Photo by Jim McCue/Maryland Jockey Club What a Sunday afternoon it was! Rory McIlroy won his second consecutive Masters tournament (yes, there are some serious golf enthusiasts among our tribe) and Herringswell won three races! SASSARI got the party started for us, winning the first race on the Laurel Park card. The 1 1/16 mile […]
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Heading to the Winner’s Circle
Keeneland wins are special. Keeneland Opening Day wins are even more so. Getting one today with a homebred for Antony Beck’s Gainesway Stable really pushed it over the top. HEADING, a 3-year-old colt by Starspangledbanner (AUS) out of Celtic Sea (SAf), by Captain Al (SAf), was making just his second start in the U.S. after […]
Kravitz Flies Away in Maiden Breaker
Photo by Adam Coglianese It was another score for the team at Gulfstream Park today as KRAVITZ earned his first tick in the win column. Second in his last start at Tampa Bay Downs on February 15, the two-week turnaround suited him in today’s 1 1/8 mile maiden special weight on the turf. Jorge Ruiz […]
Pleasure Cruise
Photo by Adam Coglianese CRUISE THE NILE likes Gulfstream Park. He left no doubt about it this afternoon racking up his third consecutive win at the Hallandale, Florida track on stakes-laden Coolmore Fountain of Youth-G2 day. Hope Jones’ New Jersey homebred made his first start at Laurel Park on last November 22, finishing fourth. Shipped […]
Vronti (GB) Breaks Maiden at Tampa
VRONTI (GB) earned her first win in her second start here in North America on February 25. She came to us last October after four career outings in Great Britain. She debuted at Ffos Las Racecourse in Wales last July 9. Finishing 4th in that maiden weight for age, she made three subsequent starts at […]
Tok Tok Scores at Tampa Bay Downs
Wertheimer & Frere homebred TOK TOK earned a win for the Tampa Bay Downs squad on Friday in an 8 1/2 furlong claiming race on the turf. Jockey Charlie Marquez, who got his start in pony races here in Maryland, was aboard. “Tok Tok saved ground early on mid-pack and came four-wide on the turn […]
Looks Like Team Spirit
Palm Meadows Training Center is proud of its community – as well they should be. Some big, important wins by their winter residents, which is typical. It’s the ideal place to train; horses – and their people! – thrive in the South Florida sun. (Please send some of that home to Fair Hill….we could seriously […]
Bless Her All Heart In First Win
Photo by Lauren King/Coglianese Photos Robert S. Evans’ homebred BLESS HER turned in a heavenly performance in her maiden breaking win at Gulfstream Park today. It was start number three for the 3-year-old daughter of Twirling Candy out of the multiple graded stakes winning Giant’s Causeway mare Irish Mission (ON). Trained during her career by […]
A Well-Deserved Break
Test Score and William Humphrey at Fair Hill “Everybody looks really good,” Motion said. “One Stripe’s a little irritated about being beaten, I think, but they both seem really good.” Amerman Racing’s 4-year-old homebred Test Score, second by less than a length after a troubled trip in the Nov. 29 Hollywood Derby (G1), and jockey […]
Back to Back Wins for Cruise The Nile
Photo by Adam Coglianese Gulfstream Park agrees with Cruise The Nile. He followed up his maiden-breaker there on December 19 with a score in an optional allowance this afternoon, again piloted by Jorge Ruiz who has been aboard for all three starts. Today’s mile and 70 yard route was run on the Tapeta surface. Cruise […]