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Nine fillies and mares, including Queen’s Plate winner Moira, will vie for top prize in the Grade 1 $750,000 E.P. Taylor Stakes, up from $600,000 last year, part of a stellar stakes-filled Saturday card of racing at Woodbine.
Maddie Mattmiller, agent for Black Type Thoroughbreds, paid $450,000 for a daughter of Connect from the family of champions Caressing and West Coast to record the highest price of Tuesday’s eighth day of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale, which continued to post across-the-board increases.
Here in palestine, it's very small. there's no roads, so when i drive i speed. i feel free. >> anthony: did you find that people underestimated you at first? >> betty: at the beginning, they could maybe make fun of us, but when we got good scores, we win our respect. >> anthony: now they know. >> betty: yeah, well a car doesn't know if you're a woman or a man. >> anthony: yeah. >> betty: a lot of girls want to join us, the speed sisters. but some of the families are very reserved, they don't like their daughters to be between men racing, you know? palestine is a very reserved society. >> antho...
>> betty: yeah. well, a car doesn't know if you're a woman or a man. >> anthony: yeah. >> betty: a lot of girls want to join us, the speed sisters. but some of the families are very reserved, they don't like their daughters to be between men racing, you know? palestine is a very reserved society. >> anthony: so are things getting better, staying the >> betty: you never know what's going to happen in palestine. one day it's good and the other day it's just, you never know, it's a crazy country. >> anthony: the local police would prefer them off the streets for obvious reasons. but the track her...
Racing, it's in my blood. here in palestine, it's very small. there's no roads. so when i drive, i speed. i feel free. >> do you find that people underestimated you at first? >> at the beginning, they could maybe make fun of us. but when we got good scores -- we win their respect. >> now they know? >> yeah. a car doesn't know if you're a woman or a man. a lot of girls want to join us as speed sisters, but some of the families are very reserved. they don't like their daughters to be between men racing, you know. palestine is a very reserved society. >> so are things getting better, staying the ...