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Brian Hernandez Jr., Thorpedo Anna, winner: “I felt confident. She was out there and feeling comfortable. It means so much to win it for this team. Kenny (McPeek) and his barn have done a lot for my career.” Junior Alvarado, Just F Y I, runner-up: “She ran a great race.
Kenny McPeek, Thorpedo Anna, winner: “She was a bear today. She has been training great and when I saw Brian (Hernandez) had the race in control I thought she could do it.
Filly Thorpedo Anna went wire to wire to dominate the 150th Kentucky Oaks, winning by at least four lengths on Friday at Churchill Downs.
Thorpedo Anna had never run on a sloppy track, but the 3-year-old filly is named for co-owner Mark Edwards' granddaughter, competitive swimmer Anna Thorpe, and it turned out to be a winning hunch play in this year's $1.5 million Kentucky Oaks. "That was insane," the filly's namesake said outside the winner's circle.
The Rick Dutrow, Jr.-trained Messier scored a redemptive victory to give jockey Jose Gomez his first career graded stakes victory in Friday's Grade 3, $175,000 Westchester, a one-turn mile for older horses, at Belmont at the Big A meet at Aqueduct in South Ozone Park, N.Y.
Saturday’s card at Belmont at the Big A will be bolstered by a Pick 6 carryover of $35,817 after the multi-race wager went unsolved on Friday’s nine-race program at Aqueduct in South Ozone Park, N.Y..
Considering his success on the grass and with fillies in particular, you would be hard-pressed to find a graded stakes in that category east of the Mississippi that trainer Chad Brown has not won.
After running the worst race of her life in the Grade 2 Fantasy Stakes, My Mane Squeeze scaled back in distance to massive success on Friday in the Grade 2 Eight Belles Stakes at Churchill Downs.
TEC Racing’s Fast as Flight collared longtime leader Heavenly Sunday at the sixteenth pole and went on to post a one-length victory over Sparkle Blue in the 67th running of the $386,334 Grade 3 Modesty for fillies and mares Friday afternoon.
Klaravich Stables’ Royalty Interest led gate-to-wire to win her first graded stakes attempt in Friday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Sheepshead Bay, for older fillies and mares going 1 3/8 miles over the inner turf, at Belmont at the Big A.
First Mission may have disappointed earlier this year in the Grade 1 Pegasus World Cup but on May 3, he validated his connections' faith that that earlier race was just a fluke.
Brittlyn Stable’s Ova Charged survived an early speed duel with Stone Silent and then held off a host of challengers in deep stretch to post a neck victory over Secret Money to win the 14th running of the $332,000 Grade 3 Unbridled Sidney for fillies and mares Friday afternoon at Churchill Downs.
Monmouth Park will have a new look to its racing office when the 51-day meet gets under way on Saturday, May 11, with Gerry Stanislawzyk taking over as the racing secretary, it was announced today.
Juddmonte homebred Idiomatic, last year's Champion Older Dirt Female, launched her 2024 season with a resounding victory in Friday's Grade 1 La Troienne at Churchill Downs, bounding over the sloppy track to complete 1 1/16 miles in 1:42.24.
Jockey Edgard Zayas continued to win races in bunches Thursday at Gulfstream Park. Zayas, who rode four winners on Saturday’s program, won another five races Thursday to push his Royal Plan Meet-leading victory total to 27.
After two successful launch events in Lexington, KY., Light Up Racing is thrilled to be hosted by the Ocala Breeders Sales Company for a night of learning, listening, and lighting up for racing.
An incredible challenge awaits Nick Bell, renowned stud manager and veteran cyclist, when he aims to cycle the length of France over the course of 11 days to raise funds in support of Au-delà des Pistes, France’s national racehorse aftercare charity.
A lawsuit brought by a group of bettors against trainer Bob Baffert and Churchill Downs, Inc. was ordered dismissed for a second time by federal appeals court on May 2.
Last week, Brook Smith, longtime Backside Learning Center (BLC) supporter, local philanthropist and part-owner of Sierra Leone (one of the Kentucky Derby 150 favorites), challenged horse owners to enroll their horses to the BLC’s “Purses for a Purpose” initiative.
Time to analyze the 2024 Kentucky Derby field, in post position order, in the form of Haiku; a Japanese poem of 17 syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five.
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