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This weekend, Saturday, December 3, is opening weekend of the Gulfstream Park Championship meet. It is also Claiming Crown weekend and TOBA’s Ownership Seminar. The TOBA Thoroughbred Ownership Seminar includes breakfast at 8 a.m. during morning workouts to begin the conference. Following that, attendees will spend time with industry professionals as they discuss racing business [...]
Kentucky HPBA President Rick Hiles (left) and Churchill Downs Incorporated Executive Director of Racing Mike Ziegler present the donation to TAA representative Ashton Moynihan. (Photo by Coady Photography) From Churchill Downs news release Posted: 11/25/16 Churchill Downs Racetrack and its horsemen presented checks totaling $55,000 to the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance (“TAA”) between races [...]
The 18th running of the $1.1 Claiming Crown, to be hosted by Gulfstream Park for the fifth consecutive year, received 279 nominations for the nine-race event that will highlight the opening of the Championship Meet on Saturday, Dec. 3. "We appreciate the participation of all the horsemen and we're delighted to be hosting this great [...]
Gulfstream Park West's Claiming Crown Preview Day Sunday was to showcase horses who could run Dec 3 on Opening Day of Gulfstream's Championship Meet in the $1.11 million Claiming Crown. One horse who could be tough to beat come Opening Day is Edward Short's Class and Cash, who won the $50,000 Al's Dearly Bred gate-to-wire [...]
Matt Schera’s John Jones cruised to the lead around the far turn, took command at the top of the stretch and, with one light tap from the whip of jockey Luis Garcia, powered down the stretch to his fourth consecutive victory in Sunday’s $60,000 Jewel on Claiming Crown Preview Day at Laurel Park. The 1 [...]
Mark Casse speaks with European media at the Breeders’ Cup Tuesday morning (Photo by Jennie Rees) Trainer Mark Casse has his finest assembly of horses for the Breeders’ Cup this year, even if you didn’t count his champion mare Tepin, the international star who Saturday at Santa Anita Park shoots to repeat [...]
Photo by Coady Photography From Churchill Downs news release Posted: 10/31/ 16 Churchill Downs Racing Club’s Warrior’s Club gave his 200 members a thrill they’ll cherish forever when the 2-year-old son of Warrior’s Reward took the lead shortly after the break and never looked back in winning the inaugural $300,000 Spendthrift [...]
Nyquist, shown winning the 2016 Kentucky Derby, will miss the Breeders' Cup with a 'puffy ankle.' Credit: Coady Photography By Jennie Rees Reigning Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist has been declared out of next Saturday’s $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Santa Anita Park after coming out of his last workout with what trainer [...]
From RTIP news release Posted: 10/27/16 The University of Arizona’s Race Track Industry Program today released the agenda for the 2016 Global Symposium on Racing & Gaming to be held December 5 – 7, 2016 at Ventana Canyon Resort in Tucson, Arizona. Scheduled topics focus on racing’s core products and include: Racing’s Identity Crisis: Who [...]
Kentucky Downs, Ellis Park, the Kentucky HBPA and JockeyTalk360.com are partnering to provide media coverage of the Breeders’ Cup Nov. 4-5 at Santa Anita, with an emphasis on Kentucky-based horses and horsemen competing in racing’s championship weekend. Jennie Rees, the award-winning journalist who was turf writer for The (Louisville) Courier-Journal for 32 years, will write [...]