Missy Loves Mambo, a 3 year old bay filly by Peace Rules out of the Kingmambo mare Mambo Mistress, broke her maiden convincingly in just her second career start at Aquaduct yesterday in a 6 furlong maiden special weight. Owned by West Point Thoroughbreds, trained by Kiaran McLaughlin and ridden by Sheldon Russell, the bay [...]
Presto Change O, trained by James Jerkens and ridden by Alan Garcia won the first race at Gulfstream Park yesterday very convincingly. At the break the colt sprinted into the lead an led throughout the race, pulling away to win by 9 lengths at the wire. Presto Change O is a three year old dark [...]
Little Red Feather’s Chilean Star, Hard Bill, is set to debut in the US at Santa Anita on March 7th. LRF announced Sunday February 15, 2009 that the partnership for Hard Bill was officially sold out. We are very excited,” said Managing Partner Billy Koch. “We have some of our oldest investors mixed with some [...]
Button Down Racing’s five-year-old mare, Sea Button, finished fourth in a mile, open claimer at Turfway Park on Feb, 16. The daughter of Sea Of Secrets set the early pace in heer first two-turn race,opening a lead of seven lengths before giving way at the quarter pole to remain winless in her last six starts. [...]
Sea Button Winning the Pollyanna Pixie Stakes She won three of her first four races, including her first outing at Hawthorne Race Course by nine lengths. Three races later she cruised home to capture the Pollyanna Pixie Stakes at Fairmount Park. The future looked bright for Sea Button, the star of Button Down Racing’s thoroughbred [...]
John Shirreffs joined You Tube recently, and he now posts most of the morning workouts at Hollywood Park for his barn. Extremely interesting, and and a really good insight as to what goes on behind the scenes for people contemplating joining a racing partnership. In addition to the trainer’s most current posting, (below) Click Here for [...]
To date, Prime Equine have sold 40% of shares offered in their two year old colt by Wiseman’s Ferry out of Azorean Miss by Pentelicus. Wiseman’s Ferry stands at Dana Point Farm and won from 6 f. to 1 1/8 miles on dirt and turf, in Europe and the U.S. He was the winner of [...]
Little Red Feather’s Six Pack Man Six Pack Man, a cleverly named son of Milwaukee Brew, and trained by Mike Puype, is expected to win for Little Red Feather Racing at Santa Anita this afternoon—Valentine’s Day. Lightly raced so far, Six Pack Man must have been a huge disappointment for his connections—four starts to date [...]
Eddie Logan, Santa Anita Park’s iconic shoe shine attendant, who has been plying his trade at The Great Race Place since December 25, 1934, passed away on the morning of January 31st. He never recovered after suffering a seizure and stroke on January 3, and died at his home in nearby Monrovia. Services for Eddie [...]
Trainer William Buff Bradley and veteran rider Billy Troilo None of three different sets of Button Down Racing partners got their picture taken in the winners circle this weekend at Turfway Park, but the owners of Sun Button got the next best thing as their three-year-old colt out-dueled 15-1 shot Cold Feet to pick up [...]
