Fasig-Tipton’s February digital sale closed on February 24 with gross sales of $5,881,500 for 189 horses sold. Sales started on February 19. The offering included horses of racing age, potential racehorses/broodmares, broodmares (including mares with foals at foot) stallions, ‘short’ yearlings and a two-year-old in training. Neom Beach (hip 1), a multiple winning daughter of […]
DJ stables and St Elias stables Sandman will make his first ranking at the start of the year on the site of his biggest career victory to date. The 4 year old gray or roan son of Carpet is one of seven competitors in the Feb. 28 Razorback Handicap (G3), a $500,000 test over 1 […]
Named the 2025 Virginia-bred Horse of the Year, the multimillion-dollar Gigante tops a line of award winners whose connections will receive hardware for their efforts Saturday, March 14, at Colonial Downs. The trophy presentations will take place on the winners circle stage between races during the prestigious Virginia Derby Day card in New Kent. Gigante, […]
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 […]
One of the most competitive races taking place this weekend is the $300,000 Remington Springboard Mile S. on Saturday at Remington Park. The one-mile Road to the Kentucky Derby qualifier has drawn a dozen entries. There is no standout favorite, and in fact the top two picks on the morning line have meaningful questions to […]
Cash Asmussen, a former jockey and brother of Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen, went to $ 1.35 million on behalf of Richard Drake for HIP 1066, a son of Not this time During the fourth session of the Keeneland September Jaarling sale 11 September. The foal is the first foal of the non -livestock […]
Nick Hahn August 21, 2025 The leading rider of Colonial Downs this season has a big assignment this Saturday. But it won’t be in New Kent. Ben Curtis will be thirty -four miles almost to the north of colonial, aboard the Magnitude in the $ 1,250,000 travers stakes on Saratoga Race Course. Curtis gets a […]