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Sunday, March 8, 2020

With his tongue flapping in the breeze, Carotari went straight to the front while hugging the rail with 3-5 chalk Shekky Shebaz glued to his flank through fractions of :21.69 and :43.59
Carotari shook off last year’s Breeders’ Cup …

Monday, February 17, 2020

Gary Barber’s Laura’s Light picked up right where she left off in her 3-year-old debut and returned to the Santa Anita Park winner’s circle Feb. 16 after running down Lighthouse in the $101,000 Sweet Lift Stakes (G3T).
“We were pre…

Sunday, February 16, 2020

Kept True, second to Cash Offer in last month’s La Verdad Stakes, turned the tables on that filly in Saturday’s $100,000 Broadway Stakes.
Kept True got the same stalking-from-second trip in the Broadway that she did in the La Verda…

Monday, December 30, 2019

Laura’s Light is proving dangerous when left alone on the lead.
At Del Mar on Nov. 30, Laura’s Light led by at least a length to the final turn before she was caught by Alms in the Grade 3 Jimmy Durante Stakes for 2-year-old fillie…

Saturday, November 30, 2019

Howling Pigeon Farms, Gary Barber, Wachtel Stable and Madaket Stables’ Needs Supervision, who began her season with a stakes victory in January, closed her 2019 campaign with a dominant 3 1/4-length triumph in the $100,000 Imagining Safe…

Kallio outkicked grade 1 winner and 1-2 favorite Starship Jubilee in deep stretch to score a three-length victory in Thursday’s 46th running of the $175,000 Cardinal Stakes (G3) for fillies and mares November 28 on the turf at Churchill …

A listed stakes winner in her last out a Parx, Hidden Brook Farm and First Row Partners’ Nay Lady Nay successfully stepped up to graded stakes company on November 29. The 3-year-old daughter of No Nay Never, ridden by Junior Alvarado for…

Sunday, October 20, 2019

What separates good horses from great ones is consistency. And Peter Brant’s five-year-old New York-bred mare Fifty Five is a shining example.
On Saturday on Empire Showcase Day at Belmont Park, Fifty Five backed up her 1-5 odds un…

Monday, October 7, 2019

Nay Lady Nay overcame some trouble at the start and rallied from last to notch a good-lookin score in the Parx Fall Oaks on October 7 at the Bensalem, Pennsylvania oval.
The cleverly-named filly by No Nay Never was purchased for th…

Monday, September 30, 2019

The $200,000 Grade 2 Zenyatta Stakes on September 29 at Santa Anita Park belonged to John Shirreffs, the trainer of the great mare for which the race is named, when Paradise Woods outran early leader Secret Spice to win the contest, a “W…