Following a half-mile work in :48 4/5 under exercise rider Elver Vargas at Churchill Downs Oct. 24, Mark Casse speaks confidently with the media about Nitrogen‘s chances in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1) at Del Mar.
Belmont Stakes (G1)-winning trainer Christophe Clement, who had been battling metastatic uveal melanoma, died May 25. He was 59. A native of Paris, France, Clement trained 2,576 winners, including 24 grade 1 winners—41 grade 1 wins—in a career that began in the United States in 1991. Among his top horses were three-time Eclipse Award winner Gio…
Yulong Investments general manager Vin Cox has tendered his resignation from the breeding and racing giant. Cox joined Yuesheng Zhang’s global operation in November 2023 after almost six years as Godolphin Australia’s managing director. Before that Cox spent about seven years with Magic Millions, having been named the Australian sales company’s managing director in 2011. Cox…
The lack of entries has prompted officials at Finger Lakes Gaming & Racetrack to cancel live racing for Tuesday, May 20. Due to the lingering impacts of a long winter, combined with a wet spring, trainers had limited training opportunities to fully prepare their horses for the season. As the amount of fit and available…
Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms at Xalapa’s freshman sire Charlatan sired his first winner May 2 at Gulfstream Park where his son Copernium won his racing debut by 2 1/4 lengths. The chestnut colt bought by trainer Jack Sisterson for $375,000 at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales March 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale from Top Line Sales now…
Roughly an hour before Kentucky Oaks (G1) winner Good Cheer races for Godolphin and trainer Brad Cox in the $1 million Cotillion Stakes (G1) Sept. 20 at Parx Racing, one of their other top 3-year-old fillies, Immersive , competes in the $175,000 Seneca Overnight Stakes at Churchill Downs. Perfect in four starts last year and awarded…
Zeitlos , last year’s winner of the Thoroughbred Club of America Stakes (G2), will look to add a repeat victory in the 6-furlong race when she faces a field of six talented fillies and mares Oct. 4 at Keeneland. The race is a Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series event, which gives the winner an automatic berth to…
