WinStar Farm looks very strong at the moment going into the Triple Crown events of 2010 with the likes of accomplished stakes winners Super Saver (Kentucky Jockey Club), Rule (Delta Jackpot) and American Lion (Hollywood Prevue). It is fair to say that Drosselmeyer (Distorted Humor-Golden Ballet) has been a bit slower to come around. With […]
[ Read More ]WinStar Farm won its third graded 2-year-old stakes in three weeks on Friday night, when Rule drove to a gutty neck win over Uh Oh Bango in the Grade 3, $750,000 Delta Jackpot at Delta Downs. It was another 2 3/4 lengths back in third to Oak Motte. Rule’s win came on the heels of […]
[ Read More ]WinStar Farm strengthened its position for the 2010 classics and Calvin Borel salvaged a tie for the jockey crown at the Churchill Downs fall meet when Super Saver rolled to a front-running romp Saturday in the Grade 2, $191,250 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes. Super Saver, a Maria’s Mon colt trained by Todd Pletcher, went straight […]
[ Read More ]The highly touted American Lion (by Tiznow) made the successful jump from the maiden ranks to stakes competition when he scored a half-length victory in the Grade 3, $100,000 Hollywood Prevue Stakes on Saturday at Hollywood Park. American Lion ($3.40) sat in third place during the early going as Macias, trained by Bob Baffert, led […]
[ Read More ]Winning a $6 million race would make you fat and happy. Trainer Eoin Harty, one of the wittiest guys on the backstretch, is happy. Well Armed, whom Harty trained to win the Dubai World Cup four months ago, is fat. “I can’t get the belly off him,” Harty said while feeding Well Armed a carrot […]
[ Read More ]Colonel John and Well Armed are the two best horses in trainer Eoin Harty’s barn. Both have been off for several months, but both are now ready to run. Harty nominated both to the Grade 2, $250,000 San Diego Handicap this Sunday at Del Mar, but didn’t want to run them against one another. He […]
[ Read More ]Hold Me Back, winner of the Lane’s End Stakes (gr. II) at Turfway Park in mid-March, is the third choice at 5-1. Trainer Bill Mott, who conditions the Giant’s Causeway colt, has three Virginia Derby wins on his resume. Hold Me Back most recently ran in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I), […]
[ Read More ]Coolmore Lexington Stakes (gr. II) winner Advice will be shipped from Kentucky to California for the $300,000 Swaps Stakes (gr. II) at Hollywood Park July 18, according to the Inglewood track’s racing office. Jockey Garrett Gomez has taken a call on the WinStar Farms colt for trainer Todd Pletcher. He is to ship July 13. […]
[ Read More ]LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Advice had barely cooled out after finishing 13th in the May 2 Kentucky Derby when his connections said they planned to switch the colt to turf the next time he raced. That plan will become a reality Saturday when Advice makes his turf debut from post 1 with Garrett Gomez back aboard […]
[ Read More ]Twice in the last three years, the Belmont Stakes was won by a horse who was still eligible to a first-level allowance race. Neither Jazil in 2006, nor Da’ Tara in 2008 had won anything other than a maiden race before capturing the Belmont, but both thrived over the 1 1/2 miles at Belmont Park. […]
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