Jason Jocher, the owner of Power Hour Racing, has filed a protest with the California Horse Racing Board after his horse, Airfoil (Bernardini), finished second in a conditioned $10,000 claiming race Sunday at Santa Anita. The story was first reported by Blood-Horse. Entries in the sixth race were supposed to be restricted to trainers with [...]

Dale Romans holds a potentially loaded hand heading into the prep season for the GI Kentucky Derby, one that includes four stakes winners or stakes placed runners, all readying to make their sophomore bows in the next month or so. The first of the foursome to run in 2018 will be Albaugh Family Stable and Brereton [...]

Chuck Fipke likes to challenge himself. That's why he became a geologist. That's why he sold his stake in Canada's Ekati Diamond Mine, the discovery that made him wealthy, to be able to further explore the rest of the planet. It's also the reason he's coming off of two enormous Grade I victories in three [...]

For as dominant as Sharp Azteca (Freud) has been in his five stakes wins, it seems hard to believe that he's still seeking his first Grade I tally. With three runner-up finishes at the top level since last December, however, that is indeed the case, and he has his work cut out for him looking [...]

Jamyson 'n Ginger (Bernardini), second by a half-length as the favorite in the GII Demoiselle S. over this track as a juvenile, will return to stakes company as the likely favorite in the GIII Go For Wand H. at the Big A Saturday. Second in a Belmont optional claimer June 1, the $280,000 Fasig-Tipton March [...]

The 10-horse GII Remsen S. runs the gamut of entrants, with a dirt graded stakes winner, a turf graded stakes winner and a pair of maidens. That illustrates the wide-open nature of the annual Aqueduct 2-year-old centerpiece, with a variety of second-tier players looking to jump into the upper echelon heading into the new year. [...]

John Servis joined elite company last spring at Churchill Downs when he saddled 'TDN Rising Star' Cathryn Sophia (Street Boss) to a victory in the GI Longines Kentucky Oaks, completing the GI Kentucky Derby/Oaks career double after his score with Smarty Jones (Elusive Quality) in 2004. In Saturday's GII Demoiselle S. at Aqueduct, Servis starts [...]

As impressive as 'TDN Rising Star' Rushing Fall (More Than Ready) looked in capturing her debut Sept. 16 at Belmont, it was the performance of the runner-up next out that really built up her stature. Now that Rushing Fall went on to annex the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, that in turn makes the [...]

One has steadily gotten better all year, one appeared unlikely to meet expectations before a surface switch, and both will seek their first Grade I victory in Saturday's Hollywood Derby at Del Mar. Red Baron Barn, Rancho Temescal and Mark Glatt's Sharp Samurai (First Samurai), once entered for a $75,000 tag, has won four stakes [...]

In stark contrast to its colt counterpart, a 14-horse war with no obvious favorite, the GII Golden Rod S. Saturday at Churchill has a clear headliner, as Monomoy Stables and Michael Dubb's Monomoy Girl (Tapizar) looks to improve to four-for-four and stamp herself as an early contender for the GI Kentucky Oaks. Rallying powerfully from [...]

A field of 14, all with considerable intrigue, will contest the GII Kentucky Jockey Club S. Saturday evening under the Twin Spires, with all of them looking to take their first step toward a return to Louisville on the first Saturday in May. Two 'TDN Rising Stars' will each try to go three-for-three to start [...]

Coming of age in Hot Springs, Arkansas, the home of Oaklawn Park, it's difficult to avoid horse racing in the winter and spring. It's even harder when your family owns a parking lot across the street from the track. That's where Staton Flurry, the 27-year-old owner of Flurry Racing Stables LLC, was introduced to the [...]