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Sat Jul 5 19:34:54 2008 |
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Oceanport, NJ (Sports Network) - Presious Passion and Notional both picked up
spots in this year's Breeders' Cup races with a pair of stakes victories at
Monmouth Park on Saturday. The two races, United Nations Handicap and Salvator
Mile, a
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Sat Jul 5 16:43:32 2008 |
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Henderson, KY (Sports Network) - An agreement has been reached between Ellis
Park and the Kentucky Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association (KHBPA)
that will allow the track to reopen. Track owner Ron Geary closed the track
before
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Thu Jul 3 16:37:58 2008 |
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Oceanport, NJ (Sports Network) - A pair of "Win and You're In" Breeders'
Cup preview races that guarantee the winners automatic entry into the World
Championships are on tap Saturday at Monmouth Park.
The $750,000 United Nations H
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Thu Jul 3 10:44:50 2008 |
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Henderson, KY (Sports Network) - Ellis Park, which is across the Ohio River
from Evansville, Indiana, has been forced to close and will not open for the
season on Friday, July 4. Racetrack owner Ron Geary made the announcement in a
press r
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Tue Jul 1 15:27:05 2008 |
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Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - Talking to one of the other writers at
The Sport Network after it was announced that Santa Anita Handicap winner
Heatseeker had been retired, he expressed disappointment in the likely field
for thi
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Tue Jul 1 11:28:19 2008 |
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Inglewood, CA (Sports Network) - Heatseeker, the leading handicap horse on the
West Coast, has been retired from racing. The announcement was made Monday
three days after the five-year-old was discovered to have a swollen left front
ankle.
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Sat Jun 28 22:45:18 2008 |
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Yonkers, NY (Sports Network) - Napoleon, driven by Stephane Bouchard, took
advantage of a late break by the leader to capture Saturday night's $605,854
Yonkers Trot Final. The three-year-old covered the one-mile in 1:57 1/5 on the
half-mi
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Sat Jun 28 20:46:45 2008 |
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Inglewood, CA (Sports Network) - Lightly regarded Mast Track went wire-to-
wire in winning Saturday's $750,000 Hollywood Gold Cup at Hollywood Park.
Ridden by Tyler Baze the four-year-old covered the 1 1/4 mile race in 2:01.37.
Mast
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Fri Jun 27 15:37:00 2008 |
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Inglewood, CA (Sports Network) - Now that Santa Anita Handicap winner
Heatseeker has been scratched from Saturday's $750,000 Hollywood Gold
Cup at Hollywood Park, Go Between has been made the 5-2 morning-line favorite
for the
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Fri Jun 27 13:48:09 2008 |
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Inglewood, CA (Sports Network) - Morning-line favorite Heatseeker has been
scratched from Saturday's running of the $750,000 Hollywood Gold Cup. The
five-year-old exhibited swelling in the left front ankle on Friday morning.
The 7-
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Fri Jun 27 11:31:37 2008 |
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Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - Jockey Jeremy Rose, the former rider for
Preakness and Belmont Stakes winner Afleet Alex, has been handed down a six-
month suspension for hitting a mount in the eye with the whip by the Delaware
Thoroug
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Wed Jun 25 18:39:59 2008 |
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Inglewood, CA (Sports Network) - Santa Anita Handicap winner Heatseeker has
been made the 7-5 morning-line favorite for Saturday's $750,000 Hollywood Gold
Cup at Hollywood Park. The 1 1/4 mile race, which will be run on the track's
all-wea
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Wed Jun 25 14:56:17 2008 |
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Lexington, KY (Sports Network) - Kentucky Derby winning trainer Rick Dutrow,
Jr. has been suspended due to a horse that he trains tested positive for
twice the allowable level of Clenbuterol.
Salute the Count, who had taken second
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Tue Jun 24 14:49:37 2008 |
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Yonkers, NY (Sports Network) - Saturday night's 54th edition of the Yonkers
Trot marks the beginning of this season's Trotting Triple Crown series. Eight
three-year-old trotters will go postward for the one-mile race at Yonkers
Raceway
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Mon Jun 23 11:35:31 2008 |
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Elmont, NY (Sports Network) - IEAH Stables, the majority owner of Kentucky
Derby and Preakness winner Big Brown, has announced that effective October 1
of this year Lasix will be the only medication its racehorses will be given.
"In a
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Mon Jun 23 10:44:47 2008 |
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Lexington, KY (Sports Network) - Student Council, winner of this year's
Pimlico Special, has been confirmed as a starter for this Saturday's $750,000
Hollywood Gold Cup. Owner Millennium Farms made the announcement Monday in a
press r
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Sun Jun 22 18:16:33 2008 |
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Toronto, ON (Sports Network) - Not Bourbon, ridden by Jono Jones, held off
the filly Ginger Brew down the stretch to win Sunday's $1 million Queens
Plate at Woodbine Racetrack. The victory gives trainer Roger Attfield his
eighth t
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Fri Jun 20 12:49:00 2008 |
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Louisville, KY (Sports Network) - A pair of second-pace finishers in this
year's Triple Crown races are being prepared at Churchill Downs for the
remainder of the 2008 racing season.
Preakness Stakes runner-up Macho Again and
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Thu Jun 19 15:02:06 2008 |
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Elmont, NY (Sports Network) - The Daily Racing Form is reporting on its
website that leading three-year-old Big Brown will make his next start in the
$1 million Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park on Sunday, August 3.
"The Haskell
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Thu Jun 19 14:15:51 2008 |
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Toronto, ON (Sports Network) - An over-flow field of 15 three-year-olds has
been entered in Sunday's $1 million Queens Plate at Woodbine Racetrack. The 1
1/4 mile race is open to Canadian-bred three-year-olds and is the first leg of
the Cana
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