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Seven months off, Thinking process could rightly have needed a race. But she didn’t have to rely on that excuse and turned in a brilliant performance in the February 28 Buena Vista Stakes (G2T) on Santa Anita Park. The 4 year old Collected The filly faced five other older fillies and mares in the 1-mile […]
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 […]
Randy Winick, trainer of 1993 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) winner Brocco, died on February 15 at the age of 76. He trained many stakes winners throughout his career, including Grade 1 winners Dontstop Themusic, Country Queen, Mitterrand and Spence Bay. Brocco, who also won the 1994 Santa Anita Derby (G1), was Winick’s highest-earning horse, with […]
Pavlovian became owner/breeder J. Paul Reddam’s 22nd homebred black-type stakes winner since 2014 when he captured the Sunland Park Derby in dramatic fashion by a nose on Feb. 15 and is on track to become his first homebred Kentucky Derby (G1) starter. The gray or roan colt is a grade 1 winning millionaire Pavel which […]
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 […]
After finishing behind Super runner And Discover in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1), the easily flown Meaning turned the tables in the $100,000 Las Virgenes Stakes on Feb. 8 Santa Anita Park. The daughter of Rifle runner earned 20 points on the Road to the Kentucky Oaks (G1) for her 1 1/2-length win. Bridlewood […]
When Plutarch Last year, Bob Baffert needed time to grow up. He chose an unusual route for a potential Triple Crown contender. He let him run onto the grass, “just to get some racing in him.” Baffert and his staff continued to work with the royally bred colt. Still a work in progress, Plutarch took […]
Splendor the winner of the 2025 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint (G1). Seadidn’t miss a beat during her 5-year-old season by winning the D. Wayne Lukas Stakes (G2) on February 7 Santa Anita Park. The 7-furlong, $200,500 dirt race for older fillies and mares, formerly known as the Santa Monica Stakes, was renamed early […]
Preakness Stakes (G1)-winning jockey Umberto Rispoli will be sidelined for an unknown period of time after suffering ankle and leg fractures in a spill Jan. 24 in the Gulfstream Park Turf Sprint Stakes. His horse, Invincible Keen clipped heels in deep stretch and dislodged Rispoli. The 7-year-old gelding, trained by Phil D’Amato, was collared by […]
