#Closing Day

It is easy see why Tiz The Law is a heavy favorite for the Belmont Stakes. His two Grade 1 wins and his 4-for-4 record on fast tracks put him alone in the front of the plane while the rest of the field is stuck in coach. But if it is easy to declare that he will win Saturday, why is it so hard to figure out who will lead him there? Blame it on Fore…

Essential Quality, shown winning the Grade I Travers, is among the favorites in a Breeders' Cup Classic field announced this week. Photo courtesy of New York Racing Association Oct. 29 (UPI) -- It's a week for looking forward as horse racing around the globe nears its annual champion-making events and youngsters get in final licks to make a case…

Potential Breeders' Cup Horses Work Lexus Raven Run Winner Caramel Swirl Returns To Churchill Downs Conditioner Cox's "Cool Little Horse" Perryville Winner He'smyhoneybadger LEXINGTON, Ky. - Charles Fipke's undefeated Lady Speightspeare, scratched at the gate for the Oct. 16 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup (G1) Presented by Dixiana, at Keeneland…

It's full speed ahead this summer at the Del Mar racetrack. While the schedule of activities in 2021 was abbreviated because of the COVID-19 pandemic, this season will have a calendar that is chock-full of events, which visitors are more accustomed to seeing. "We're raring to go," said Chris Bahr, Del Mar's director of events and promotions. "Not…

The final preparations are in full swing for the Cheltenham Festival 2020 which runs from March 10th to 13th. Hopes are rising that the coronavirus outbreak will not force a late postponement for the best four days of National Hunt racing anywhere in the world. Trainer Paul Nicholls has not been the leading trainer at the meeting since 2009 and is…

Keeneland Announces Spring Stakes Schedule (Keeneland / Photos by Holly M. Smith) From the Keeneland Media Team: Keeneland will award a season record $8.05 million for 19 stakes to be run during its 2023 Spring Meet, which will cover 15 days from April 7-28. Leading the schedule are the 99 running of the $1 million Toyota Blue Grass (G1) and 86…

Keeneland will award a season record $8.05 million for 19 stakes to be run during its 2023 Spring Meet, which will cover 15 days from April 7-28. Leading the schedule are the 99 running of the $1 million Toyota Blue Grass (G1) and 86 running of the $600000 Central Bank Ashland (G1), both major targets of the nation's top 3-year-olds. Keeneland has…

CUMBERLAND, ME - Harness racing drivers Mike Stephenson and Matt Athearn stuck around for the season's final day of racing at Cumberland, which boasted an extra 30 percent purse increase, and were both rewarded with three driving victories each on the Monday (Dec. 26) 11-race finale. Local and remote bettors also knew value when the saw it, pushing…

Ramon Vazquez / 7 Edwin Maldonado / 5 TRAINERS / WINS Philip D'Amato / 8 Doug O'Neill / 7 Bob Baffert / 6 Peter Miller / 5 George Papaprodromou / 4 Friday • $175000 Real Good Deal Stakes, 3-year-olds bred in CA, 7 furlongs Saturday • $400000 Grade I Clement L. Hirsch Stakes, fillies and mares, 3-year-olds and up, 1 1/16 miles • $150000 California…

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Keeneland Barn Notes: Basin Gets Final Prep for G2 Blue Grass Stakes (Trainer Steve Asmussen / Photo by Holly M. Smith) From the Keeneland Media Team: GRADE 1 WINNER BASIN WORKS FOR TOYOTA BLUE GRASS Toyota Blue Grass (G2) hopeful Basin, who races for Terry Green's Jackpot Farm, was the first horse to breeze over Keeneland's fast track Monday when…

Abel Cedillo / 9 Tyler Baze / 7 TRAINERS / WINS Doug O'Neill / 16 Peter Miller / 9 Bob Baffert / 8 Richard Baltas / 7 John Sadler / 7 Saturday • $100000 Grade III Autumn Miss Stakes, 3-year-old fillies, 1 mile (turf) Sunday • $200000 Grade II Twilight Derby, 3-year-olds, 1-1/8 miles (turf) • It was difficult for David Abrams to see his older…

