After setting a world record time of :59.75 for 5 1/2 furlongs in Ellis Park allowance company Aug. 8, JAL Racing’s Doncho is set to make his graded stakes debut in the $400,000 Woodford Stakes (G2T) at Keeneland Oct. 4.
Trainer Michelle Lovell discusses the 4-year-old Mo Town gelding after he jogged on the Churchill Downs track Sept. 30.
In an appealing piece of symmetry, the Virginia Derby—the newest race on the Road to the Kentucky Derby—went to a horse conditioned by a trainer who is surely the oldest on the current Kentucky Derby (G1) trail, that being 89-year-old D. Wayne Lukas, who has sent out four Derby winners, the first, Winning Colors, back…
Multiple grade 1 winner Imperial Hint, who set a track record at Saratoga Race Course that still stands today, has been euthanized in Louisiana following a lengthy struggle with laminitis. Clear Creek Stud, which stood Imperial Hint since he went to the breeding shed in 2021, announced his death. The 12-year-old son of Imperialism won 11 black-type…
Despite neither horse having raced this past weekend, Fierceness has emerged from his tie with White Abarrio to lead the National Thoroughbred Racing Association’s Top Thoroughbred Poll released May 28. Repole Stable and the Coolmore partners’ Fierceness showed no signs of rust in his 4-year-old debut, the May 2 Alysheba Stakes (G2) at Churchill Downs, setting…
After setting a quick pace, Calumet Farm homebred Gin Gin was able to outlast a late charge by Nitrogen by a nose and pull the upset in the $650,000 Spinster Stakes (G1) at Keeneland Oct. 5. Ridden by Luis Saez and trained by Brendan Walsh, Gin Gin was able to outlast the pressure of 2024 Horse…
Horris Hill Stakes winner Orne features among 96 entries for Tattersall’s Online May Sale beginning May 8. The son of Acclamation won the 2023 Horris Hill Stakes (G3) at Newbury for John and Thady Gosden and was also second the following season in the Sandy Lane Stakes (G2) to Inisherin . Other notable lots include Punchestown…
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