The front-running winner of the Hong Kong Cup (G1) on the December 10 International Races program, Time Warp put up an even stronger performance to wire Sunday’s Hong Kong Gold Cup (G1) in Sha Tin […]
Thursday’s Dubai World Cup Carnival card got off to a fast start literally and figuratively, as the most tantalizing match-up came in the opening $175,000 Meydan Sprint (G2). Defending champion Ertijaal extended his record to […]
Kazumasa Yamada’s Nonkono Yume has rediscovered his taste for winning. After snapping a more than two-year losing skid in the January 28 Negishi (G3), the whirlwind closer made it two in a row by collaring […]
Rockingham Ranch and Gelfenstein Farm’s X Y Jet turned Saturday’s $100,000 Pelican S. at Tampa Bay Downs into a virtual workout in company for the Dubai Golden Shaheen (G1). The 2-5 favorite as the unambiguous […]
Champion turf horse World Approval, who was expected to aim for the $6 million Dubai Turf (G1), will instead skip a Middle Eastern venture in favor of a spring campaign closer to home. Trainer Mark […]
Fans have voted for Ben’s Cat as the posthumous winner of the 2017 Secretariat Vox Populi Award, and for San Luis Rey’s tragic Lilac Fire as the NTRA Moment of the Year, but who will […]
In his first start since taking home the Eclipse Award as champion turf horse, World Approval obliged as the 1-5 favorite in Saturday’s $175,000 Tampa Bay S. (G3) – but only after the 12-1 Forge forced […]
Juddmonte Farms’ Arrogate was awarded the 2017 Longines World’s Best Racehorse title for the second year in a row at an awards ceremony in London on Tuesday. Determined by a panel of international handicappers, the […]
Godolphin’s multiple Group 1 winner Thunder Snow, a star on the Meydan dirt last winter, is set to return in the $250,000 Al Maktoum Challenge Round 1 (G2) on Thursday’s Dubai World Cup Carnival kickoff. […]
The end of another year is upon us, thus time to anthologize some of my better (IMHO) takes and features published throughout 2017 at Brisnet.com. (you can find my “Best of” collections for 2015 and […]
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