Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird is coming back to Churchill Downs for the spring meeting to be the thoroughbred in residence at the Kentucky Derby Museum.CJ.com
Unbeaten Verrazano more than lived up to the pre-race hype in Saturday's $350,000 Tampa Bay Derby and confirmed his position in the upper echelon of Kentucky Derby contenders.
Ten years ago, Texas horsewoman Tootie Bland thought she had witnessed a miracle: a green Quarter Horse so gentled in just a few hours that a rider could stand on his back and crack a whip.
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Rachel Alexandra, the 2009 Horse of the Year, is healing well following a surgical procedure performed last Thursday to drain an abscess that developed adjacent to her reproductive tract and rectum, Lexington's Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital said Tuesday.CJ.com
It was the second race at Hawthorne Race Course on a frigid afternoon in Chicago, with seven Illinois-bred maidens going to the post. But it could have been the Kentucky Derby for the partners in Rescue Me Racing, as their 3-year-old gelding Magna Fortuna led all the way for a 9 3/4-length victory Wednesday. Magna Fortuna blog | Follow the story of rescue mare Silver Option and her colt
Trainer Bob Baffert has replaced jockey Julien Leparoux with Garrett Gomez on Flashback for the Santa Anita Derby. Leparoux rode Flashback to two impressive wins before finishing second by a half-length behind Hear the Ghost in last Saturday's San Felipe.CJ.com
Will Take Charge, sent off at 28-1 odds, pushed ahead of stablemate Oxbow to win the $600,000, Grade II Rebel Stakes by a head at Oaklawn Park, putting both of the D. Wayne Lukas-trained horses on track for the May 4 Kentucky Derby.
Verrazano was a fearsome favorite in last weekend's Grade II Tampa Bay Derby because, despite questions about his inexperience, there was just no arguing how superior his form was compared to his opponents that day.
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D. Wayne Lukas finished 1-2 in Oaklawn's Rebel Stakes Saturday as first Oxbow ran down the leaders and then Will Take Charge ran down Oxbow for the head decision.
Jeff Greenhill has enjoyed his status as an under-the-radar trainer but that time might come to an end this weekend if he can win Saturday's $550,000 Spiral Stakes, a prep race for the Kentucky Derby at Turfway Park.
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When Jeff Greenhill saddles Mac the Man in Saturday's Horseshoe Casino Cincinnati Spiral Stakes, it will be the biggest race ever for the one-time chemical engineer who is never far removed from a one-liner.
The most accomplished horses in the Spiral's capacity field of 12 are tepid 3-1 favorite Uncaptured and 7-2 second choice Balance the Books. Uncaptured's only defeat in seven starts came in Canada's Grey Stakes when he found himself in trouble and also might have been suffering effects of a virus that infiltrated trainer Mark Casse's Woodbine barn.CJ.com
His name is Orb, and the son of Malibu Moon has a pedigree that has been circling in the Janney family for 65 years and seven generations of race horses, much of it at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Ky.CJ.com
A lot of people are taking stabs in the Florida Derby's field of 10. But it's hard to imagine anyone other than Itsmyluckyday (the Holy Bull winner in track-record time), Shanghai Bobby (the Holy Bull runner-up in the champion's first career defeat) and Orb (Fountain of Youth winner) as the victor.CJ.com