Page 27 - Abel Cedillo News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Sponsored by: Irish-bred Going Global and jockey Flavien Prat pose for pictures after winning the Honeymoon Stakes In one of the most impressive performances of the entire 64-day meeting, trainer Phil D'Amato's Irish-bred Going Global split horses turning for home and rocketed to a 4 ¾-length win in Saturday's Grade 3, $100,000 Honeymoon Stakes at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif.  Ridden by Flavien Prat, Going Global got 1 1/8 miles on firm turf in 1:46.37 and registered her fourth consecutive North American stakes win. Taken in-hand out of the gate, Going Global had two horses beat...

Sponsored by: The Chosen Vron wins the Lazaro Barrera Stakes under Umberto Rispoli With Laurel River and I'll Stand Taller duking it out on the front-end, trainer Eric Kruljac's The Chosen Vron flew off the turn for home and marched to an emphatic 3 ½-length win in Saturday's Grade 3, $100,000 Lazaro Barrera Stakes at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif. Ridden for the first time by Umberto Rispoli, the California-bred gelding by Vronsky got 6 ½ furlongs in 1:16.28. In a field of four sophomores, it was readily apparent from the outset that I'll Stand Taller and Juan Hernandez were not ...

Save this story for later. What happened at the Breeders’ Cup World Championships in late 2019 looked like the end of horse racing in California, maybe in America. It was the twelfth and final race of a two-day series, at Santa Anita Park, the storied track near Los Angeles. Sixty-eight thousand people packed the Art Deco grandstand, the apron, the infield, the high-priced suites. The “handle”—the total betting for the day—was a healthy hundred and seventeen million dollars, but thoroughbred racing itself was on life support. Since the beginning of the year, thirty-five horses had d...

Victor Espinoza Tabs Tom Knust As New Agent Sponsored by: Hall of Fame jockey Victor Espinoza Victor Espinoza has hired Tom Knust as his new agent. The Hall of Fame member and three-time Kentucky Derby winner who celebrates his 49 th birthday May 23 parted company last Saturday with Brian Beach after a historic eight-year run. For more than three years, Beach's priority has been maintaining vigilance on his wife Lotta's recovery from an accident on a horse, which in part diminished his time representing Espinoza, who opted for a full-time on-track presence now that he's fully health...

Weekend Lineup Presented By Pimlico: Preakness Headlines Busy Weekend In Maryland Sponsored by: by NTRA | 05.14.2021 | 2:07pm The 146th Grade 1 $1 million Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore on Saturday, the second jewel of Thoroughbred racing's Triple Crown, will be run at 1 3/16 miles. The Preakness is the centerpiece of nine graded stakes races to be run at Old Hilltop on Friday and Saturday. NBC Sports will broadcast the Preakness live, with coverage beginning Saturday at 5 p.m. ET on NBC. Coverage from Pimlico begins today at 5 p.m. ET on NBCSN with the 97th...