New Jersey Horseplayers Are Still Waiting on NYRA Bets
More than a year after announcing its arrival, NYRA Bets still hasn't hit the starting gate in New Jersey.
More than a year after announcing its arrival, NYRA Bets still hasn't hit the starting gate in New Jersey.
Godolphin's Emma Lovatt accepts the TOBA National Owner of the Year honor for Sheikh Mohammed's Godolphin during the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association awards Sept. 6 at Fasig-Tipton Kentucky in Lexington.
The lone non-stakes winner in the six-horse $400,000 Locust Grove Stakes (G2) at Churchill Downs Sept. 13, Regaled aims to build on her three consecutive stakes placings for her new connections.
Shares in leading young stallions Ole Kirk and Southport Tycoon, both by Written Tycoon, dominated bidding in the Inglis Digital September (Early) Online Sale, finishing as the two highest-priced lots when the sale closed Sept. 10.
During Sept. 10, the third day of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale, Jacob West signed a ticket on a colt (Hip 546) by first-crop sire Jackie's Warrior for $1.3 million for Robert and Lawana Low—the stallion's highest-priced yearling to date.
Bloodstock agent Mike Ryan signed the ticket for the chestnut colt out of grade 1-placed stakes winner Cherry Lodge, by Bernardini. Gainesway bred and sold the colt that Ryan bought for a partnership.
Tom Ryan, managing partner and racing manager for SF Bloodstock, accepts the award for TOBA partnership of the year on behalf of SF Racing, Starlight Racing, Madaket Stables, Stonestreet Stables, Robert Masterson, and Catherine Donovan.
George Messina and Michael Lee's Fionn was as game as could be in the $2 million Dueling Grounds Oaks Invitational Stakes (G3T) Sept. 10, proving best in an all-out slugfest to the wire with Candy Quest for her third consecutive…
Only one yearling by leading sire Gun Runner brought seven figures during the Sept. 10 third session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale but a colt sold as Hip 731 grabbed the day's highest price. Spendthrift Farm made the buy.