CategoriesNews SportsGodolphin and British trainer Charlie Appleby have made the Summer Stakes (G1T) and Natalma Stakes (G1T) at Woodbine a point of emphasis over the past half-dozen years, winning each race twice. As grade 1s worth CA$500,000, they are rewarding, but as part of the Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series: Win and You’re In, they offer the […]
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CategoriesNews SportsGeorge Murphy revealed Sept. 2 that White Birch will miss the remainder of the season after picking up an injury to his hock. The Tattersalls Gold Cup (G1) winner, unbeaten in three starts this year, was being aimed at the Sept. 14 Irish Champion Stakes (G1). “Unfortunately, it looks like White Birch will miss the rest […]
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CategoriesNews SportsGold Phoenix advanced several streaks by capturing the Aug. 31 Del Mar Handicap (G2T) at Del Mar. Not only was the 6-year-old gelding winning the race for the third time, but he also gave Little Red Feather Racing five of the last seven editions and trainer Phil D’Amato his ninth victory in the last 11 runnings. It […]
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CategoriesNews SportsThe Kentucky Downs meet has made more than a splash on the racing calendar for Kentucky-breds racing for the lucrative purses supported by the Kentucky Thoroughbred Development Fund. However, not to be slept on is how much the base purses have risen thanks to the state’s historical horse racing machines. The story of the meet’s richest […]
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CategoriesNews SportsGetting the jump on the opposition leaving the turn in the CA$125,000 Toronto Cup Aug. 31 at Woodbine, Chiefswood Stables’ homebred Piper’s Factor defeated favored Swift Delivery , the 3-year-old owned in part by Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce via a Team Valor International partnership. BloodHorse: NFL Superstar Travis Kelce Joins Ownership of Swift Delivery Piper’s […]
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CategoriesNews SportsBrightwork ‘s 2024 debut was delayed after she slipped and fell in the paddock before the Aug. 3 Test Stakes (G1), but she made a triumphant return Aug. 31 in the $200,000 Prioress Stakes (G3) at Saratoga Race Course. The six-furlong Prioress, for 3-year-old fillies, looked like a showdown between last year’s Adirondack (G3) and Spinaway […]
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CategoriesNews SportsThe last time Godolphin won a graded stakes race for 2-year-olds in New York was in 2019, when Lake Avenue (Tapit ) won the Demoiselle Stakes (G2) at Aqueduct Racetrack, and according to Equibase statistics dating back to 2000, the international racing and breeding organization had never won a grade 1 for juveniles at Saratoga Race Course, at […]
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CategoriesNews SportsFor match race spoilers, the emotional and long overdue major victory of Pinstriped (Street Boss ) in the Aug. 31 Memsie Stakes (G1) at Caulfield will live long in the memory. Melbourne’s traditional first top-tier spring race, contested at 1,400 meters (about 7 furlongs), was hyped as a two-horse battle between seasoned group 1 scorer Pride Of […]
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CategoriesNews SportsBethany Baumgardner has won two races in a training career that began in April as the Florida trainer for Glen Hill Farm. Both those winners will be in action this weekend at Kentucky Downs: Ocean Club to run in the $1.5 million Ladies Sprint (G2) Aug. 31 and Bridle a Butterfly in the $1 million Juvenile Sprint […]
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CategoriesNews SportsThe logical places to look for the winner of the Sept. 1 Del Mar Derby (G2T) are the two prior turf stakes at the meeting for 3-year-olds. As such, Stay Hot and Formidable Man , who captured the La Jolla Handicap and Oceanside Stakes, respectively, merit serious consideration. But don’t discount California-bred Curlin’s Kaos , winner of […]
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