With his Churchill Downs suspension having been lifted, trainer Bob Baffert wasted no time in setting his sights on the first Saturday in May. For Zedan Racing, agent Donato Lanni signed a ticket for $3.4 million for Hip 72 after a protracted bidding battle on the first night of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale for a Not This Time colt…
Of first-crop stallion’s Volatile’s six winners from 20 starts, two have come at Saratoga Race Course—a small sample size to be sure but also encouraging for Three Chimneys, where the son of Violence stands for $15,000. “It’s really exciting for a horse that was super fast but not particularly precocious,” said Three Chimneys’ COO Chris Baker. “His 2-year-olds are doing it…
Debut winner Uncaged has a lot in common with some of owner Mike Repole’s top horses. Like Vino Rosso, Nest , and Crupi , he’s by Curlin . Like those three, Repole owns him in partnership. All four cost in the low to mid six figures, and all four count Hall of Famer Todd Pletcher as their trainer. And maybe, the colt has something in…
Two of the most influential and talented Black horsemen in the history of Thoroughbred racing will be represented at this Friday’s induction for the National Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame class of 2024. Jockey Abe Hawkins will be inducted, and the importance of jockey/trainer Ed Brown will also be invoked by two men representing…
Peter Proscia of Paradise Farms is seldom the sole owner of his horses, but not uncommonly, he is the sole representative in the winner’s circle, as he was July 24 at Saratoga Race Course, when his second 2-year-old winner of the meet, Out On Bail, graduated in a maiden special weight for New York-breds. The third time…
Trainer Jeremiah Englehart started this summer’s Saratoga meet about as well as one could expect: he won with a two-year-old, with his first starter of the meet, in a graded stakes, and in one of Saratoga’s most historic races, the Sanford Stakes, which has been won by horses like More Than Ready, City Zip, Afleet…
Horses bred in the Mid-Atlantic make up nearly a third of a stacked renewal of the Caress Stakes (G3) at Saratoga on Thursday. The field is led by graded stakes winners Roses for Debra (PA) and Future Is Now (MD). The former is looking to repeat in this race, winning it last year by 2…
Every August, the best yearlings bred in New York State are offered at the Fasig-Tipton sale on East Avenue in Saratoga. In 2019, the average price for a yearling at the sale was $87,000, with the sale topper going for $775,000. In 2021, the top seller brought $495,000, the average rising to $91,000. At Saratoga…
Virgin Colada is a virgin no more, scoring her maiden win at Saratoga Race Course in her first start July 21 and fitting into the plan of her owner. Racing for John Stewart’s Resolute Racing, the 2-year-old More Than Ready filly lagged behind the 10-horse field through most of the 1 1/16-mile inner turf course race. Flavien Prat rode the rail,…
A year ago, breeder John Gunther entered a colt by his racehorse Without Parole in the Keeneland September Yearling Sale. The bay was out of the Street Cry mare Mama Tembu, herself a half sibling to Stage Magic, dam of Justify, and he sold for $95,000 to Avenue Bloodstock. “He went through the sale,” said Gunther, “but there was a problem with the…
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