HORSE RACING NEWS
05/21/2015
Friday’s Rainbow 6 Mandatory Payout Offers $350,000 Guaranteed Pool
The Popular multi-race wager went unsolved for the 16th straight racing day Thursday, when no one had all six winners and bettors with five of six winners were paid $1,835.22. There were four ‘live’ tickets going into the last leg of Thursday’s Rain
05/21/2015
American Pharoah Returns to Track; Jogged at Churchill Downs
Following four days of rest, Zayat Stables' American Pharoah, trained by Hall of Famer Bob Baffert, went to the track with regular morning partner Jorge Alvarez at 6:45 a.m. and jogged once around the one-mile oval. "He looked very good, I couldn't be hap
05/21/2015
Belmont Park Notes 5/21
Frosted joins a plethora of horses likely for the Belmont who finished behind American Pharoah in the Kentucky Derby and then skipped the Preakness. Others probable for the Belmont exiting the Derby are Materiality (sixth), Keen Ice (seventh), Mubtaahij (
05/20/2015
National Museum of Racing Pillars of the Turf
Vanderbilt and Whitney will be inducted into the Hall of Fame along with the racehorses Billy Kelly, Lava Man and Xtra Heat; jockeys Chris Antley and Vincent Powers; and trainer King Leatherbury on Friday, Aug. 7. The ceremony will be held at the Fasig-Ti
05/16/2015
Celestine gets up in time for Wait A While win
"She's just a lovely filly, a beautiful filly," said winning trainer Bill Mott. "She does everything right. She's pretty and she's fast. She came to us in very good shape. Mr. Kaplan had her down in Florida and he stays in Florida and I was the lucky reci
05/16/2015
PREAKNESS STAKES QUOTES
Winning jockey Victor Espinoza (American Pharoah): “I was freezing. I was just so wet. It worked out well. I had to bounce out of the gate to take the lead with all the rain. (On race strategy): “All changed with the rain, but it worked out well. â€
05/16/2015
BLACK-EYED SUSAN QUOTES
Winning Jockey Javier Castellano (Keen Pauline): “You have to take advantage when anything happens in a race. I didn’t expect to be on the lead. I saw a lot of speed in the race. I thought that Martin Garcia on (Luminance) had the speed and was going
05/16/2015
SAGAMORE RACING PIMLICO SPECIAL QUOTES
Trainer Mary Eppler (Page McKenney, 2nd): “He has a pretty bad cut on his ankle and it’s bleeding pretty badly. We have the vet coming over to the barn now. He’s hit the board in all of his stakes races. I’m very pleased with the way he ran today.
05/15/2015
PREAKNESS NEWS & NOTES - 5.15
Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert sent American Pharoah and his stablemate, Kaleem Shah’s Dortmund, who was third in the Derby, for their morning gallops at 7:15 in preparation for Saturday’s 140th Preakness Stakes (G1). It has been a busy week for Zay
05/14/2015
Preakness News & Notes - 5.14
It was a cool morning with temperatures around 50 degrees when the two colts went to the track. Baffert said it was a good sign that they were on their toes and seemed to be anxious to train. “Dortmund came by first. He was really moving well,†Baffer