Multiple stakes-placed BRAT PACK returned to the winner’s circle at Delaware Park this afternoon in a one mile allowance on the turf. Her best friend Jorge Ruiz, who has been aboard for all but the filly’s debut at Laurel Park last November, had the honor again today. The pair were back in action after a third-place […]
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An Early Summer Storm
Photo by Jim McCue/Maryland Jockey Club Isivunguvungu (SAF). We’re constantly asked a) how to pronounce it and b) what it means. It’s the Zulu word for “storm.” And today at Laurel Park, it meant “winner.” Track announcer Dave Rodman had no trouble with the moniker while calling the race, and jockey Jorge Ruiz very obviously […]
Enjoying a Big Afternoon
ENJOYING got the memo. With the barn on a roll this afternoon, she joined the party by breaking her maiden at Monmouth Park on their Haskell Preview Day. She also gave jockey Paco Lopez his sixth win on the card in the maiden claiming race going a mile on the grass. Today was Enjoying’s fourth […]
Gimme A Nother Graded Stakes Win
Photo by Equi-Photo In her first start as a 6-year-old, GIMME A NOTHER (SAF) left zero doubt that she was razor-sharp off the layoff with a commanding win in the Eatontown Stakes-G3 at Monmouth Park. A multiple Grade 1 winner in her native South Africa, she was coming off a win in her last start, […]
Longhi Goes Back to Back at Laurel Park
Photo by Jim McCue/Maryland Jockey Club LONGHI kicked off a very busy Saturday for Herringswell with a win in an 8 1/2 furlong claiming race on the Laurel Park turf today. It was deja vu all over again, as the 3-year-old son of Caravaggio duplicated his effort in his last start in the same conditions […]
Saratoga Red
Photo by Adam Coglianese/NYRA America’s Day at the Races host Greg Wolf referred to her as “the SPEEDY Roja.” And trainer Tom Amoss, also on the broadcast desk, called her his best bet of the day. She did not disappoint, capturing the Intercontinental Stakes-G2 on the turf at Saratoga on this Belmont Festival Weekend. Out […]
In Support of Exercise Rider Hector Cotto
On Saturday, May 30, a tragic morning training accident at Parx left 26-year-old exercise rider Hector Cotto hospitalized with multiple injuries. From Chelsea Hackbarth of Paulick Report: “A head-on collision during morning training at Parx Racing in Bensalem, Penn., on Saturday, May 30, has left exercise rider Hector Cotto in the hospital with multiple fractures […]
Your Lordship (GB) Reigns in Maiden Breaker
Photo by Jim McCue/Maryland Jockey Club “It was just a matter of time.” Dave Rodman hit the nail on the head at Laurel this afternoon as YOUR LORDSHIP (GB) bounded down the stretch to earn his first career win in a 9-furlong maiden special weight on the turf under Jorge Ruiz. It’s been a patience […]
Zoey Schorsch: Breaking Ground at Goodwood
It’s been a banner Spring for women in Thoroughbred racing. Cherie DeVaux’s landmark victory in Kentucky Derby 152 made her the first female trainer to accomplish the feat and just the second to win a Triple Crown race. The first, Jena Antonucci, won the Belmont Stakes with Arcangelo in 2023. In both cases, their message […]
Turf Star Earns First Stakes Win on Preakness Undercard
Photo by Jim McCue/Maryland Jockey Club Calumet Farm’s TURF STAR chose a big stage for his first stakes win at Laurel Park on Preakness Day in the listed James W. Murphy Stakes, run at one mile on the turf. “Patiently rated down the backstretch” by Jorge Ruiz, Turf Star “raced along the inner rail the […]