Horse Racing News
Posted 3/14/10 12:24 AM by Claire Novak
It is all systems go for Team Zenyatta en route to the April 9 Apple Blossom Invitational at Oaklawn Park, a race the 6-year-old mare won in 2008 and has been pointing toward since the beginning of the year.
Posted 3/14/10 12:10 AM by Steve Andersen
Life Is Sweet, the winner of the Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic at Santa Anita last November, was retired on Saturday after suffering muscle cramps following a workout at Hollywood Park, owner Marty Wygod and trainer John Shirreffs said.
Posted 3/13/10 8:49 PM by Mike Welsch
At the quarter pole, Odysseus appeared to have no chance to win Saturday's $300,000 Tampa Bay Derby. Even at the wire, it looked like his frantic final surge had fallen short of catching Schoolyard Dreams.
Posted 3/13/10 7:18 PM by Marcus Hersh
With the racing world looking forward to an April 9 matchup between Rachel Alexandra and the John Shirreffs-trained Zenyatta in the Apple Blossom, Rachel Alexandra failed to handle the Shirreffs "B" Team on Saturday at Fair Grounds.
Posted 3/13/10 7:05 PM by Jay Privman
Zenyatta kept up her end of the bargain, weaving through traffic to capture her 15th straight victory in the Grade 1, $250,000 Santa Margarita Invitational Handicap on Saturday at Santa Anita.
Posted 3/12/10 8:28 PM by Alan Shuback
Gitano Hernando is looking good for his March 27 date in the Dubai World Cup, trainer Marco Botti reported on his website on Friday. The Newmarket-based Botti was upbeat about the preparations of his recent Winter Derby Trial winner.
Posted 3/12/10 8:27 PM by Alan Shuback
John Velazquez has picked himself up a Dubai World Cup ride in the shape of Crowded House.
Posted 3/12/10 8:24 PM by Marty McGee
Trainer Jeffrey Scott Raley has been suspended a year by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission after one of his grooms was found poised to give one of his horses what officials believed to be a syringe of vodka.
Posted 3/12/10 8:20 PM by Matt Hegarty
A deal to open a casino at Aqueduct is dead again.
Posted 3/12/10 8:17 PM by Mike Welsch
She Be Wild is the reigning Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies winner and champion 2-year-old filly, but even her staunchest supporters may have some doubts when she tries dirt for the second time in Saturday's Grade 3 Florida Oaks at Tampa Bay Downs.