Handicapper J. Keeler Johnson shares horses to play in a bevy of carryovers at Aqueduct, Golden Gate Fields, and Woodbine, including a trio of mandatory-payout wagers. One of the biggest carryovers up for grabs on Sunday can be found at Aqueduct, where the $1 Pick 6 has tossed up a lucrative $38428 non-jackpot prize pool. Looking for a single to…

Arkansas' iconic Oaklawn Park, literally situated within a National Park, kicks off its biggest season ever Friday and runs 68 dates through Kentucky Derby Day on May 6. A track record 45 stakes races will be offered and total nearly $14 million purses alone. Friday's opening day feature will be the $150000 Advent Stakes, a 5-1/2 furlong dash for…

PIZZA BIANCA RETURNS TO THE SCENE OF HER GREATEST TRIUMPH Pizza Bianca was a little known 2-year-old filly when she first arrived at Del Mar at the beginning of November last year. She left a celebrity with a Breeders' Cup victory to her credit. She's 3 now and back at the seaside oval to compete in the G1 Matriarch Sunday, contested at a mile on…

Notes & Quotes From G1 Hollywood Derby: Speaking Scout (Speaking Scout wins the G1 Hollywood Derby / Benoit Photo & Courtesy of the Del Mar Turf Club) From the Del Mar Media Team: Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners' Speaking Scout fired a big shot in the lane and came away a Grade I stakes winner for the first time when he clicked by three-quarters of a…

Peter Brant's grand racemare Regal Glory Matriarch Stakes on closing day Sunday of the fall meet. The 6-year-old daughter of Animal Kingdom raced to a 5 1/4-length victory in the turf mile, and she ran it in 1:33.60, the second-fastest time for the headliner since it was shifted from Hollywood Park to Del Mar nine years ago. Regal Glory was handled…

Coast-to-coast Grade 1 stakes races are in the offing this weekend as Aqueduct and Del Mar start the month of December with a bang. Saturday's Grade 1 Cigar Mile in New York and Hollywood Derby in California will set the weekend table for Sunday's Grade 1 Matriarch Stakes on the west coast. It's a month on the racing calendar that will build to a…

SARATOGA SPRINGS - How much of a future is there for Mo Strike? That's the question facing Brad Cox, the trainer of the 3 1/2-length winner of the 107th running of Saratoga's Grade II Sanford Stakes. The contest for 2-year-olds drew a field 12, with most of them making their second career starts. Mo Strike, fresh from a maiden win at Churchill…

Keeneland Barn Notes: Blue Grass Winner Zandon Zooms in Pre-Derby Work (Zandon in his work at Keeneland / Coady Photography) From the Keeneland Media Team: TOYOTA BLUE GRASS WINNER ZANDON TUNES UP FOR KENTUCKY DERBY WITH KEENELAND WORK Jeff Drown's Zandon, winner of Keeneland's $1 million Toyota Blue Grass (G1) on April 9, worked 4 furlongs…

Notes, Quotes & Photos From G2 Golden Rod Stakes: Hoosier Philly (Hoosier Philly / All Photos by Holly M. Smith) From the Churchill Downs Media Team: The promising 2-year-old filly Hoosier Philly stamped herself as a divisional leader and tantalizing prospect for the Longines Kentucky Oaks as she easily won Saturday's 79 running of the $400000…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The promising 2-year-old filly Hoosier Philly stamped herself as a divisional leader and tantalizing prospect for the Longines Kentucky Oaks as she easily won Saturday's 79 running of the $400000 Golden Rod (Grade II) at Churchill Downs with overwhelming authority by five lengths. Hoosier Philly, who ran 1 1/16 miles over a fast…

Churchill Downs' Barn Notes: Proxy Gets Big Speed Figure After G1 Clark Win (Proxy / Photos by Holly M. Smith) From the Churchill Downs' Media Team: Godolphin's talented 4-year-old colt Proxy earned his first career stakes victory Friday with his determined three-quarters of a length win in the $750000 Clark presented by Norton Healthcare (Grade…

WILKES-BARRE PA - The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono held its final of 133 cards for 2022 in near-freezing temperatures on Saturday afternoon (Nov 19), with the meet's leading harness racing horsemen and retiring 14-year-olds feted. Top purse event of closing day was a $25000 fast-class pace, taken easily by the Bettor's Delight gelding Ilikemebettor…

