Vinnie Viola's St Elias Stable will have high expectations heading into Thursday's July 4 card at Belmont, as it unveils a coupled entry of 2-year-olds who cost a combined $900,000 at last year's Keeneland September Sale in the day's fifth event. The first half of the pairing, trained by Todd Pletcher, is $400,000 KEESEP grad [...]

A high-percentage trainer who holds his own at some of the most competitive meets in America, Tom Amoss is nevertheless known mainly for his work with blue-collar claiming types, not the precocious juveniles and sophomores that get racing fans excited for the future. That perception likely changed some with a GI Kentucky Oaks victory this [...]

Rupp Racing's late-running Owendale (Into Mischief), who missed second by a whisker while running on the deeper part of the track in the GI Preakness S., appears to have a tactical advantage and will try to mow them all down as the morning-line favorite in Saturday's GIII Ohio Derby at Thistledown. Pulling off a 12-1 [...]

Marylou Whitney has seen just about everything there is to see in the world of Thoroughbred racing. Norm Casse has seen plenty too as the right-hand man to his father Mark, but what he hadn't seen until late Saturday night was a stakes win under his own name. A sophomore filly named Hard Legacy (Hard [...]

Ralph and Lauren Evans' dual Grade I winner and 'TDN Rising Star' Diversify (Bellamy Road) has been retired from racing after suffering a suspensory injury following a breeze Saturday at Belmont, trainer Jonathan Thomas confirmed to TDN Sunday. The story was first reported by Daily Racing Form. “This morning following his breeze yesterday we found [...]

The first two finishers in the May 11 GIII Beaugay S. at Belmont, led by the extremely promising winner Homerique (Exchange Rate), will re-engage and stretch out to 1 1/4 miles in Friday's GII New York S. at Big Sandy. An impressive debut winner at Chantilly last spring, Peter Brant's Homerique was third, beaten just [...]

There were few more exciting horses last summer than Hronis Racing's Catalina Cruiser (Union Rags), but after going four-for-four to start his career, the chestnut went up in flames at odds-on in the GI Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile. He'll make his much-anticipated return and debut as 5-year-old in Friday's GII True North S. at Belmont. [...]

Three fillies from the Chad Brown barn appear to hold most of the cards in Thursday's seven-furlong GIII Intercontinental S. at Belmont. Favored on the morning line is Stephanie Seymour Brant's Significant Form (Creative Cause). A dominant winner of the Memories of Silver S. last spring at Aqueduct in her 3-year-old debut, the $575,000 OBS [...]

On a weekend that featured a 65-1 winner of the GI Kentucky Derby, the most shocking result may have in fact come in a Friday undercard race at Churchill Downs, when the seemingly invincible Newspaperofrecord (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) was beaten on the square in the GIII Edgewood S. It was the first defeat [...]

Five of the eight horses in Saturday's GIII Pennine Ridge S. at Belmont are either stakes winners or stakes placed, but it's possible that two of the other three will be the public's top two choices, as a pair of British-born, Chad Brown-trained 'TDN Rising Stars' try to take center stage. Drawing the rail, a [...]

Len Green's A Thread of Blue (Hard Spun) shook off his pursuers and led to deep stretch of the GII American Turf S. last out before just getting run down late. Saturday at Penn National, the dark bay cuts back a crucial sixteenth of a mile and heads a competitive field of nine in the [...]

BALTIMORE, MD–Two weeks ago at Churchill Downs, Gary Barber's War of Will (War Front) drew the rail and rode that fence all the way into menacing contention on the waning strides of the far turn run. But when jockey Tyler Gaffalione tried to find a seam to let his horse run to GI Kentucky Derby [...]