Straight No Chaser all heart winning the Sprint
Straight No Chaser raced prominently from the start and courageously reeled in Bentornato late in Saturday’s $1,840,000 Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) at Del Mar. […]
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Straight No Chaser brilliant in SA Sprint Championship; Sugar Fish last to first in Zenyatta
Rebounds were the theme in Santa Anita’s graded stakes on Sunday, as Straight No Chaser wired the Santa Anita Sprint Championship (G2), and Sugar Fish won the Zenyatta (G2). […]
Idol, Brickyard Ride, Hit the Road earn signature victories on Santa Anita Handicap Day
Santa Anita H. Running 1 1/4 miles has long been considered the classic test of the American Thoroughbred. Brilliant milers can stretch their speed over 1 1/8 miles, but handling 1 1/4 miles requires at […]
Hit the Road romps in Thunder Road; Masteroffoxhounds hunts down Acclimate in San Marcos
In a changing of the guard, up-and-coming four-year-olds swept both of Santa Anita’s graded turf stakes on Saturday. Hit the Road pretty much told his rivals just that when bolting up in the $100,500 Thunder […]
El Tigre Terrible, last to first in Speakeasy, snares BC Juvenile Turf Sprint spot
A last-minute addition to Sunday’s $101,755 Speakeasy S. at Santa Anita, Slam Dunk Racing and Michael Nentwig’s El Tigre Terrible got up in the last stride to win a spot in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile […]
Catapult delivers knockout blow at 21-1 in Eddie Read
One day after teaming up with budding star Catalina Cruiser in the San Diego H. (G2), trainer John Sadler and jockey Drayden Van Dyke nicked Del Mar’s Sunday feature, the $251,725 Eddie Read S. (G2), […]