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Steve and Brandi Nicholson and Sandra Sexton’s homebred Red Ruby put on a dominating performance in Friday afternoon’s Grade 2 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes at Pimlico, clearly relishing the sloppy conditions as she splashed home a 4 3/4-length winner. The 3-year-old Tiznow filly was racing for the first time since March 10, but extended her record […]

According to drf.com, D. Wayne Lukas trainee Sporting Chance refused to work on Sunday morning at Churchill Downs. The 3-year-old son of Tiznow was given “at least three chances to break off,” but ended up galloping 1 1/2 miles. Lukas told the Churchill press office that Sporting Chance is not expected to breeze before the Preakness […]

Hip No. 95, a daughter of Quality Road consigned by Eddie Woods, Agent, was purchased by Frank Fletcher Racing for $800,000,  topping the first session of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s 2018 Spring Sale of Two-Year-Olds in Training. The dark bay or brown filly, who breezed a quarter in :22 flat at Monday’s Under Tack […]

Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas has called an audible with Sporting Chance and will send the Grade 1 winner to the $1-million, Grade 2 Blue Grass Stakes April 7 at Keeneland, the Hall of Fame trainer said Thursday morning. Lukas had originally targeted the $1-million, G1 Arkansas Derby April 14 at Oaklawn Park […]

Frank Mirahmadi, who is in the midst of his first season as backup track announcer at Aqueduct, is this week’s guest on Across the Board with Andy Serling, now available for download. Mirahmadi joined Serling on the evening of March 9 to discuss his career in the industry, from his start as a childhood fan to becoming a […]

Grade 1 winner Sporting Chance has returned to the track to begin preparations for his scheduled start in the $900,000 Rebel Stakes (G2) March 17, Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas said Saturday morning. Sporting Chance, in his 3-year-old and two-turn debut, finished a troubled third in Monday’s $500,000 Southwest Stakes (G3), Oaklawn’s second of four major preps for […]

Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert tries to continue his stranglehold on Oaklawn’s 3-year-old Kentucky Derby prep series in Monday’s $500,000 Southwest Stakes (G3). The Southern California-based Baffert will send out 2-1 program favorite Mourinho in the 1 1/16-mile Southwest, Oaklawn’s second of four two-turn races leading up to the Kentucky Derby. Probable post time for the […]

WinStar Farm’s Tourist, Tiznow’s multiple Grade 1 winner who closed his racing career with a record-setting victory in the 2016 Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1), sired his first reported foal on the morning of Thursday, Jan. 11th when a bay filly was born at Endeavor Farm in Versailles, KY. Bred by Corey and CJ Johnsen’s CJ […]

Irap (Tiznow), uno de los tresañeros más destacados de 2017, tuvo que ser sacrificado el viernes 20 debido a que presentó un severo cuadro de infosura (laminitis) del cual no pudo recuperarse. Como es sabido, el pupilo de Doug O’Neill había sido operado para tratar de salvarlo de una fractura de sesamoides en su mano […]

Reddam Racing’s multiple graded stakes winner Irap, winner of the G2 Toyota Blue Grass Stakes and more than $1.6 million in his career, was euthanized after developing laminitis, his connections announced Oct 20. The Reddams posted the following statement on Doug O’Neill Racing Stable’s Facebook page – “It is with great sadness that we heard […]