Bo Champlin was watching on television at his home in Visalia, Calif., when Rick's Dream and 11 other horses left the starting gate in the fourth race on the closing-day card at Del Mar on Sept. 7, 2020. A California-bred gelding by Coil, Rick's Dream had given Champlin's Big Iron Racing its first winner nearly a year earlier when trainer Reed…

The history of 151 years of horse racing at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots can be read in the stakes names, from the Colonel Power to the Rachel Alexandra (G2), the Allen Lacombe to the Buddy Diliberto. That tradition continues with the addition of six new opening weekend restricted stakes, serving as the perfect springboard for Louisiana…

The TVG.com Haskell Invitational has emerged as a summer fixture at the Jersey Shore and beyond, with a $1 million purse, Grade 1 stature and a national television audience on NBC for the 52nd running on Saturday, July 20, 2019. Its namesake, Amory L. Haskell, played a prominent role in amending the state constitution after World War II to legalize…

FUN TO DREAM LOOKS TO DISTANCE THE FIELD IN THE BETTY GRABLE There has been no need for a photo finish camera when Fun to Dream races. When she wins, she wins big and she'll try for another laugher in Sunday's $100000 Betty Grable Stakes at Del Mar. It's the last of the opening weekend's stakes races featuring a compact field of five Cal-bred…

On the final day of the 2022 Del Mar meet on Sunday, the Pick 6 must go. The sequence encompasses races 6 through 11, three of which are for 2-year-olds. Handicapper Sara Elbadwi goes through each of the races with expert racing analyst Michelle Yu. The first leg features maidens, and two of the debut runners rank highly on the Horse Racing…

Horse racing in Australia couldn't get any bigger than the annual Melbourne Cup--also known as'the race that stops a nation.' This year, the prestigious horse racing carnival reopens its doors to a live audience following a zero-crowd policy last year amid the pandemic. Whether you're one of the many who wish to be part of the crowd at the…

The Grade 1 Ballerina Handicap is a Breeders' Cup "Win and You're In" race, which offers entry into the F&M Sprint (G1). Analysis of the race below...

The first Saturday in May arrives this weekend and the racing world turns its eyes toward … Hot Springs! These are strange days, indeed. Oaklawn Park will offer two $500000 divisions of the Arkansas Derby (G1) in place of the traditional Run for the Roses. As most fans know, the Kentucky Derby (G1) has been rescheduled for Sept. 5. On the…

Trois-Rivieres, QC - Harness racing driver Pascal Berube became the first driver ever to win 100 races in a single season when he captured the 4 race pace with Café Society at the Hippodrome 3R on closing day of the 2022 season Sunday, November 6, 2022. The Hippodrome 3R dates back to 1830 when they first had horse racing on the grounds. The prior…

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Bob Baffert knows a thing or two about getting 2-year-old racehorses to perform at an elite level on the biggest stages. The Hall of Fame trainer has conditioned six Eclipse Award winners for Champion 2-Year-Old Male and a record-tying five winners of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile. Baffert appears primed to add to both of those…

Last week, Belmont Park was the focus of the racing world with the final leg of the Triple Crown, the Belmont Stakes, preceded by a host of stakes for other Thoroughbred divisions. Earlier this week, the action shifted across the pond to England's Ascot racecourse for the Royal meet. On Saturday, the Jersey Shore will be the place to be as Monmouth…

It's Closing Day... Keeneland wraps up its April Meet in style. The Grade 3 Bewitch S. is the highlight! Check out J.N. Campbell's selections, and a rundown of some of the key wagers! Race 1: 1-6-3-5 Race 2: 8-12-5-1 Race 3: 7-10-5-4 Race 4: 6-4-11-8 Race 5: 1-6-3-5 Race 6: 8-4-6-3 Race 7: 1-5-8-4 Race 8: 5-4-6-3 Race 9: 5-7-4-6 Race 10:…

Godolphin's recent $200000 Westchester (Grade 3) winner Cody's Wish tops a field of seven colts and geldings that were entered in Monday's $175000 Hanshin presented by the JRA (Listed) at Churchill Downs. The Hanshin is one of three stakes events carded on Monday's closing day program. First post is 12:45 p.m. and the Hanshin will go as Race 8 of 9…

