Button Down Racing is currently forming BDR-10 to purchase a 2-Y-O-in-training at either the Ocala April sale or the Fasig-Tipton Timonium sale in May. The budget for the colt or filly is $50,000 (more or less) and the initial investment of $3875 for a five percent share includes all sales-related expenses plus normal training, boarding [...]
Hollywood Park, in Inglewood, California is in imminent danger of being closed. Development and the mighty dollar is going to win if the people themselves don’t make their voices heard. See this Los Angeles Times Article. There are two websites dedicated to the cause of saving Hollywood Park: Save Hollywood Park.com and their Info and [...]
Prime Equine Racing is currently forming a claiming partnership to claim a horse from Turfway Park in Florence, Kentucky. The horse which they plan on claiming has already been chosen. This horse will be taken to Suffolk Downs in East Boston, Massachusetts to race through the end of the spring, summer, and fall. This horse [...]
Macho Again, ridden by Robby Albarado, won the prestigeous Grade 2 New Orlean Handicap at the Fair Grounds for West Point Thoroughbreds yesterday. The four year old colt rallied six wide around the turn and ran on with a lot of determination to win by a length. Macho Again is a Florida bred by Macho [...]
Sun Button, a three-year-old son of Full Mandate, broke his maiden on Wednesday, March 11 at Turfway Park, cruising home a length in front of his nearest rival, Trip North, in the six-and-a-half furlong, $30,000 maiden race. Breaking from the inside post and wearing the colors of Button Down Racing, jockey Billy Troilo kept his [...]
I’m excited to announce the addition of the Partners In Thoroughbreds Forum to our community. A link has been added at the far right of our top navigation bar, otherwise, to access the forum directly just go to: http://forum.partnersinthoroughbreds.com. Guests are welcome to visit and read without actually registering, but you will need to register [...]
United Thoroughbreds is a newly developed partnership company based in Toronto, Canada. Forming partnerships out of Woodbine, they currently have 7 shares remaining in their two year old filly by Where’s the Ring. United Thoroughbreds tell me they are committed to bringing “new” owners into the sport of kings, at a reasonable cost. Through their [...]
Blue Exit, who was runner-up to Cowboy Cal in the Grade 2 Strub Stakes at Santa Anita on February 7, was (in my opinion) pick of the paddock before yesterday’s $1 million Santa Anita Handicap. Bet down to 6-1, Blue Exit was pulled up by jockey Robby Albarado on the turn for home. He had [...]
Yet another progeny of the stallion Unusual Heat scored a nice win at Santa Anita for Class Racing Stable yesterday (Saturday). Apoplectic, a dark bay or brown gelding by Unusual Heat, out of the Native Prospector mare Laguna Sunrise, relished the downhill turf track and won by 1¾ lengths. The gelding was bred by Madeline [...]
Derby fever is beginning to hit one brand new partnership—the owners of an exciting gray colt named The Pamplemousse, owned in part by Alex Solis II, the son of the rider. Other owners, along with Solis II, are Carol Bienstock and Ann Winner of Encino, as well as William Strauss of Del Mar, whose brother, Jeff, [...]
