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Saturday, November 30, 2019

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…

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…

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…

Sunday, September 22, 2019

At the top of the short Charles Town homestretch, four 2-year-old fillies had any sort of chance to win the $100,000 Dickie Moore Stakes. Colby would’ve easily been the longest price among them at that moment.

Colby had …

Peter Brant’s Fifty Five continued to find a comfort level at Belmont Park, staying off the speed before overtaking Wish Upon at the top of the stretch and fending off War Canoe’s late challenge to win the $125,000 John Hettinger for New…

Saturday, September 21, 2019

A change in distance resulted in a change of fortune for Hidden Brook Farm sales grad Cleon Jones in the $145,000 Bertram F. Bongard Stakes for New York-bred Juveniles September 10 at Belmont Park.
A beaten second behind City Man i…

Friday, August 23, 2019

Hall of Fame jockey Javier Castellano won a pair of stakes, including a sentimental win aboard 7-year-old veteran Offering Plan, on Friday at Saratoga Race Course on New York Breeders’ Showcase Day.
Owned by Michael Dubb, Nantucket…