#Team Valor

Titleholder wins Sunday's Takarazuka Kinen, now targeting the Arc d'Triomphe. Photo courtesy of Japan Racing Association June 27 (UPI) -- Tawny Port's victory in Saturday's Ohio Derby serves notice the scramble among U.S. 3-year-olds is far from over while Westover's dominance of the Irish Derby indicates he's not out of the frame, either, despite…

H ORSERACING is not only a sporting discipline in this country but a huge industry, with a massive following, across the entire nation. It provides a way for tens of thousands of people, in this country, to eke out a living, from those who train the horses, the jockeys who ride them to the punters, who take a chance, hoping for some rich pickings,…

Colorful Breeders' Cup-winning trainer Julio Canani, who died in Pasadena last week at the age of 82, made an indelible mark on horseracing throughout California. Here Team Valor International boss Barry Irwin, a longtime friend and associate, pays tribute. Such was the make-up of Julio Canani that many others are bound to have better, funnier and…

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…

This Canadian-bred daughter of Court Vision ran a big race to just miss in the E.P. Taylor last fall at odds of 41/1. The Josie Carroll-trained mare has failed to win since that effort, but she once again seems to be rounding into top form in the fall at Woodbine. She has rallied well in her last two to be within shouting distance of Mutamakina,…

By Mary Eddy - NYRA Press Office OZONE PARK, N.Y.- Wertheimer and Frere's Pao Alto looks to earn his first stateside victory for conditioner Graham Motion in Sunday's $135000 Artie Schiller, a one-mile inner turf test for 3-year-olds and up, at Aqueduct Racetrack. Pao Alto, a 5-year-old French-bred son of Intello, will cut back one furlong from his…

Saturday features a massive afternoon of racing at Parx Racing in Philadelphia with no less than 10 stakes races. A strong field of nine 3-year-old fillies, led by Kentucky Oaks winner Secret Oath, have been entered in Saturday's Cotillion Stakes at Parx Racing with seven of the nine listed at 8-1 or lower in the morning line odds coming in at the…

BENSALEM, Pa.- A field of nine is entered for Saturday's 53rd running of the Grade 1, $1 million Cotillion Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Parx Racing. The 1 1/16 miles is the co-feature along with the betPARX Pennsylvania Derby on the card that includes two other graded stakes among the 10 total stakes. Atop the Cotillion field is Briland Farm's…

BENSALEM, PA - A field of nine is entered for Saturday's 53rd running of the Grade 1, $1 million Cotillion Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Parx Racing. The 1 1/16 miles is the co-feature along with the betPARX Pennsylvania Derby on the card that includes two other graded stakes among the 10 total stakes. Atop the Cotillion field is Briland Farm's…

Aron Wellman has been around racing since he was 8 years old and a trainer sneaked him into the barns at Del Mar. As founder and president of Eclipse Thoroughbreds, he is no stranger to big victories. And, while the Rancho Santa Fe resident wasn't ready to say Sharing's triumph in Friday's Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Santa Anita was…

BENSALEM, Pa.- Nominations are set for the Grade 1, $1 million betPARX Pennsylvania Derby with as many as 28 3-year-olds under consideration for the 42nd renewal of the 1 1/8-mile event Saturday, Sept. 24 at Parx Racing. The betPARX Pennsylvania Derby anchors a 10-stakes program that also co-features the Grade 1, $ million Cotillion for 3-year-old…

Nominations are set for the Grade 1, $1 million betPARX Pennsylvania Derby with as many as 28 3-year-olds under consideration for the 42nd renewal of the 1 1/8-mile event Saturday, Sept. 24 at Parx Racing in Bensalem, Penn. The betPARX Pennsylvania Derby anchors a 10-stakes program that also co-features the Grade 1, $ million Cotillion for…

Thursday, September 8, 2022 at 12:54 pm |Back to: Europe, Blairmayne: has been a stable star for Natalia Lupini | Racingfotos.com By Natalia Lupini may only have a string of 16 horses in her Gilford yard in County Down but the Milan native is hoping to make a major impact on Longines Irish Champions Weekend. This season has been Lupini's best yet.…

The Frankel mare has won top-level races in Germany and France on her previous four starts and she made it five in a row at York where she dug deep to see off the final challenge of Aidan O'Brien's Tuesday. A furlong out the Cazoo Oaks heroine got to the winner's quarters but it was the five-year-old who got the better of the three-year-old under…

An intriguing field of six will sprint about 6 1/2 furlongs down the hillside turf course at Santa Anita in Sunday's $100000 Daytona S. (G3). #1 BURNING TURF (9-5) - Blacker trainee has won three races in succession to kick off 2022 with the last pair coming over the course. Acclamation gelding has responded well since cutting back to sprint trips,…