvin Borel couldn't get enough of Kentucky Oaks and Kentucky Derby days. On Oaks day he won twice, on Rachel Alexandra and Miss Isella, before his Derby win.
|
Latest Articles