Street Sense

John Gunther’s Tiger Moth earned her first stakes victory, rallying late to take Indiana Grand’s $100,000 Mari Hulman George by 2 1/2 lengths over Mo d’Amour. Big World, a Grade 1 winner two races earlier who was the even-money favorite, finished another neck back third, with pacesetting Improv another two lengths back while nosing out […]

Tower of Texas had double the work to do – first, collaring the leader and then holding off a hard-charging rival – to come out on top in Saturday’s $196,750 Grade 2 Connaught Cup, at Woodbine, Trained by Roger Attfield and piloted by leading rider Eurico Rosa da Silva, fan favourite Tower of Texas came […]

Trainer Ian Wilkes was not terribly disappointed in his star 3-year-old colt on Sunday morning, telling bloodhorse.com that McCraken will definitely move forward off the effort. The son of Ghostzapper, previously undefeated, finished third in the G2 Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland on Saturday. “He’s a little tired,” Wilkes said. “He’s jogged, but he’s a […]

February is a very good time to have an ascending 3-year-old colt on the road to the Grade 1 Kentucky Derby. Janis Whitham and Ian Wilkes, the respective owner-breeder and trainer of Saturday’s G3 Sam F. Davis winner McCraken, are enjoying the ride. “We’re all excited,” Wilkes said in the blush of the Ghostzapper colt’s […]

Ian Wilkes has been down this road before. In 2007, as the assistant to Hall of Fame trainer Carl Nafzger, Wilkes brought Bessemer Trust Breeders’ Cup Juvenile and Eclipse Award winner Street Sense to Tampa Bay Downs for the (then)-Grade III Tampa Bay Derby. What ensued was, arguably, the most exciting stretch duel in the […]

WinStar Farm’s Commissioner, A.P. Indy’s last Classic-placed son to retire to stud, sired his first reported foal on Jan. 5th when a bay filly was born at Taylor Made Farm in Nicholasville, KY. Bred by Denny Andrews and Taylor Brother properties, the filly is out of the Afleet Alex mare She’s a Fleet, a half-sister […]

Aside from the Classic and the Distaff, the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile is one of the most closely watched contests during the two-day racing festival. The Juvenile gives 2-year-olds one last chance to showcase their skills ahead of Eclipse Award voting and is often the start of Kentucky Derby fever for the next racing […]

Calvin Borel, the three-time Kentucky Derby-winning jockey whose career will resume Aug. 27 at Ellis Park, says he wasn’t ready to retire when he left racing for almost five months, quitting for what proved the wrong reason. “This is a business you can’t have one foot in and one foot out,” he said. “I felt […]

Retired Hall of Fame jockey Calvin Borel, whose two Ellis Park riding titles are one fewer than his Kentucky Derby triumphs, has been in Louisville the few days visiting friends and staying with trainer Buff Bradley. Borel, whose 5,146 victories rank No. 27 all-time, retired suddenly in late March, telling his agent it was just […]

While scientists aren’t quite sure whether foals are born with their own personalities or whether they develop them after birth, one thing is certain: each foal’s personality is unique. Some are very curious, sticking their noses into our cameras as we watch them grow, while others hide shyly behind their mothers’ sides. This week’s foals […]