Horse Racing News
Posted 4/9/11 3:20 PM by Dave Litfin
Toby's Corner split horses inside the eighth pole and outfinished 20-1 Arthur's Tale to win the $1,000,000 Wood Memorial by a neck, as 1-9 favorite Uncle Mo faded late to wind up third after setting the pace.
Posted 4/9/11 3:09 PM by Marty McGee
Lilacs and Lace rebounded from a 12-length defeat in a lesser race just two weeks beforehand to stun some of the best 3-year-old fillies in North America with a 48-1 upset Saturday in the 74th running of the Grade 1, $400,000 Ashland Stakes at Keeneland.
Morning Line, who was denied in a heartbreaker in the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile last November, broke through with his first top-level victory in Saturday's Grade 1, $250,000 Carter Handicap at Aqueduct.
Posted 4/9/11 2:45 PM by Jack Shinar
Upstart Separate Forest opened a substantial lead in her stakes debut and refused to give way to heavy favorite Unzip Me to win the Grade 3, $100,000 Las Cienegas Stakes by a neck on the hillside turf course at Santa Anita April 9.
Posted 4/9/11 2:30 PM by David Grening
Benefitting from a ground-saving trip and a patient ride from Luis Saez, Hot Summer slid through an opening along the rail in upper stretch and drew off to a victory in Saturday's Grade 3, $150,000 Comely Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Aqueduct.
Posted 4/8/11 7:15 PM by Steve Andersen
Jaycito was withdrawn from Saturday's $1 million Santa Anita Derby on Friday afternoon by trainer Bob Baffert, who said the colt's bruised right front foot had not recovered sufficiently to allow for a start.
Posted 4/8/11 7:15 PM by Steve Andersen
To Honor and Serve, third in both the Fountain of Youth and Florida Derby, is off the Kentucky Derby trail with a strain to the suspensory ligament of his left foreleg, trainer Bill Mott said late Friday afternoon.
Posted 4/8/11 7:14 PM by Steve Andersen
Premier Pegasus, the early morning-line favorite in Saturday's Santa Anita Derby before being sidelined on Thursday because of a hairline fracture in the cannon bone of his left foreleg, underwent surgery to stabilize the injury on Friday.
Posted 4/7/11 2:30 PM by Steve Andersen
Premier Pegasus, the winner of the Grade 2 San Felipe Stakes last month, will miss Saturday's Santa Anita Derby because of a hairline fracture in the cannon bone of his left foreleg, according to Maria Ayala, the assistant to owner-trainer Myung Kwon Cho.
Posted 4/7/11 9:10 AM by Jay Privman
The draw for the Santa Anita Derby had just taken place Wednesday morning when trainer Bob Baffert came barreling into the Santa Anita racing office and found out that, only seconds earlier, Jaycito had drawn the far outside post in the field of 11.