May 2010

5/25/10 Last updated: 5/24/10 4:25 PM When the wildly popular “Downs After Dark” nighttime racing programs return to Churchill Downs in earnest on June 11, there’ll be a new twist: each of […]

5/25/10 Last updated: 5/24/10 7:10 PM Reigning Horse of the Year RACHEL ALEXANDRA (Medaglia d’Oro) picked up the pace of her training on Monday with a sharp five-furlong workout at Churchill […]

5/25/10 Last updated: 5/24/10 2:39 PM Franny Freud is prepping for the Prioress (EquiSport Photos) Beaumont S. (G2) heroine FRANNY FREUD (Freud) […]

5/24/10 Last updated: 5/23/10 8:56 PM Goldikova is already in razor-sharp form (Harold Roth/Horsephotos.com) Wertheimer and Frere’s homebred champion GOLDIKOVA (Ire) (Anabaa) […]

5/24/10 Last updated: 5/23/10 5:01 PM With trainer Alexis Barba looking on, Kentucky Derby (G1) fourth MAKE MUSIC FOR ME (Bernstein) had his first breeze at Belmont Park Sunday morning, covering […]

5/23/10 Last updated: 5/22/10 8:10 PM Jockey Robby Albarado lifted both stakes at Arlington Park on Saturday. After demonstrating patience aboard Robert Smithen’s BAY TO BAY (Sligo Bay [Ire]) in the […]

5/23/10 Last updated: 5/22/10 7:44 PM Free Fighter earned his second graded win in the Louisville Handicap (Reed Palmer Photography/Churchill Downs) […]

5/23/10 Last updated: 5/22/10 8:11 PM The six-week Pimlico spring meeting ended Saturday with Dale Capuano and Horacio Karamanos winning individual titles for leading trainer and jockey, respectively. The 20-day spring […]

5/23/10 Last updated: 5/22/10 9:19 PM Klein & Lebherz’s SMILING TIGER (Hold That Tiger) garnered his first graded stakes victory with a wire-to-wire score in Saturday’s $100,000 Laz Barrera Memorial S. […]

5/23/10 Last updated: 5/22/10 6:27 PM Juddmonte Farms’ homebred TREAT GENTLY (GB) (Cape Cross [Ire]) had no shortage of back class from her old days in Europe, but the five-year-old had […]