Richard Golden’s Clever Mind made an auspicious career debut Saturday at Laurel Park, rallying from last to capture the $100,000 Maryland Million Nursery by two lengths. The Graham Motion-trained juvenile son of Buffum broke slowly from the starting gate as even-money favorite Jamaican Don quickly sprinted to the lead on his way to setting solid fractions of […]
Continue readingGroupie Doll hopes to add another grade 1 race to her already sparkling resume when she takes on the boys in the $350,000 Cigar Mile Handicap (gr. I) at Aqueduct Race Course Nov. 24. A field of seven – five of them grade 1 winners – will go to the post in the Cigar, with […]
Continue readingBuffum came out running and never stopped as he posted a gate-to-wire victory in Saturday’s Grade 3, $150,000 Bold Ruler Handicap, one of two graded stakes on the second-to-last card of Belmont Park’s 37-day fall meet. One race earlier, the 5-year-old mare Afleeting Lady became a graded stakes winner as she collared front-running All Due […]
Continue readingTraditionally, horses from Sheikh Mohammed’s Godolphin Stable don’t make the trip from Dubai to New York until the Belmont meet but this year Buffum will buck that trend and compete for the $200,000 Bay Shore Stakes.
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