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Consider the performance of the $30 million racehorse Forever young . Yes, I’m rounding the revenue total a bit, but with numbers like this, it’s close enough. A year after scoring victories and placing in the top three international dirt races for older horses, the remarkable Forever Young continued his impressive run with a season-opening […]
In recent years, U.S.-based trainers fortunate enough to have multiple Kentucky Derby (G1) hopefuls might try to chart different paths toward the first Saturday in May, perhaps with one runner coming in on Gulfstream Park and another bee Aqueduct racecourseor one up Santa Anita Park and another bee Oaklawn Park. While these decisions are still […]
John Shirreffs, who trained Zenyatta to a Hall of Fame career and saddled Giacomo to win the 2005 Kentucky Derby (G1), died in his sleep on February 12 at his home in Arcadia, California. He was 80. “The industry lost a great man today,” said Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith, who rode these horses […]
Eleven of the most memorable, large-scale and momentous events from thoroughbred racing in North America last year have been nominated for the 2025 FanDuel Racing NTRA Moment of the Year, an award determined by fan votes and recognized at the annual Eclipse Awards. Voting is available on the National Thoroughbred Racing Association website, NTRA.comand via […]
With any luck in the coming months, the resumption of the Sovereignty –Journalism rivalry could be an international sensation. Michael McCarthy, trainer of Preakness Stakes (G1) winner Journalism, said the son of Curl will return to his Santa Anita Park in the shed in mid-January, hoping to get six or seven works in before starting […]
Godolphin’s Kentucky home bred Sovereignty recorded his last breeze in New York on October 19 before shipping to California for the $7 million Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) at Sea November 1. Trained by Hall of Famer Bill Mott, Sovereignty was guided in work by assistant trainer Neil Poznansky on the Oklahoma Training Track at Saratoga […]
The roar of a healthy young stallion reflected the Michael McCarthy Shed Row. “Is that him?” Aron Wellman asked. Yes, it was him. On the eve of his confrontation with Nysos And Fierceness In the $ 1 million Pacific Classic Stakes (G1) August 30 to Sea” Journalism Send his horse complaints, including the temporary inability […]
The top two horses on the list of the General Sires were good for the top six horses that were sold at the Saratoga Sale, the two-day selected yearling sale of phasig-tipton that 5 August in Saratoga Springs, NY While this column space usually follows every other week that the gentlemen go up and down […]
