Eleven years after half-brother Miesque’s Approval upset the Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) at Churchill Downs, World Approval dispatched an international cast in Saturday’s $1,840,000 renewal of the Breeders’ Cup Mile at Del Mar. Unlike his […]
Classic Empire, the champion 2-year-old male of 2016, has been retired and will stand at Coolmore America’s Ashford Stud. Campaigned by John C. Oxley, Classic Empire concluded his juvenile season with back-to-back Grade 1 victories […]
Thanks to a soft turf course at a stormy Woodbine, Sunday’s $226,192 Nearctic (G2) turned into more of a war of attrition than a typical six-furlong sprint. Handling the conditions best was the 40-1 longest […]
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Widely considered the leading three-year-old turf filly in the country last spring, La Coronel had lost her way, and her claim on that designation, with three losses over the summer and fall […]
Trainers Chad Brown and Mark Casse are each taking two shots at Saturday’s $500,000 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup (G1) at Keeneland, but their fillies will need to bring their absolute best as the nine-furlong […]
John C. Oxley’s Flameaway must do an efficacious rain dance in his stall whenever he spies himself entered for the turf. His intended turf debut rained off at Saratoga, the Mark Casse pupil went out […]
Debby M. Oxley’s homebred Heavenly Love earned her shot at Breeders’ Cup glory on Friday when drawing off for a 5 1/2-length victory in the $400,000 Alcibiades Stakes (G1) on opening day of Keeneland’s 2017 […]
She’s won three consecutive Grade 1 races and sits firmly atop the three-year-old filly division, but Abel Tasman‘s long-known plan of targeting the $1 million Cotillion (G1) did not dissuade the connections of 11 others […]
Live Oak Plantation’s homebred World Approval earned just that by demolishing an international cast in Saturday’s $657,312 Woodbine Mile (G1). Arguing the pace throughout in a bunched-up field, the 2-1 favorite left his rivals standing […]
A pair of Breeders’ Cup berths will be awarded at Woodbine Sunday, with the $250,000 Natalma (G1) and $200,000 Summer (G2) serving as “Win & You’re In” qualifiers for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf […]
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