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08/27/2016

Ketel One King’s Bishop (G1) Quotes

"If you watch his last couple of races, they were pretty incredible at Santa Anita, pretty fast. He'd been working really well. He's been working with American Freedom and they went heads-up, just cruising together, so that's a good sign for American Free

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08/27/2016

Priority One Jets (G1) Forego Quotes

"I did [have confidence in him with a race over the track] and also that he won the two stakes this year already going seven-eighths. That is always an edge. Obviously, the horse was very fit. Six furlongs or seven-eighths, there isn't that much more diff

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08/27/2016

Longines Sword Dancer (G1) Quotes

Javier Castellano, winning jockey aboard Flintshire (No. 6): "I am very lucky and fortunate. The way I rode this horse [I tried] to save some ground. Everyone ended up in the same position and I had to make my own decision and use my best judgment and it

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08/27/2016

Travers (G1) Quotes

Steve Asmussen, trainer of third-place finisher Gun Runner (No. 14) and seventh-place finisher Creator: "We ran into a freak today, who ran the fastest Travers in [1:59.36]. I honestly thought [2:02] would win the race. I think that's about right where we

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08/26/2016

Fever knocks Majesto out of Grade 1 Travers

"Majesto will be a scratch for the Travers Stakes because he had a fever this morning," Giardinella said. "He had some tests this morning and they did not come back good. Yesterday, he was good. This morning he coughed and we called the doctor and he came

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08/26/2016

Saratoga Race Course Notes, Friday, August 26

Indeed, the Curlin colt has posted his three Grade 1 victories - the Santa Anita Derby, Preakness, and Haskell - all on off-going and is 4-for-4 overall on sealed tracks, plus a runner-up finish in a muddy rendering of the Grade 1 Breeders' Futurity last

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08/26/2016

Funny Cide Quotes

"As fast as he's going he's doing it in a pretty relaxed fashion. Even though he was rolling along, he was doing it within himself and had his ears pricked and felt comfortable and we weren't going to take away what comes easy." On possibly starting in th

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08/25/2016

New York Turf Writers Cup (G1 Steeplechase) Quotes

Gustav Dahl, winning jockey of Portrade (No. 5): "The idea was to have an easy pace. He likes to be on the front end and settles away once he can't hear pressure behind him. That's why he wears the ho

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08/25/2016

Saratoga Race Course Notes, Thursday, August 25

"It's a little quieter," said Jimmy Barnes, Baffert's top assistant. "But that's to be expected, I guess." Even without American Pharoah, Baffert still comes into the 147th edition of the Grade 1, $1.25 million Travers presented by NYRA Bets with his 'A-t

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08/25/2016

Chantal Sutherland Named to Ride in Sunday’s Added Elegance

“She’s coming in just to ride in that stake on Sunday. She knows the owner real well and he asked her to come out there and ride that one for him,” Sutherland’s agent Tommy Ball said by phone from Del Mar. “Here at Del Mar, a horse that was going to run t

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