Mrs. Hope Jones’s Party Boat is now two for two on the turf and quite impressive she was yesterday at Keeneland. Trevor McCarthy traveled from Maryland to ride and she swept by the field to win by two lengths. Hope usually breeds her own horses but she splashed out at the Keeneland yearling sale last […]
Month: October 2016
Head Games
Perseverance is the key! After nine previous tries, five with her previous trainer and four with us, Head Games made it to the winners circle on her tenth try. It’s not that she’s ran badly in her last few races, she just found one or two ahead of her at the wire! Kudos too to […]
Quidura Wins Valley View Stakes
Quidura (GB), owned and bred by Gestut Faerhof from Germany had won one race in that country before coming here in July. She won her first allowance race at Belmont rather nicely so the next step was a Graded Stake. The Pin Oak Valley View (Grade 3) is always a nice race to win not […]
Bethel Wildcat
It was an emotional win yesterday I’m sure for Dr. Stuart Brown when his homebred Bethel Wildcat won his very first race, at his home track of Keeneland no less. He’s named after his favorite basketball team the Kentucky Wildcats and he and his late wife bred him. Congratulations. Discreet Cat Colt Speedy In Keeneland […]
Ascend Wins Fourth Race
Ascend has now won half of his races this year which brings his tally to four. He is four years old now and although he ran consistently at three (he didn’t run as a two year old), he has really come into his own this year. The win was at Keeneland where he won in […]
Irish Strait By Eight
Actually it was eight and a half lengths he won by. It was the first time he’d run on dirt as the turf race at Park was ‘off the turf’ so it was unknown how he would handle it. Obviously he handled it well, notched his fourth win and congratulations to owner and breeder Isabelle […]
Revelation
Another story of total patience by everyone. A big horse by Bellamy Road he ran once as a two year old and twice as a three year old. He had various problems, mostly due to his size, but he’s back and ran last night for the first time as a four year old and won […]
Miss Ella Grade III
Gorgeous, sweet Miss Ella, the first foal of gorgeous, sweet Sweet Tune (I know I’ve mentioned that before!) won her first Graded Stakes today, the Grade III Buffalo Trace at Keeneland. She was a little far back but made her move before the turn and went for home in the stretch, thankfully holding off the […]
Hayabusa One
Having run just three times previously in France before coming to the US, Hayabusa One won his first race over here in style. This gorgeous looking colt, also with a very kind temperament, by Siyouni who won the Grand Criterium as a three year old in France, he made it look rather easy although it […]
Beat the boys, beat the boys
photo credit Matt Woolley/Equiphoto Those words must be foremost in Miss Temple City’s mind as she did it in the spring in the Makers 46 Mile (Grade 1) at Keeneland and again in today’s Shadwell Mile (Grade 1) at Keeneland. She likes the mile, she likes Keeneland and she like to beat the boys! Congratulations […]