The Opening Night program for the 2019 Remington Park Thoroughbred Season has been compiled. A nine-race card will greet on-track guests and horseplayers on Friday, Aug. 23, featuring the $175,000 Governor’s Cup as the initial stakes race of the season. A field of six entered the Governor’s Cup, at 1-1/8 miles for 3-year-olds and older. […]
Continue readingThe $175,000 Governor’s Cup, the feature event on the Opening Night of the Remington Park Thoroughbred Season on Aug. 23, has a stout list of 30 nominations. The 1-1/8 miles Governor’s Cup could feature past winners of the event as well as multiple contestants who have earned millionaire status. National Hall of Fame trainer Steve […]
Continue readingWelder, the 2018 Horse of the Meeting at Remington Park, posted a half-mile breeze on Tuesday morning. The 6-year-old gray sprinter is preparing for his first start of the upcoming Thoroughbred season. Owned by Ra-Max Farms of Claremore, Okla. and trained by Teri Luneack, Welder breezed four furlongs over a fast track in an easy […]
Continue readingJockey Alfredo Juarez Jr. earned his 3,000th Thoroughbred win at Albuquerque Downs on Saturday, as the veteran rider piloted Vangilder to victory in the $70,000 Charles Taylor Derby for 3-year-olds. Trained by Steve Asmussen for owner Chuck Hovitz, Vangilder covered 1 1/16 miles in 1:43.34, and his winning margin was three-quarters of a length from […]
Continue readingRichard Otto’s homebred Sir Anthony was an 8-1 surprise in Friday’s G3 Cornhusker Handicap at Prairie Meadows, closing from well off the early pace to score by a half-length on the wire. Ridden by Pedro Cotto, Jr., the 4-year-old Mineshaft ridgling covered nine furlongs over the fast main track in 1:48.98. The Cornhusker was the […]
Continue readingCharles Fipke’s 2017 Clark Handicap presented by Norton Healthcare (Grade I) winner Seeking the Soul completed his final major preparation to defend his title in the 1 1/8-mile race with a half-mile breeze in :48.80 Saturday morning at Churchill Downs. “We actually planned on working him at 5:30 a.m. (all times Eastern) but there was […]
Continue readingThe 6-5 favorite in a field of six, Calumet Farm’s Hence scored a clear 6 1/2-length victory in Saturday’s 1 1/8-mile, $200,000 Downs at Albuquerque Handicap at Albuquerque Downs. Ridden by Alfredo Juarez Jr. for trainer Steve Asmussen, Hence covered his trip in 1:51.04 after rallying on the fractions of :24.17, :47.58, and 1:12.28 established by pacesetter […]
Continue readingQuizás lo más complicado en este momento sea determinar el líder de la generación de tresañeros en los Estados Unidos. Los ganadores del Kentucky Derby y del Preakness Stakes fallaron en el Jim Dandy, mientras que el ejemplar que llegó segundo en el Belmont Stakes no pudo en la quincuagésima edición del Haskell Invitational (G1, […]
Continue readingBrad Grady’s Girvin was nearly 13 lengths behind the leaders around the first turn in Sunday’s Grade 1 betfair.com Haskell Invitational, but came flying down the center of the course under Robby Albarado to nip McCraken on the wire by a nose, taking his first top-level victory. The 3-year-old son of Tale of Ekati is also the […]
Continue readingSin un favorito claro, siete talentosos potros estarán disputando este domingo 30 en Monmouth Park la quincuagésima edición del Haskell Invitational (G1, $1,000,000), una carrera en 1800 metros que es considerada como una de las más importantes para tresañeros en Norteamérica, y que además pertenece a la serie “Win and You’re In” de la Breeders’ […]
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