The start of the Darley Alcibiades on October 7 won by Wonder Wheel. Keeneland Photo Keeneland Press Release LEXINGTON, Ky.- Keeneland concluded its 2022 Fall Meet on Saturday with a season record all-sources handle of $208.9 million, which was boosted by record purses, full race fields and championship-caliber competition provided by the nation's…

Barese captures the Gander Feb. 12, 2022 at Aqueduct (Chelsea Durand) OZONE PARK, N.Y.- A total of 99 New York-breds are entered for a special 10-race card on Closing Day Sunday at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet to celebrate the best of New York for the annual Empire Showcase Day, featuring eight stakes races worth $1.6 million, topped by the…

Live Racing Returns to Churchill Downs on Sunday for 19-Day Fall Meet (Churchill Downs / Photos by Holly M. Smith) From the Churchill Downs Media Team: Thoroughbred racing in Kentucky shifts from Keeneland to Churchill Downs on Sunday as the home of the Kentucky Derby readies to open its 133 Fall Meet with an 11-race program - all for promising…

Have you heard the news? Sunday is closing day of the Los Alamitos Thoroughbred meet, and there's a $56126 Pick 6 carryover slated for mandatory payout. The sequence kicks off in Race 6 at 6:05 p.m. ET, and assembling a winning play won't be easy. The minimum bet amount is $2, and there are 44 entries (averaging 7.3 per race) equating to 126720…

Toyota Blue Grass returns to $1 million; Central Bank Ashland moves to opening day LEXINGTON, Ky. - Keeneland revitalizes the 2022 Spring Meet with record $7.7 million in awards. 19 stakes will be run during the meet to be held from April 8-29. The new schedule features increased purses for all stakes and significant changes to the season's two…

ARCADIA, Calif.-Santa Anita's 18-day Autumn meet which begins Friday will be highlighted by 26 stakes, 15 of them graded. Overnight purses remain the same as last year. Most all stakes purses are the same as in 2021, with the following exceptions: both the Golden State Juvenile and the Golden State Juvenile Fillies have had purses increased from…

Bango Joins Elite Group By Winning 8th Race at Churchill Downs (Bango / Coady Photography) From the Churchill Downs Media Team: Tamaroak Partners' classy 5-year-old homebred Bango kicked clear to a 4 ½-length victory in Friday's featured ninth race to become only the 12 documented horse in Churchill Downs' modern history to win at least eight races…

Belmont Stakes and Travers Stakes winner Tiz the Law will break from the No. 17 post in the 146th Kentucky Derby as the strong favorite with 3-5 opening odds. The top three horses will all start next to each other on the far outside with 5-1 Honor A. P. starting to Tiz the Law's left and 8-1 Authentic on his right. The 2020 Kentucky Derby, which…

For Pennsylvania horse racing fans, this is the ultimate exacta. The synergy between Parx Casino and its horse-racing entity built Saturday's record-setting showcase. Parx Racing, bolstered by slot money from the on-site casino, offers more than $4.1 million in purses, dwarfing the entire thoroughbred horse-racing industry. Parx unfolds two $1…

ARCADIA, Calif.- Fans will be greeted with a full complement of world-class racing, a variety of promotions and a comprehensive wagering menu when Santa Anita's 18-day Autumn Meet opens on Friday, Sept. 30. A total of 10 stakes will be offered opening weekend, Oct. 1 & 2, with the Grade I, $300000 Awesome Again Stakes on Oct. 1 providing the winner…

The Kentucky Derby is one of the most iconic sporting events in the world. Every year, millions of fans tune in to NBC to watch top racehorses from around the globe compete in "The Most Exciting Two Minutes In Sports." The 2022 Kentucky Derby will air on Saturday, May 7 from 12 to 2:30 p.m. ET on USA Network and from 2:30 to 7:30 p.m. ET on NBC.…

FRANKLIN, Ky.- The FanDuel Meet at Kentucky Downs concluded Wednesday with record wagering topping $80 million for the seven-day run. Purses again set a record, reaching almost $18 million paid out to horse owners. With $12896355 bet on Wednesday's closing card, total wagering on the meet reached $80175928, clipping Kentucky Downs' previous record…