The movie “Raging Bull,” screened in 1980, was the story of boxer Jake LaMotta, portrayed by Robert De Niro in an Academy Award-winning performance. The horse Raging Bull figures to have a serious fight on his hands when he attempts to turn the tables on the filly, Got Stormy, in Saturday’s Grade 1, $1 million […]
Continue readingLed by the Chad Brown-trained trio Uni (GB), Raging Bull (FR) and Made You Look, a field of 10 runners has been entered for the one-mile, $500,000 Fourstardave Handicap, which will be broadcast live this Saturday, Aug. 10 from Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. at 5 p.m. ET on NBC. Saturday’s show marks the sixth of 11 telecasts […]
Continue readingTrainer Chad Brown saddled the first three finishers in Saturday’s Grade 1 Manhattan on the Belmont Stakes undercard, and it was Seth Klarman and William Lawrence’s Bricks and Mortar who top his stablemates Robert Bruce and Raging Bull by 1 1/2 lengths on the wire. The winner of the Pegasus World Cup Turf back in […]
Continue readingIn search of a fifth win in the Grade 1, $1 million Manhattan, conditioner Chad Brown entered a quartet of accomplished runners to compete in the 147th running of one of the most prestigious turf races of the Belmont Park spring/summer meet and the prelude to the Grade 1, $1.5 million Belmont Stakes presented by […]
Continue readingDespite a slow early pace that should have compromised him, Seth Klarman and William Lawrence’s Bricks and Mortar proved his class in Saturday’s Grade 1 Turf Classic on the Kentucky Derby undercard. Off as the even-money favorite, the 5-year-old son of Giant’s Causeway came from mid-pack to hit the wire a head in front of […]
Continue readingIn the race preceding Saturday’s Kentucky Derby, Klaravich Stables and William Lawrence’s Bricks and Mortar will shoot for his fourth consecutive victory as he heads a field of 13 4-year-olds and up in the 33rd running of the $1 million Old Forester Turf Classic (GI). The 1 1/8-mile test has a post time of 5:25 p.m. Trained […]
Continue readingTerry Hamilton’s popular Keeneland standout Heart to Heart will make his fourth start in the Maker’s 46 Mile (G1) when he takes on seven rivals in the 31st running of the $300,000 prestigious grass test on Friday at Keeneland. Twice a runner-up in the race before breaking through last year, Heart to Heart will seek […]
Continue readingTrainer Jeff Mullins’ classy Irish-bred River Boyne looms a standout versus 10 fellow sophomores in Wednesday’s Grade II, $200,000 Mathis Brothers Mile (turf) at Santa Anita. Most recently second, beaten a half length by French-bred star Raging Bull in the Grade I Hollywood Derby at a mile and one eighth on turf Dec. 1 at […]
Continue readingFollowing on the heels of a stellar summer season, the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club in Del Mar, Calif., completed its fifth fall meet Sunday, highlighted by gains in total handle and four weeks of safe racing. All sources wagering for the 16-day session totaled $165,289,183, compared to the 2017 total handle of $154,069,710, an increase […]
Continue readingPeter Brant’s talented sophomore colt Raging Bull, sent to post as the 9-5 favorite, had to go five-wide around the far turn but got the job done in Saturday’s Grade 1 Hollywood Derby at Del Mar; he defeated a determined River Boyne by a half-length on the wire. The French-bred son of Dark Angel trained […]
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