Point of Entry’s first stakes scorer caps breakout week for freshman
Breeding and Sales
As a long-distance turf star, Point of Entry wouldn’t be expected to rack up the winners as a freshman sire, particularly at this point in the season. So it’s a very encouraging sign for the [...]
Paulassilverlining hoping for better outcome in Honorable Miss
Racing News
After eking out victories in two springtime Grade 1s, Paulassilverlining will look for better luck than she had last year in Saratoga’s two graded stakes for older filly-and-mare sprinters. The first of these is Wednesday’s [...]
Features
San Diego a cautionary tale for high-stakes/low-return plungers
Arrogate appeared unbeatable entering Saturday’s San Diego H. (G2) but similar to the tortoise beating the hare, the fastest runner didn’t win. The unexpected happens in sports, favorites can have an off day, and the [...]
Features
Legacy of Drumtop lives on early in Saratoga meet
The victory by Proctor’s Ledge in last Friday’s Lake George (G3) at Saratoga finally gave me a reason to dig deeper on a particular horse that I’ve been meaning to for years but had never got [...]
Racing News
Tiz a Slam favored against six in the Prince of Wales
Tiz a Slam was second best to favored filly Holy Helena in the Queen’s Plate earlier this month, but looks the horse to beat in the second jewel of Canada’s Triple Crown, the C$500,000 Prince [...]
chimino:
feel sorry for all the backers , that think , the worst he can do is show. 1,3+ mill.
Charlie Kelley:
Immediately after the race, Baffert should have said, We're disappointed. We thought we had him ready. At this point…
jay:
Maybe he had a toothache.