Play the Music hit all the right notes in the $135,000 Whimsical Stakes (G3) on Saturday at Woodbine. A wide-open field of 14 went postward in the six-furlong race for older fillies and mares, with longshot The Arcadian Way showing the way early.
Two-year-old colt Mensa sold for $740,000 on April 29 in the one-horse Mensa Flash Sale, setting a record for the Fasig-Tipton Digital platform. Offered by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent for D.J.
The Jockey Club of Canada hosted the 49th Annual Sovereign Awards ceremony through a live presentation on the evening of Thursday, April 18, 2024. Highlights
Fresh off a second-place finish in the Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational (G1), Team Hanley, Richard Schermerhorn, and Paul Braverman’s I’m Very Busy ships to Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots to take on 12 older turf males in the $300,000 Muniz Memorial (G2).
Resolute Racing’s Pounce rallied strongly down the stretch and caught Life’s an Audible just before the wire to win Saturday’s 38th running of the $200,000 Herecomesthebride (G3) at Gulfstream Park.
Hall of Fame trainer Mark Casse is hoping that he has all the answers in Saturday’s $200,000 Herecomesthebride (G3) at Gulfstream Park. Three of the 10 fillies entered in the race will come out of Casse’s barn.
Sunday’s Rainbow 6, with an estimated pool of $700,000, features a pair of maiden special weight events for 3-year-old fillies at 7½ furlongs on the turf.
Gary Barber and Kinsman Stable’s Colonel Bradley Stakes winner Strong Quality returns to face 11 accomplished turf specialists that entered Saturday’s 38th running of the $175,000 Fair Grounds Stakes presented by Horse Racing Nation (G3).
Woodbine's 2023 meet concluded Sunday with Kazushi Kimura earning his third consecutive jockey crown courtesy of 161 wins, and Mark Casse topping the trainer leaderboard for the 15th time courtesy of 113 wins.
They've traveled 3,000 miles in hopes of landing a coveted Grade 1 win. They hail from the barns of Chad Brown, Charles Appleby and Mark Casse and they're 'invading' Del Mar this weekend as part of the Turf Festival.
Mark Casse-trained Get Smokin, a multiple graded stakes-winning 6-year-old gelding by Get Stormy, will be scratched from Saturday's Grade 1, $4 million Longines Breeders' Cup Turf.
Mark Casse figured it would take some time for 5-year-old Fev Rover (IRE) to hit her best stride, but he felt certain that day would come. An accomplished
The Fasig-Tipton October Digital Sale closed Tuesday afternoon with 100 horses sold for $1,820,000. Offerings included breeding stock, horses of racing age, yearlings, and a stallion.
Dancing Duchess, under Javier Castellano, got up just in time to win the $200,000 Algonquin Stakes Sunday at Woodbine. The dark bay daughter of Munnings
Last of 12 2-year-olds heading into the final turn, Can Group unleashed a furious outside rally down the stretch to prevail by the slimmest of margins in a 27-1 upset in the $350,000 Castle & Key Bourbon Stakes (G2) Sunday at Keeneland.
Tracy Farmer's Fev Rover, an Irish-bred mare by Gutaifan, won Sunday's Grade 1, $750,000 E.P. Taylor Stakes at Woodbine in Toronto, Ontario, leading for the six furlongs, backing up into third position on the turn for home, then re-rallying under Javier Castellano to win by about 2 1/2 lengths.
D.J. Stable's millionaire graded stakes-winner Webslinger brings class and consistency to Saturday's Grade 3, $500,000 Jockey Club Derby Invitational, an 11-furlong inner turf test for sophomores, at Belmont at the Big A.
Fourteen 3-year-olds, including King's Plate winner Paramount Prince and runner-up Elysian Field, Kaukokaipuu, who contested the Plate and Prince of Wales Stakes, and three Kevin Attard trainees, are slated to go postward in Sunday's $400,000 Breeders' Stakes, the third jewel in the OLG Canadian Triple Crown, at Woodbine.
My Boy Prince, who turned plenty of heads with his runaway victory in Woodbine's Simcoe Stakes, will look to boost his status in Saturday's bet365 Summer Stakes (G1T).
Get Smokin had things is own way Saturday at Kentucky Downs as he made all the pace and won $1.7-million FanDuel Kentucky Turf Cup (G2) in a tour de force performance Under Fernando De La Cruz, the 6-year-old Get Stormy gelding trained by Mark Casse went to the front at the start and was pursued by Santin throughout.
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