Elite Power took the lead in mid-stretch and eased to a 1 ½-length victory over Gunite in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) in the final BC race on Saturday at Santa Anita. The 5-year-old so...
The Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) is another of the seven original Breeders’ Cup races. It has always been contested at the six-furlong distance and this year again offers a purse of $2 million. This ...
By Margaret Ransom California’s road to the Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) gets underway on Saturday with the $300,000 Bing Crosby Stakes (G1) at Del Mar, a BC “Win & You’re In” event. C Z Ro...
By Lynne Snierson Florent Geroux is packing his tack and moving to Oaklawn Park this season. The addition of one of the nation’s top riders to the already intensely competitive jockey colony makes a...
By Margaret Ransom A talent-filled opening day program on Saturday at Santa Anita Park will help usher out a year of horse racing that has been unpredictable, turbulent and downright implausible, and ...
By Noel Michaels The year 2020 will go down as one of the strangest in thoroughbred racing, with no fans in attendance most of the year, many tracks closed for significant amounts of time, and a Tripl...
Monomoy Girl Closes Career with Distaff Victory By Richard Rosenblatt, Ed McNamara and Jenny Kellner What a way to go out! The champion mare Monomoy Girl capped a brilliant career with an exceptional ...
By Ed McNamara The Kentucky thoroughbred is revered throughout the world as a four-legged aristocrat. Horses who took their first steps in the Bluegrass State have won 112 of the 146 Kentucky Derbies ...
Breeders’ Cup: Midnight Bisou, Mitole Set for Big Day at Santa Anita By Richard Rosenblatt Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen has allowed assistant Scott Blasi to do most of the talking this week, ...
Pay Attention! BC Sprint is Quick, and Contentious US Racing Team We’re talking Sprint here. As in don’t blink because Saturday’s edition of the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) could turn...