Stakes Preview: Jim Dandy and Lake George Stakes

Santa Anita’s 16-day Autumn Meet begins on Sept. 26 with a new wager, the $1 Sunset Pick Six. The Sunset Pick Six will comprise the final three races from both Santa Anita and Gulfstream Park on days that the pair are running. Available to retail customers only (no CAW players), the Sunset Pick Six features…

Trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. confirmed that Michael J. Ryan’s Be Your Best, who is cross-entered in Friday’s Ballston Spa (G2) at Saratoga, will run in the 1 3/16 miles Grade 2 $500,000 Beverly D. at Colonial Downs on Saturday. Set to face five other older fillies and mares in the Beverly D., Be Your Best was…

Boom Boom Bell , a 2-year-old filly, became the first winner for the late grade 1-winning millionaire Combatant when she captured the first race at Hawthorne Race Course July 27.  The filly was bred by Rockridge Stud, who stood her sire near Hudson, N.Y. A son of Scat Daddy, Combatant stood his first and only year in 2022…

Lance Gasaway, 4 G Racing, Daniel Hamby III, and Valley View Farm’s 2024 Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Mystik Dan  took to the grass for the first time Aug. 1 over Saratoga Race Course‘s Oklahoma turf training track. Clockers timing him through a solo five-eighths breeze in 1:02.17 with Luis Rivera Jr. up. Not counting three workouts…

When Richi  squared off against stablemate Cavalieri  in the March 8 B. Wayne Hughes Beholder Mile Stakes (G1) at Santa Anita Park, trainer Bob Baffert advised jockey Antonio Fresu that the only way they could beat Cavalieri was to steal the race. Richi ran gamely, turning back Cavalieri’s challenges until the very end, only grudgingly giving…

Baaeed , the highest-rated horse in Europe for over a decade, will head the 2026 Shadwell stallion roster at a reduced fee of £55,000 (approx. US$72,000). The champion son of Sea The Stars  has been strongly supported since retiring to the Shadwell stallion barn, covering a debut book of 167 mares, followed by books numbering 120…