Inflamed (Unusual Heat), a 9-year-old mare consigned as Hip 3552 by Paramount Sales, Agent LXI, topped the second and final session of Keeneland November's Book 5 when hammering for $170,000 to Glen Hill Farm Thursday in Lexington. Bought for $28,000 at this sale in 2016 by McCauley Farm/Auerbach, the chestnut is a full-sister to GSW [...]

ARCADIA, CA–Making a sustained blitz on the far turn, Merribelle Stable's Blue Prize (Arg) (Pure Prize) and Joe Bravo took command in midstretch and held off a stout late bid from presumptive champion Midnight Bisou (Midnight Lute) to upset the GI Longines Breeders' Cup Distaff Saturday at Santa Anita. Called the “best filly I ever [...]

ARCADIA, CA–After getting shut out on day one of the World Championships at Santa Anita, Team Europe got on the board in the GI Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf Saturday, as 3-year-old Iridessa (Ire) (Ruler of The World {Ire}) took charge in the final furlong and held off a game Vasilika (Skipshot) to post [...]

ARCADIA, CA–Though his two-time defending champion couldn't complete the three-peat, trainer Peter Miller still asserted his dominance over the GI Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint Saturday at Santa Anita, as hard-knocking 6-year-old mare Belvoir Bay (GB) (Equiano {Fr}) led home a one-two finish for the powerhouse barn while obliterating the five-furlong course record. Coming over from [...]

She had some anxious moments, but favored Covfefe (Into Mischief) ultimately proved superior to her elders and held off a fellow Grade I-winning 3-year-old in the GI Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint to get the World Championships action underway Saturday at Santa Anita. Debuting as a heavy chalk last September at Churchill, the $250,000 [...]

ARCADIA, CA–Sharing (Speightstown), a daughter of GI Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf heroine Shared Account and a 'TDN Rising Star', wrote her own Breeders' Cup legacy Friday at Santa Anita, kicking clear late to upset the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf. Debuting in a turf sprint July 21 at Saratoga, the chestnut navigated [...]

ARCADIA, CA – It didn't take long for superstar freshman sire American Pharoah to get his first Breeders' Cup winner, as Breeze Easy's Four Wheel Drive broke sharply and went all the way in the GII Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint to kick off the action at the weekend's World Championships Friday at Santa Anita. [...]

Argentinian racing has a storied history. As arguably the most racing-obsessed country in South America, it features the Hipodromo de San Isidro, one of the biggest racetracks in the Americas which has attracted crowds up to 100,000 going all the way back to its construction in 1935, and stalwart, high quality breeding programs that have [...]

ARCADIA, CA–Back in the spring of 2017, trainer Gail Cox was approached by Tom Zwiesler, the racing manager for Sam-Son Farm, an outfit she was intimately familiar with going back to her formative years working in the horse business. Less than three years later, the burgeoning partnership will start ascendant gelding El Tormenta (Stormy Atlantic) [...]

Qatar Racing's Hidden Message (Scat Daddy), a stakes winner overseas and Grade I placed in her U.S. debut, will likely go off as a deserving favorite in Saturday's GIII Autumn Miss S. at Santa Anita, but her margin for error is slim, as several other contenders are primed to pounce in a full 12-horse field [...]

Multiple Grade I winner Maximum Security (New Year's Day), knocked off the Breeders' Cup trail by a severe case of colic last month, is scheduled to make his return as a heavy favorite in Saturday's GIII Bold Ruler S. at Belmont as part of a final charge at champion 3-year-old honors. Infamously disqualified from a [...]

Blemished just once in six starts, First Row Partners and Parkland Thoroughbreds' Royal Charlotte (Cairo Prince) will take on a pair of promising undefeated fillies, one of which comes from her own shedrow, in an 11-horse renewal of the GII Lexus Raven Run S. Saturday at Keeneland. Opening her account Mar. 16 with a good-looking [...]