Twirling Aces (Twirling Candy) took plenty of money as the even-money favorite despite being the only first-time starter in this auction price-restricted field. Encountering plenty of early trouble from the gate, she had to settle wide in the middle of…
With the 2026 Belmont Stakes Racing Festival underway at Saratoga, the New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) is offering early access for tickets to the 2027 Belmont Stakes Racing Festival. The 2027 event will be returned to Belmont Park, which…
5.30 Leopardstown, Mdn, 2yo, f, 7f 20yT Coolmore and Flaxman Stables' newcomer IBELIEVEICANFLY (Frankel {GB}) is out of G2 Prix Corrida second That Which Is Not (Elusive Quality) and thus kin to the ill-fated G1 Irish Derby and G1 Tattersalls…
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Led by GI Preakness S. winner Journalism (Curlin) and GI Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile winner Nysos (Nyquist), a talented field of seven will line up for Saturday's 'Win and You're In' GI Hill 'N' Dale Metropolitan…
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – When it's a big race day, you'll find Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert. Saturday is a big race day at Saratoga Race Course. Seven graded stakes–six of them Grade Is worth $5.9 million. Of course,…
A colt by Blue Point topped the first edition of the Aktem Breeze-Up Sale at Maisons-Laffitte, selling to Marco Bozzi for €50,000 on Wednesday. Sold as lot 17B from Knockanglass Stables, the son of French listed heroine Firebird Song (Invincible…
A trio of turf graded stakes kicks off the Thoroughbred season at Saratoga on Thursday, headed by the GIII Pennine Ridge Stakes which features sophomores going 1 1/16 miles on the turf. Installed the 9-5 morning-line choice, Mo Speed Racing's…
Aidan O'Brien annexed the last three editions of the Curragh's Sky Bet Club Irish EBF Maiden–with Amadeus Mozart, Henri Matisse and Unquestionable–and made it four in a row when Aix La Chapelle (Justify), a son of dual Group 1 winner…
1st-SAR, 115K, Msw, 2yo, f, 5 1/2f, 12:35 p.m. Trainer Todd Pletcher debuts a pair of 2-year-old fillies in the Thursday opener at Saratoga. Rail-drawn PERPETUAL (Drain the Clock) impressed at OBS March earlier this year, working a quarter-mile in…
He's run placed in the Blue Riband Trial and the Lingfield Derby Trial as well as partaking of the Derby gallops morning, meaning that no horse in the field for Saturday will have greater experience of the oddities of Epsom…