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By Richard Rosenblatt A busy weekend of Breeders’ Cup challenge series races already is underway as Santa Anita Park kicked off its fall meet Friday with three…
Sponsored by: 2020 Breeders' Cup Sprint winner Whitmore The defending Champion Sprinter Whitmore has shown no signs of slowing down in his 8-year-old campaign. He will again look to put his ability on display, facing some of the top sprinters in the country in Saturday's 37th running of the Grade 1, $350,000 Alfred G. Vanderbilt at Saratoga Race Course. The prestigious six-furlong sprint for 3-year-olds and upward pays homage to the influential owner, breeder and racetrack operator who made a major impact on the North American thoroughbred industry in the 20th century. Whitmore, co-...
Sponsored by: Goin' Good wins the Coronation Cup at Saratoga Race Course. Klein Racing homebred Goin' Good secured her first stakes win with a strong stretch drive under Tyler Gaffalione in Sunday's 10th renewal of the $120,000 Coronation Cup, a 5 1/2-furlong off-the-turf sprint for sophomore fillies at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Trained by Brad Cox, the Congrats bay, out of the graded-stakes placed Broken Vow mare Good Deed, entered off a one-length score in a 5 1/2-furlong turf allowance sprint on June 12 at Churchill Downs. Goin' Good established an outside pa...
Sponsored by: Saturday's Pick 6 will be bolstered by a $54,191 carryover as the multi-race wager went unsolved on Friday at Belmont Park. The $1 Pick 6, implemented at the current 48-day Belmont spring/summer meet, returned $433 to bettors who selected 5-of-6 winners correctly. Friday's Pick 6 sequence kicked off in Race 4 as Bourbon's Hope [No. 1, $11.60] graduated at first asking in a 5 1/2-furlong maiden special weight for New York-bred juveniles. Joel Rosario engineered the winning trip for trainer Charlton Baker. Jose Lezcano captured the next two legs with April Antics [No. 9,...
New York-bred Runaway Rumour stays unbeaten with Wild Applause victory June 26, 2021 Lawrence Goichman’s New York homebred Runaway Rumour pulled an upset to stay undefeated while in the process defeating open company for the first time with a half-length win in Saturday’s $100,000 Wild Applause for 3-year-old fillies. Runaway Rumour overtook five competitors from the outside in the stretch to capture the one-mile contest on Belmont Park’s Widener turf. Runaway Rumour saw jockey Luis Cardenas pick up the mount from Jose Lezcano, and the duo broke from the outermost post and tracked in se...