#Desmond Stakes

Tiz the Bomb earned a spot in the 2022 Kentucky Derby starting gate following a 2 1/4-length victory in the Jeff RubySteaks (G3) over Turfway's Tapeta track on Saturday. Hecompleted 1 1/8 miles in a strong 1:48.60, getting his final furlong in 12.71 seconds. Before Tiz the Bomb's victory in the Jeff Ruby, trainer KenMcPeek had provisional plans to…

Flavien Prat, atop Flightline, looks between his legs for the rest of the field after winning the Breeders' Cup Classic at the Breeders' Cup Championships at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Ky., on Saturday. Photo by Mark Abraham/UPI | License Photo LEXINGTON, Ky., Nov. 7 (UPI) -- The Breeders' Cup is in the rearview mirror and the star of the…

The cream of the flat racing crop assembles at The Curragh and Leopardstown over the course of the weekend for Longines Irish Champions Weekend. As Aidan O'Brien said: " It's an unbelievable two days' racing, we're very lucky to have it, and we want to run as many as we can." O' Brien will run plenty judging by the five-day declarations. The…

Leopardstown's Longines Irish Champions Weekend meeting is one of the highlights of the Irish Flat-racing season. The 2022 edition of this prestigious event promises to be right up there with the very best and, of course, bookmakers have plenty of free bets available throughout the weekend. The meeting is split between Leopardstown (Saturday) and…

The horse racing NAP of the Day with SportsLens experts on Thursday, 11 August, is Boundless Ocean. He is down in distance for Group 3 Desmond Stakes over a mile at Leopardstown this evening (7:20). Jim Bolger's charge looks well worth a wager at tasty 2/1 odds today. Purchased by Sheik Abdululelah Abdulaziz A Almousa since his last horse…