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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 […]
Blackout Time is targeting the $1 million Rebel Stakes (G2) March 1 at Oaklawn for its 3-year-old debut, co-owner Lance Gasaway said Saturday morning. Blackout Time hasn’t started since a second-place finish behind eventual 2-year-old champion Ted Noffey in the Breeders’ Futurity Stakes (G1) at 1 1/16 miles on Oct. 4 at Keeneland. Blackout Time […]
Last summer at Saratoga Race Coursecoach Kenny McPeek made his debut Taken by the wind a promising brown filly from Rock your world . Despite initially showing some greenness, the filly showed her talent and defied her 13-1 odds to pull away to win the optional 7-furlong maiden race by 3 lengths. Fresh from her […]
Universe a final second-place finish in the 2025 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes (G2) at Churchill Downs after two previous stakes placements, it aims to turn stakes as a mere 3-year-old in the January 3 Smarty Jones Stakes on Oaklawn Park. The track-pulled colt fights the undefeated one Santa Fe Ranch and seven others in the […]
Kenny McPeek wasn’t sure how to handle the situation. His blood pressure had dropped. His back felt better. His shoes were clean and the air outside was warm and inviting, really strange for early December. “Right now I’m sitting with some of my good friends at a Brazilian barbecue in Rio de Janeiro,” he said […]
Six promising 2-year-old fillies will stretch to 1 1/8 miles in the $250,000 Demoiselle Stakes (G2) on Dec. 6, and they better bring their “A” game to beat Fern Creek Stables’ battle. Shillings bee Aqueduct racecourse. The Kenny McPeek-trained daughter of Global campaign impressively won the local one-mile track preparation on November 6, the Tempted […]
Hill ‘n’ Dale in Xalapa announced on August 14 that they have acquired a half interest in reigning Horse of the Year Thordedo Anna . Last year, the McPeek McPeek, trained by Kenny McPeek, fell to the power of her victories in the Kentucky Oaks (G1) and Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1) for owners Brookdale Racing, […]
