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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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Sat Jun 14 23:12:40 2008 |
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Campbellville, ON (Sports Network) - Somebeachsomewhere. driven by Paul
MacDonell, took the lead after a quarter-mile and went on to post a two-length
victory in Saturday's $1.5 million North America Cup at Mohawk Racetrack.
Making on
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Sat Jun 14 19:10:24 2008 |
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Louisville, KY (Sports Network) - Reigning Horse of the Year Curlin, making
his first start in the United States since his win in the 2007 Breeders Cup
Classic, rolled to an easy victory in the $1 million Stephen Foster Handicap
at Chur
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Fri Jun 13 16:33:06 2008 |
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Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - Now that the Triple Crown races have been
completed, attention turns to the handicap division of thoroughbred racing.
Saturday afternoon at Churchill Downs the $1 million Stephen Foster Handicap
begins
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Thu Jun 12 15:40:22 2008 |
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Louisville, KY (Sports Network) - Defending Horse of the Year Curlin has drawn
the inside post for Saturday's Stephen Foster Handicap at Churchill Downs. The
four-year-old colt is the 3-5 morning-line favorite for the $1 million race
which w
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Tue Jun 10 17:05:38 2008 |
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Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - There have been many reports written the
past couple of months concerning Big Brown's "enlarged" heart that had been
passed down to him from previous generations (especially from his dam, Mien),
but this pa
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