#Madaket Stables

Topping a Bob Baffert trifecta, REINCARNATE (Good Magic), the co-longest shot on the board at 16-1, held off Newgate (Into Mischief) and favored National Treasure (Quality Road) to steal the GIII Sham S. Fresh off his maiden-breaking score in just his second start on the dirt following a pair of turf efforts in the fall, Reincarnate, a $775000…

G3 Sham Stakes Preview: Spun Intended Could Spell Trouble From the Santa Anita Media Team: In what appears to be a David vs. Goliath scenario at Santa Anita, trainer Mark Glatt's Spun Intended will take on no less than four Bob Baffert Derby hopefuls among a field of six sophomores in Sunday's Grade III, $100000 Sham Stakes at one mile. Named for…

In what appears to be a David vs. Goliath scenario at Santa Anita, trainer Mark Glatt's Spun Intended will take on no less than four Bob Baffert Derby hopefuls among a field of six sophomores in Sunday's Grade III, $100000 Sham Stakes at one mile. Named for the winner of the 1973 Santa Anita Derby and subsequent runner-up to Secretariat in that…

On the final Saturday of its Bing Crosby Season, Del Mar will offer a stakes tripleheader topped by the Grade 1, $400000 Hollywood Derby, a turf battle deluxe that has drawn an overflow field to the seaside track north of San Diego, Calif. Also on tap for the big afternoon will be the Grade 2, $250000 Seabiscuit Handicap for 3-year-olds and up on…

Prince Abama was the victor in the Hollywood Turf Cup Nov. 26 at Del Mar. (Benoit Photos) ARCADIA, Calif-Trainer Phil D'Amato, who has become a dominant force on turf while relying heavily on Irish-bred imports, will send out likely post time favorite Prince Abama, a 4-year-old Irish-bred gelding in Monday's Grade II San Gabriel stakes at Santa…

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…

All along, Avalanche defenseman Erik Johnson hoped he wouldn't have a chance to be in Louisville on the first Saturday in May, sipping mint juleps and watching the Kentucky Derby in person. - THIS STORY WAS UPDATED FRIDAY -- That would have meant the Avalanche already had been eliminated from the playoffs. But for a while, it seemed there was a…

Regal Glory winds up her career with a victory in Sunday's Grade I Matriarch at Del Mar. Benoit photo, courtesy of Del Mar Turf Club Dec. 5 (UPI) -- Mind Control and Regal Glory wound up their careers with Grade I victories a continent apart in weekend racing, while the another name popped up on the "Road to the Roses" Kentucky Derby 2023…

Red Oak Stable and Madaket Stables' multiple Grade 1-winner Mind Control will retire on top of his game after securing a trademark gutsy score in Saturday's Grade 1, $750000 Cigar Mile Handicap presented by NYRA Bets, at Aqueduct Racetrack. Trained by Hall of Famer Todd Pletcher and piloted by fellow Hall of Famer John Velazquez, the 6-year-old son…

A trio of stakes races, headed by the 82nd edition of the Grade 1, $400000 Hollywood Derby, will highlight a special racing card Saturday at Del Mar on the penultimate day of the sport for the 2022 Bing Crosby Season. Also on the nine-race program will be the 32nd running of the Grade 3, $100000 Jimmy Durante Stakes for 2-year-old fillies and the…

Mind Control after the 2021 G2 John A. Nerud, his most recent win on the NYRA circuit (Susie Raisher) By Ryan Martin - NYRA Press Office OZONE PARK, N.Y.- Red Oak Stable and Madaket Stables' dual Grade 1-winner Mind Control will attempt to go out on top when he takes on a field consisting of three other Grade 1 winners in Saturday's Grade 1,…

Trainer Chad Brown won four consecutive graded stakes on the Haskell Stakes undercard to tie a record set by Todd Pletcher when Adhamo defeated stablemate Tribhuvan and eight other top turf runners in the Grade 1, $600000 United Nations Stakes on Saturday at Monmouth Park. Pletcher won five races on the 2016 Haskell card but not four straight…

Temple City Terror storms to victory in G3 Dowager (Coady Photography) By Keith McCalmont - NYRA Press Office OZONE PARK, N.Y.- Town and Country Racing's Temple City Terror will look to double up on graded scores in Friday's Grade 3, $300000 Long Island, an 11-furlong inner-turf test for fillies and mares 3-years-old and up, at Aqueduct…

