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Saturday, October 30, 2021

Class prevailed in the inaugural running of the $100,000 Oyster Bay as Klaravich Stables’ Value Proposition backed up his 4-5 favoritism to capture the seven-furlong event for 3-year-olds and upward over the Widener turf at Belmont Park on October 30. Value Proposition, trained by Chad Brown, has finished in the money in all six starts this year, and […]

Saturday, October 16, 2021

Commonwealth New Era Racing’s Aug Lutes rallied wide down the lane to upset Friday’s inaugural running of the $100,000 Glen Cove, a seven-furlong Widener turf sprint for sophomore fillies, at Belmont Park. Trained by Michael Trombetta and patiently piloted by Jose Lezcano, the dark bay daughter of Midnight Lute made her turf debut a winning […]

Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Field Pass took the lead in the opening strides of the Grade 3 Knickerbocker and looked poised to take the field gate to wire when Sacred Life powered down the stretch to nip Field Pass at the wire at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y. Breaking from the rail, Field Pass took the lead at the […]

Sunday, October 3, 2021

Donegal Racing’s Ready to Purrform, in just his second career start and first in a stakes, lived up to his name and will be pointed to the Breeders’ Cup following a powerful 3 ¼-length victory in Saturday’s $150,000 Laurel Futurity atLaurel Park. The 94th running of the Futurity for 2-year-olds was the first of five […]

Flavien Prat had only one useful rein to guide Dr. Schivel for almost the entire six furlongs of the $200,500 Santa Anita Sprint Championship Stakes (G2) Oct. 2 at Santa Anita Park—and they won anyway. After Dr. Schivel broke from the rail and Vertical Threat from post 2 took about a three-quarter-length lead, Prat appeared […]

Treadway Racing Stable’s Sail By, ridden by Junior Alvarado, captured Saturday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Miss Grillo going 1 1/16 miles for juvenile fillies over the firm inner turf course, at Belmont Park. Trained by Leah Gyarmati, Sail By returned to the grass after a third-place finish in the off-the-turf P.G. Johnson, contested at seven furlongs […]

Monday, September 20, 2021

Reylu Gutiérrez picked a pretty good spot to break his Churchill Downs maiden. And his ride, Hidden Connection, left no doubt that she was much the best of this group of 2-year-old fillies Saturday night in the Grade 3, $300,000 Pocahontas Stakes. “I had a lot of horse left,” Gutiérrez said. “A ton.” Never more than 1 […]

Sunday, September 5, 2021

Klaravich Stables’ Value Proposition cruised home to a nearly three-length victory in the $150,000 Red Bank Stakes on Saturday afternoon at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, N.J. The Chad Brown-trainee was dispatched the 3-10 favorite and the 5-year-old ridgling stepped the flat mile over “good” turf in 1:38.18 and paid $2.60 and $2.10. Pacesetter Proven Strategies […]

Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Dr. Schivel, who finished last year’s Del Mar summer meeting with a victory in the Runhappy Del Mar Futurity (G1), returned to the track this year to defeat older sprinters in the $300,000 Bing Crosby Stakes (G1) July 31. The six-furlong Crosby earned Dr. Schivel a Breeders’ Cup challenge berth to the Breeders’ Cup Sprint […]

Sunday, July 18, 2021

Chad Brown now has a fourth United Nations Stakes (G1) trophy to go along with his equal number of Eclipse Awards as outstanding trainer. The New York-based conditioner won the $515,000 grass race at Monmouth Park for the fourth time July 17 when the speedy Tribhuvan, a graduate of Hidden Brook Florida, took charge early and […]