Button Dancer
Four-year-old filly Button Dancer, ridden by John McKee, had enough left in the stretch to get through a timely hole and pull away to win the seventh race at Presque Isle Downs on Thursday, Aug. 27. In her last outing, she had captured a maiden race at Ellis Park by eight lengths.
Breaking from the [...]
Raise An Heiress
Raise an Heiress, a now 25 year old mare by Raise a Native-Mellow Marsh, by *Seaneen, won 2 races and $23,850, but once sold for $650,000 as a broodmare in the Gene Klein dispersal. Harris Farms later purchased her at Keeneland November Sales for $15,000 in foal. For Harris Farms her foals included [...]
SEA THE STARS confirmed his place as the world’s highest rated racehorse when he won the Group One Juddmonte International Stakes on the first day of the York Ebor Festival meeting, beating the Aidan O’Brien trained Mastercraftsman by a length.
Winner of the 2000 Guineas, the Derby and the Coral Eclipse, it was the fourth [...]
Benchmark Yearling Filly
Horseplayers Racing Club, LLC, purchased this good looking California-bred yearling filly at the CTBA sale and we got a steal. She’s by grade II stakes winner of $636,707 Benchmark, one of California’s leading sires. He’s sired 14 stakes winners, including millionaires Brother Derek and Idiot Proof. The filly is out of Creole Delights, [...]
The racing partnerships associated with Class Racing Stables have a number of upcoming runners over the next ten days: 4 at Del Mar and one at Ruidoso Downs.
On Friday August 21st, Subpoena the Dress runs in an allowance race Del Mar
On Saturday August 22nd, Infernal runs in an allowance, Del Mar
On Sunday August 23rd, [...]
Banjo Gold raced in the 7th race last Thursday night at Penn National and showed good improvement from his first race. He finished seventh and was still in a race that had been run with quick fractions going 22:00 for the ¼ and 45:00 for the ½. He showed clearly that he needs more [...]
Traingat the Bar
Horseplayers Racing Club, LLC, celebrated Trainingat the Bar’s return to racing after more than a year off with a resounding 8 length win in the slop at Emerald Downs recently. The four-year-old Cal-bred filly has overcome a few setbacks and won for the 4th time in 7 starts. For more information [...]
Seattle Slew died on May 7, 2002 at the age of 28. One of only 11 winners of horse racing’s prestigious ‘Triple Crown’ he is by default considered among the all time greats in thoroughbred racing. Of the eleven horses to win the Triple Crown, he is the only one to do so [...]
Grevelis Racing Stable LLC reports that they have been offered the opportunity to buy into a 2-year old Kentucky-bred filly for sale privately in Northern California. What’s nice, they tell me, is that they do not have to buy all of her as she is being sold in 10% increments up to 70%.
Her name [...]
Unusual Heat
Madeline Auerbach, the California-based race horse owner who has made her mark with homebreds sired by leading California stallion