Sunday's 49th edition of the $250000 Eddie Read Stakes has proven a popular nine-furlong spin on the Jimmy Durante Turf Course, drawing the maximum number of runners with 11 and one more besides who sits and waits on the also-eligible list. The Grade II Read is named for Del Mar's first director of public relations, a role he filled exceptionally…

Whereshetoldmetogo winning last year's edition of the Bender by a neck. Photo by Jim McCue/MJC David Joseph/Maryland Jockey Club LAUREL, Md. - Defending champion Whereshetoldmetogo, a 13-time career stakes winner, and graded-stakes winners Cordmaker and Double Crown top 24 horses nominated to the $75000 Howard & Sondra Bender Memorial Friday, Nov.…

The encore to the 1998 Breeders' Cup Classic was Ghostzapper's 2004 performance. The 1998 Classic was said to be the greatest field ever assembled. Then the 2004 race was said to be the best. November 5, 2022, we saw Flightline win with a hand ride to an 8 1/2 victory and that race and Flightline were called the best. So, who is the BC Classic…

Sharp Aza Tack ran off to a 7 1/4-length victory in the Tyro Stakes at Monmouth on July 30. Bill Denver/EQUI-PHOTO Breeders' Cup Notes/Edited LEXINGTON, Ky.-R3 Racing's Juvenile Turf Sprint contender Sharp Aza Tack galloped 1 1/8 m over Keeneland's all-weather training track Wednesday morning with exercise rider Connor Murray aboard. The…

Pletcher-trainee Atomically out for a breeze at Keeneland Wednesday morning. Coady Photography Breeders' Cup Notes/Edited LEXINGTON, Ky.-Trainer Todd Pletcher's 12 Breeders' Cup victories have come from nine races, but one race missing from that resume is the NetJets Juvenile Fillies (G1). He will have two chances to alter that statistic Friday…

The brilliantly fast Gamine, a dual Grade 1 winner owned by Michael Lund Petersen and trained by three-time Oaks-winning trainer Bob Baffert, has been installed as the even-money favorite for Friday's $1.25 million Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs. The 3-year-old daughter of Into Mischief drew post position 5 for the 1 1/8-mile race with Hall of…

Bob Baffert has dominated Santa Anita's Grade 1, $300000 American Pharoah Stakes, winning it nine times. The trainer enters the race's 2021 edition with three of the seven entrants. Yet, this running comes with the caveat that none of Baffert's runners can earn qualifying points Friday toward the first Saturday in May. Baffert trains Corniche, 6-5…

Opalina (Optimizer), the third choice in a wide-open pari-mutuel affair, took the overland route into the final furlong and a half of Saturday's GIII Sweetest Chant S. at Gulfstream Park, but stayed on gamely late to become the first black-type winner for her Calumet Farm-based stallion. One of the first to break the line from her low draw, Opalina…

Little Red Feather Racing, Madaket Stables and William Strauss' Nagirroc built on a promising maiden victory when conquering his first attempt at stakes level in Sunday's Grade 3, $150000 Futurity for 2-year-olds going six furlongs over the outer turf at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet. Now 2-for-2 for trainer Graham Motion and his ownership…

Nagirroc (c, 2, Lea-Emma Spencer {Ire}, by Zamindar) got up late to win the GIII Futurity S. at Aqueduct Sunday and earn an automatic berth in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint. The 7-2 shot sat just in behind the battling Gaslight Dancer (City of Light) and Vacation Dance (The Lieutenant) who contested the pace through fractions of:22.09…

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Keeneland Barn Notes: 10 Fillies Invited to $600000 QEII Challenge Cup (Keeneland / Coady Photography) From the Keeneland Media Team: TEN FILLIES INVITED TO $600000 QUEEN ELIZABETH II CHALLENGE CUP PRESENTED BY DIXIANA Bobby Flay's Pizza Bianca, winner of last fall's Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1), and Klaravich Stables' McKulick (GB),…

OZONE PARK, N.Y.- Madaket Stables, Little Red Feather Racing and William Strauss' Nagirroc will make his stakes debut off two weeks' rest in Sunday's Grade 3, $150000 Futurity, a six-furlong outer turf sprint for juveniles, at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet. The Futurity, which offers the winner a berth into the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile…

