Trainer Whit Beckman is back in the Kentucky Derby (G1) for a second consecutive year. He spoke with the media April 12 following Flying Mohawk‘s easy half-mile breeze in :50 4/5 alongside Beckman’s 2024 Derby starter, Honor Marie.
It has been 20 years since the formation of UK’s Equine Initiative, now UK Ag Equine Programs, an effort to serve the horse and the industry that supports the horse. Formed in March 2005, the program began as a partnership between the UK Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment and the horse industry and…
Multiple graded stakes winner Gear Jockey died recently according to Lyndsay Delello, assistant to trainer Rusty Arnold, and confirmed by Calumet Farm. Delello posted on social media that the son of Twirling Candy had died at the age of 8. Gear Jockey developed an illness while shipping to South Korea and died in that country after efforts…
A $70,000 purchase at the Texas Thoroughbred Association Summer Yearling Sale seems unlikely to find its way onto the road to the Kentucky Derby (G1), let alone sit atop the American classic’s qualifiers leaderboard in early March with 70 points. But Coal Battle has done just that, a feat being celebrated in Texas. Coal Battle …
‘The Owner’s Box’ Podcast Welcomes Griffin Johnson from ABR’s ‘A Stake in Stardom’ and Part-Owner of Sandman. Source link
Sara Elbadwi & Paul Verderosa look ahead at the Woodhaven Stakes at Aqueduct and the Dig A Diamond Stakes at Oaklawn. Source link
New York Times Essay Misses the Mark Like many of you, I was disappointed in the content and tone of the guest essay on horse racing published in the New York Times two weeks ago. And while it was an opinion piece, the author presented a very one-sided view with facts selected to back up…
