Photo credits Coglianese photos, header Lauren King, above Leslie Martin. She won the Christiecat Stakes at Belmont on the dirt and won the Tropical Park Oaks on the turf today. Owned and bred by Alex Campbell Ultra Brat has now won four out of her nine races. Mr. Campbell’s philosophy has been to breed […]
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Irish War Cry Wins Marylander Stakes
Photo by Jim McCue. Running for just the second time, in a Stake against horses who had had a few races under their belts, Irish War Cry was rather more unsettled than his first race, giving Feargal Lynch a hard time keeping him from running off. Fortunately Feargal did a good job. He was […]
Painter’s Rags
Named by Phyllis Wyeth’s husband Jamie, the well known artist. He is of course by Union Rags (yet another winner for the freshman sire). Starting for the first time at Laurel today on a muddy track, Trevor McCarthy rode him very well as he is a big, green baby. Congratulations to Chadds Ford Stable.
Bethel Wildcat, Happy Christmas And 100 Winners!
Stuart Brown, owner and breeder with his late wife of Bethel Wildcat made the plane trip from Kentucky today and so happy he won for him to give him (and all of us) a Happy Christmas. His plane trip back will fly! Running over a sloppy track for the first time but also running over […]
Party Boat In The Mud
Photo credits Lauren King, Coglianese Photos By Into Mischief out of an Unbridled’s Song mare, there was a good chance Party Boat would handle the off track in her first Stake race as she had run two pretty good races on the dirt before switching to turf which she excelled at. The chance paid off […]
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Already a winner, with a few near misses in between she got her second win today at Tampa on their lovely (I know I say it every year!), grass surface. She went off as the favorite and was given a lovely ride by in form Angel Cruz. Congratulations to owners and breeders Pin Oak Stud.
Matriarch For Miss Temple City
What an incredible filly. Three Grade 1 wins this year, two against the boys and one from post position 12 that only one horse has won from at the Del Mar meet*. I didn’t know the origin of her name until I heard Bob Feld (breeder and owner) and his son Sean speak before the […]
Callingmissbrown Likes Laurel
She won her maiden at Laurel, shipped to Keeneland where she didn’t run great (she doesn’t like to ship far from home!), came back to Maryland and won her allowance today. She was ridden in both of her wins by Larry Mejias who gallops for us in the morning and is a lovely rider. She […]
Double Grades
photos by Benoit Photography Both Journey Home and Ring Weekend won their Graded Stakes at Del Mar this afternoon. Maiden winner Journey Home was very impressive coming from last to first in the Grade III Jimmy Durante and barn favorite Mr People Eater aka Ring Weekend had a good trip for a change (not good […]
Bellows
Congratulations to two of the most patient owners on the planet! Namcook Stable and Paul Braverman seem to have horses who need time off, extra time to mature, etc but the patience with Bellows paid off today at Laurel. Bellows has actually been one of the straight forward ones who has run promisingly a couple […]