Bongo Racing’s Bob Benoit is entered on Sunday June 14, 2009 in the sixth race at Hollywood Park in a 1-1/16M claiming race for 3 year olds and up. He will be ridden by Aeron Gryder. Back on May 31, Bob Benoit finished a good third in a similar race over the shorter distance of [...]
Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert has written a letter to Kentucky Governor, Steve Beshear, state senators and some representatives appealing to them to take seriously the damage occurring to the commonwealth’s signature horse industry. Here is a link to the letter, as provided by The Paulick Report. Incoming search terms:bob baffert racing partnerships
Horseplayers Racing Club, LLC, has re-opened their offering of California-bred two-year-old Danceuponthestars for a short time. This big, strong son of graded stakes winner Momentum has been training sharply for trainer Ed Moger, Jr. “Dance” is by $664,817 winner Momentum, who was last year’s leading freshman sire on the west coast. He’s the first foal [...]
American Classic Thoroughbreds have sent the following update on their racing partnerships: Banjo Gold: Some great news for all the partners on Banjo. He arrived in the middle of last week at Penn National. He has settled in well and just waiting for the weather to cooperate at the track. All of the rain has [...]
Horseplayers Racing Club, LLC, added the stakes horse Huntersrunaway to their stable recently after purchasing a large interest in the horse privately from owner-trainer Danny Pish. Huntersrunaway is a gray three-year-old Texas-bred son of graded stakes winner Hollycombe out of the Runaway Groom mare Runaway Nancy. “Hunter” has blossomed in the past few months and [...]
In their latest meeting, Inglewood Council members were still undecided as to the fate of the Hollywood Park Racetrack. A decision has now been postponed until next week at the earliest, following 6 hours of debate. At this weeks meeting, Jack Van Berg and John Shirreffs were the only people of note who spoke during [...]
Lime Rickey (Lemon Drop Kid) runs Friday in the Grade 3, $100,000 Hill Prince Stakes at Belmont Park. The three-year-old colt breaks from post five in a field of 10 in this one mile turf event. He will be ridden by Javier Castellano and is trained by Frank Alexander. Post time for the race is [...]
I received notification just a short while ago that Gary Stevens is opening a California-based racing stable. The newly-organized Gary Stevens Racing Stable Inc. will have stalls at Santa Anita Race Course in Arcadia, California, and runners will ship from there to various locations across the United States. Hmm … I hope it will prove [...]
Justwhistledixie is scheduled to return to the races in this Saturday’s $300,000 Grade 1 Acorn Stakes at Belmont Park. The race is for three-year-old fillies going a mile on the main track. It will be her first start since her dominant score in the G2 Bonnie Miss on March 27th. ‘Dixie was forced to miss [...]
Jeff Metz Racing is off to a great start at Yavapai. ‘Already Wild’ broke her maiden yesterday in a hard fought race, while ‘Mr Nevermind’ ran 4th on in his race. ‘He Could Go All The Way’ just failed to hold on and finished second on Saturday. Earlier in the week ‘Some Kinda Monster’ finished [...]
