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Horse racing celebrates resilience, and perhaps no jockey has demonstrated more of that trait in recent years than Julian Pimentel. The 45-year-old Pimentel, a winner of more than 1,800 races in his career, took a hiatus from riding after recording 42 wins in 2021. He returned to the track earlier this year and reached the […]

The Puma had to wait for the third Saturday in September for his Derby victory. Scratched from the GI Kentucky Derby with swelling in his leg due to a skin infection, The Puma dug down gamely to fend off favored ‘TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard’ Further Ado (Gun Runner) by a half-length in a […]

If you thought Manuka Honey might not get a mile in the Pocahontas Stakes on Saturday at Churchill Downs, you must not have gotten a look at the filly. Manuka Honey, if anything, seems to want to go farther than a mile, and it was through the last furlong of Saturday’s race that she validated […]

Military Time and Storm’s Wake, both graduates of the Hidden Brook Farm program, scored Stakes victories on Monday, September 7. Military Time stalked a pressured pace from the inside, tipped to the four path at the top of the stretch and turned back a late rally from Brachetto for a half-length win Monday in the […]

Odds-on favorite Manuka Honey stalked a contested early pace, ran down the leaders on the turn and drew off to a 7-length win Sunday in the ninth running of the $250,000 Ellis Park Debutante at Ellis Park. A Kentucky-bred daughter of Upstart out of the Hold Me Back mare Drop Dead Red, Manuka Honey was […]

Hidden Brook Farm will offer three promising yearlings at the 2026 Fasig-Tipton New York-Bred Yearling sale in Saratoga Springs, New York. Hip #338 – a colt by multiple Graded Stakes winner Independence Hall, out of the black type mare Fun Finder. Hip #601 – a colt by the Grade 1-winning War Front son Annapolis. He’s […]

Klaravich Stables’ Program Trading (GB) proved best in the $500,000 United Nations (G2) under jockey Flavien Prat, winning by 2¾ lengths over Uncle’s Gold. Trained by Chad Brown, the son of Lope De Vega completed the 1⅜- mile turf contest in 2:19.77 and paid $3.80 as the 4-5 favorite. Saturday’s victory marked the second consecutive […]

Flying P Stable’s Ole Crazy Bone set the pace and narrowly repelled the challenge from Fort George to win Saturday’s Grade 2, $250,000 Bowling Green presented by Emerald Ecovations, a 1 3/8-mile inner turf route for older horses, at Saratoga Race Course. Bred in Kentucky by Adena Springs and sold by Hidden Brook Farm as […]

Odds-on favorite Program Trading ranged up outside on the backstretch, bid three wide on the far turn and kicked clear in the lane for a two-length win Saturday in the listed, $125,000 Monmouth Stakes at Monmouth Park. Flavien Prat rode the winner for trainer Chad Brown in the 18th running of the 1 1/8-mile turf […]

Neat pushed his career earnings to $999,110 on the last Saturday in May when he battled for a neck win over Cosmic Year in the $100,000 Cliff Hanger. It was another 1 1/2 lengths back in third to Sand Pipes. Neat had two horses beat early and was situated along the rail as There Are […]

Hidden Brook Farm offers a half dozen promising juveniles at this year’s Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May Two-Year-Old in Training Sale. The group includes a filly by Vekoma, a filly from the first crop by the fast Grade 1 winner Drain the Clock, already the sire of the exciting debut winner Dream Quest, and a colt by […]

Trainer Phil D’Amato knew he was getting a nice horse when Maximum Bourbon walked into his barn less than six weeks ago, after being purchased in a digital auction. Just how good? “Did we think he was going to do this? I don’t know,” D’Amato said after Maximum Bourbon, in his first start for the […]