OZONE PARK, N.Y.- Four-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer Chad Brown will saddle Public Sector, L'Imperator and Lonesome Fugitive as he looks for his third consecutive score in Sunday's Grade 3, $150000 Knickerbocker, a nine-furlong inner turf test for 3-year-olds and upward, at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet. The Knickerbocker is slated as…

OZONE PARK, N.Y.- For the past two seasons, George Krikorian's War Like Goddess has displayed superiority amongst her staying female counterparts at graded stakes level on grass. In Saturday's Grade 1, $500000 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic, the talented bay mare will target a new task when facing males for the first time for Hall of Famer Bill Mott. The…

Arcadia, CA - The final race of Future Stars Friday ended in fireworks when the 45/1 longshot Storm the Court re-rallied late to defeat Anneau d'Or and typhoon Friday's $2 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1) at Santa Anita Park. Dennis' Moment, the 4/5 favorite who was expected to contest the pace, fell to his knees out of the gate and spotted the…

As the world continues to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, the racing industry is piecing together a schedule to prepare horses for the delayed Triple Crown. One of the prep races that was postponed because of the pandemic was the Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby. Originally scheduled to be run on April 4th, the race is now scheduled to be run…

Bob Baffert-trained horses may be ineligible to run in this year's Kentucky Derby, but they're dominating the lead-up. Of the 21 Kentucky Derby prep races conducted since September, Baffert's horses have won six of them - two each by Corniche and Newgrange and one by Messier and Blackadder. Newgrange will look to continue the trend Saturday as the…

With undefeated phenom Flightline (Tapit) and sophomore star Epicenter (Not This Time) headlining a respectably deep GI Breeders' Cup Classic, one oft-repeated quip is that 2022 is turning out to be "a tough year to have a good horse" aiming for a divisional championship. Yet a few rungs farther down the class ladder-more than a few, in truth-a…

OZONE PARK, N.Y.- Lightning finally struck for John D. Gunther and Tanya Gunther's Love And Thunder, who captured her first graded stakes win with a last-to-first move, storming down the stretch to collar pacesetter Evvie Jets in Saturday's Grade 3, $175000 Athenia for fillies and mares 3-years-old and upward going nine furlongs on the inner turf…

Keep Grinding named 4-1 morning-line favourite in 162 Queen's Plate TORONTO, August 18, 2021 - Thirteen hopefuls, including four Kevin Attard trainees, will vie for top prize in the $1 million Queen's Plate, first leg of the OLG Canadian Triple Crown, highlighting a stakes-laden, entertainment-filled Sunday card of racing at Woodbine. The 162…

BALTIMORE, Md.- Michael Dubb, Madaket Stables and Michael Caruso's Grade 2 winner Plum Ali, winless in her last three starts, faces six rivals as she chases a fifth career stakes victory in Saturday's $100000 All Along at historic Pimlico Race Course. The 51 running of the All Along for fillies and mares 3 and up going 1 1/8 miles on the grass is…

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Trainer Chad Brown clinched his fifth H. Allen Jerkens Award for leading trainer at Saratoga Race Course and secured his 12th stakes triumph of the summer meet when saddling Emaraaty to his first graded win in Closing Day Monday's 64th running of the Grade 3, $200000 Bernard Baruch Handicap for 3-year-olds and upward going…

Churchill Downs' News: Santin, Smooth Like Strait May Be Showdown in Saturday's G1 Arlington Million (Santin / Photos by Holly M. Smith) From the Churchill Downs Media Team: Godolphin's Old Forester Bourbon Turf Classic (Grade I) winner Santin will face six fellow turf specialists, including Cannon Thoroughbreds' 2021 Shoemaker Mile (GI)…

Godolphin's Old Forester Bourbon Turf Classic (Grade 1) winner Santin will face six fellow turf specialists, including Cannon Thoroughbreds' 2021 Shoemaker Mile (GI) hero Smooth Like Strait, in Saturday's 39th running of the $1 million Arlington Million (Grade 1) at Churchill Downs. Thanks to cooperation from Ellis Park, the Kentucky Horse Racing…