HORSE RACING NEWS
07/22/2014
Shine Again Quotes
"I think seven-eighths to a mile is really her best distance. Surface doesn't really matter; she's won on three different types of surfaces. She's a really talented filly and she was on her game today. Hopefully we can use this to go to the [Grade 1, $500
07/21/2014
Saratoga Race Course Notes 7/20
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - With an eye on the Grade 1, $1.5 million Whitney on August 2, Palace Malice breezed five furlongs in 1:00.48 seconds with Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez aboard. The two-time Grade 1 winner went in company with unraced 3-year-o
07/21/2014
Lucky Coin Quotes
"He's been breaking really good, which has always been his drawback. These last three or four races, he's been breaking sharp. I think he's just finally getting it all together. He's had a lot of breaks and this and that happen to him. I think we're final
07/21/2014
G1 Coaching Club American Oaks Quotes
"I told [owner] Mike [Repole] that this filly has never trained better than she has here in the last month. She seems to really like Saratoga. She has been training much more powerfully than she did this winter, so we expected a big effort from her." "The
07/21/2014
Stopchargingmaria earns first G1 win in Coaching Club American Oaks
Favored at 6-5 off a neck victory in the Grade 2 Black-Eyed Susan in May at Pimlico, Stopchargingmaria left from post position 1 before threading her way between horses on the first turn to take a comfortable pace-pressing position in third through an ope
07/19/2014
Saratoga Race Course Notes: Saturday, July 19
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Belmont Stakes winner Tonalist, trained by Christophe Clement for Robert Evans, turned in his final work before the Grade 2, $600,000 Jim Dandy on July 26, going five furlongs in 1:01.79 in company with stablemate Life In Shambles
07/18/2014
G3 Schuylerville Quotes
John Velazquez, winning jockey on Fashion Alert (No. 4): "She's definitely very talented. We wish we had a better break and got a better position at the first part. She kind of recuperated right away and got a good position going to the half-mile pole. Fr
07/18/2014
Quotes from Frankie Dettori
"I was in Istanbul Wednesday night, and rode in England last night and slept at the airport. I got a morning flight and I arrived at 11 a.m. [in New York] but they lost my luggage. As you can see I got Rajiv [Maragh's] pants and boots and [Julien] Leparou
07/18/2014
Sir Cat Quotes
"There are a few 3-year-old races left for the year. I guess what we have got to decide is if he'll stretch out beyond a mile. We have to figure out what direction we want to go now." Joel Rosario, winning jockey aboard Tourist (No. 5): "He's a talented h
07/18/2014
Saratoga Race Course Notes: Friday, July 18
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - If trainer Charlie LoPresti had any trepidation about sending two-time Horse of the Year Wise Dan to the Oklahoma turf course to work Friday morning, he didn't show it. In the 7-year-old star's second timed work since undergoing c