Upset bug hits weekend racing from Japan to France as big names like Beholder, Flintshire, Postponed, Runhappy, Wavell Avenue and Big Arthur go to defeat ... BUT ... California Chrome romps again.
Kyle Surgo, who suffers from Glycosylation, had a memorable night meeting Wiggle It Jiggleit and the pacer’s team at Dayton. by Bob Roberts The city of Toledo, as well as northwest Ohio, lost its harness track in the fall of 2013 when Raceway Park drove its mobile starting gate and its racing license to a …
Defeating the multiple Eclipse Award-winning Beholder for the second time this season, Hronis Racing's Stellar Wind won Saturday's Grade 1 Zenyatta Stakes by a neck over the champion, snapping the mare's three-year win-streak in this race. Under Victor Espinoza, who'd just ridden California Chrome to victory two races earlier, Stellar Wind helped press the pace …
Superstar mare Winx was crowned the 2016 Australian Racehorse of the Year during a ceremony held in Sydney Sept. 29. The 5-year-old daughter of Street Cry captured 59 of a possible 60 votes to claim the title, with votes coming from a group that included national media and racing administrators. Her biggest win of the year came in the $3 …
California Chrome, Beholder, Flintshire, Runhappy all in racing action this weekend plus the Arc in France, the Sprinters Stakes in Japan and the Moir in Australia
Steven Wolf, a native of Flemington, has been named to the Harness Racing Hall of Fame. For much of the late 20th century, Wolf was a publicist for several tracks in the immediate area of his native New Jersey (Freehold Raceway, Brandywine Raceway and Liberty Bell Park) and for the Standardbred Breeders and Owners Association of New Jersey (SBOANJ) before relocating to Pompano Park in South Florida, where he rose through the ranks to become senior director of racing operations. Wolf also served on the Board, including as president, of the Harness Horse Youth Foundation (HHYF). He later started his own consulting agency. Wolf entered the communications end of the Standardbred racing industry in 1979. Among his many achievements, he served as president of U.S. Harness Writers Association (USHWA) and won that organization's Member of the Year award and is the only person to have earned that distinction, twice. Currently, he serves as the Florida USHWA chapter's president. Wolf also won the Harness Publicists Association's Allen J. Finkelson Golden Pen Award fJr outstanding lifetime achievement in promoting harness racing. Another of his honors is winner of the Clyde Hirt Media Award presented by Harness Horsemen's International (HHI). He als
For the second night in a row, live racing at Meadowlands in East Rutherford, N.J., was cancelled Saturday, Oct. 1, as a result of rain in the New York metropolitan area.
According to the records at The Jockey Club, Grade 1 Florida Derby victor Materiality has been reported as deceased. The 4-year-old colt by Afleet Alex had been battling laminitis for the past year, treated by Dr. Scott Morrison, an equine podiatrist at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital. Bred by John Gunther in Kentucky, Materiality was …
Hidden Lake, the 1997 Eclipse Award winner for champion older female, was euthanized Thursday morning at Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement Farm in Georgetown, where she had been pensioned since 2009. The daughter of Quiet American was 23. Michael Blowen, founder and president of Old Friends, attributed her death to infirmities of old age. Owned and …
Jockey Dennis Collins underwent surgery on Monday at the University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque, N.M., to stabilize his spine, one day after suffering severe injuries during a spill on the closing day of the State Fair at the Downs Racetrack and Casino. Collins, 53, was aboard Smiling Reuben in the third race of …
Paul Pompa's Connect, winner of the listed Curlin Stakes named for his sire two starts back at Saratoga, sprang the upset at odds of 10-1 in Saturday's Grade 2 Pennsylvania Derby at Parx Racing, defeating Gun Runner by a half-length on the wire. Cleverly ridden by Javier Castellano, the sophomore Chad Brown trainee saved ground …
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