Prime Equine Racing, T. Kurguz & J. Ricciardi’s Keen Lassie pumped it up a notch this past Tuesday, working in company with another Ron Dandy trainee, covering seven eighths of a mile in 1:32 flat over a muddy track. Once again, jockey Josiah Hampshire, Jr. was her pilot. Managing partner, Renee Lee Doyle, was both [...]
Lunch Money, a nice looking bay or brown three year old Decarchy filly out of a Private Terms mare, broke her maiden nicely for an Owners Stable partnership and trainer Mike Puype at Santa Anita on Friday afternoon. After breaking a little slowly, she arrived in the stretch three deep. She first drifted out, then [...]
Jeff Metz Racing Stable had an especially successful weekend and missed a trifecta by a neck. Wild Women Again scored a going away victory for Connie and Harold Harrison. Respecttheofficer tracked and pounced on the field for a 2 length allowance score, and Steve and Melinda’s Winning Vow closed the fastest of all, unfortunately missing [...]
I found a very interesting website the other day, devoted to female jockeys: FemaleJockeys.com. It contains interviews with hundreds of jockeys as well as some fascinating links, a great news section and a forum. I spent quite a long time exploring and reading and I shall have to return. Some of the interviews are great [...]
Horseplayers Racing Club, LLC’s, Wild Hunter broke his maiden against Special Weight company at Will Rogers on Saturday. Going off as the 3-2 favorite in the mile event, Hunter made the early lead through a fast, pressured pace, got hooked at the 3/8ths pole and prevailed in a long duel to win the photo by [...]
Press Release From Santa Anita The Pamplemousse, 9-5 morning line favorite for today’s Santa Anita Derby, was declared a stakes scratch shortly after 10 a.m. Saturday. “Dr. (Jill) Bailey (D.V.M. representing the Los Angeles Turf Club), during her pre-race examination, identified an issue that she brought to the attention of (trainer) Julio (Canani),” explained Dr. [...]
The Pamplemousse, the “Racing Partnerships” horse of the moment, is morning-line favorite for today’s Grade I Santa Anita Derby, the West Coast’s major prep for the Kentucky Derby. He arrives at the 9 furlong Santa Anita Derby having won his last three starts, including a bedazzling wire-to-wire victory over the same distance in last month’s [...]
Contributed by Josh Bauman, Karakorum Racing Sometimes I’ll stop in the paddock at the track to see one of our trainers to catch up on the stable news, rather than dropping by the barn in the morning. On one such occasion, I was talking to Linda Rice just before C.C. Lopez was to ride for [...]
Hard Bill, Little Red Feather’s Chilean import, and record holder for 7.5 furlongs is entered to run at Santa Anita in an allowance race on Saturday April 4th. Hard Bill had seven wins and a second in eight lifetime starts in Chile and his explosive style should suit the synthetic tracks in California.
Prime Equine Racing’s highly touted two year old colt, White Thunder, worked his first eighth of a mile at Cardinal Training Center, home of Quiet Woman Farm South, last Friday in 12.2 seconds. “He is moving right along in the program successfully”, stated Joe Deleney, manager of Quiet Woman Farm South. “He enjoys his work [...]
