The 2025 California-bred Horse of the Year will be announced at the California Thoroughbred Breeders Association Awards Dinner and Annual Meeting on March 2 at the Le Meridien Hotel in Arcadia, California. The finalists for Horse of the Year are, in alphabetical order: Lovesick blues , Man O Rose And Om N Joy . 2025 […]
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 […]
It’s hard to beat trainer Bob Baffert in the stakes for 3-year-olds in Southern California, but Mark Glatt pulled it off with So happy in the $200,000 San Vicente Stakes (G2) at Santa Anita Park January 10 Sure, Baffert trained Butane earned his 1-2 favoritism by a second ahead of the subsequent winner of the […]
The Edmonton Oilers’2024–25 Season did not end with the Stanley Cup, but with a six-game defeat against the Florida Panthers in the final. It was their second consecutive loss for the same opponent, who this year had fallen in game 7 in Game 7 and then in Game 6. In the aftermath, a large part […]
Ah, the NHL design of 2018, a distant and forgotten concept year for the Calgary Flames and their fans, and understandable. After exchanging their first, second and third round picks for Travis Hamonic and Mike Smith, the Flames came into the design with only five concept choices and none to the fourth round. As was […]