Trainer makes history with Arcangelo’s triumph in the Belmont Stakes

1 year, 6 months ago

Trainer makes history with Arcangelo’s triumph in the Belmont Stakes

LA Times

Arcangelo trainer Jena Antonucci, center, holds up the August Belmont Trophy alongside jockey Javier Castellano, right, and owner Jon Ebbert after winning the 155th running of the Belmont Stakes on Saturday. In the 452nd Triple Crown race, Jena Antonucci became the first female trainer to win a classic when Arcangelo found a spot on the inside and rushed through to win the 155th running of the Belmont Stakes. Arcangelo, with jockey Javier Castellano, crosses the finish line to win the 155th running of the Belmont Stakes on Saturday. That’s why we’re here.” Antonucci never set out to be the first female trainer to win a Triple Crown race.

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Dornoch holds off Mindframe to win the 156th Belmont Stakes in an upset

6 months, 2 weeks ago

Dornoch holds off Mindframe to win the 156th Belmont Stakes in an upset

LA Times

In a Triple Crown year in which the unpredictable became the predictable, it was only fitting that the winner of the 156th Belmont Stakes was a long shot. And on Saturday, Dornoch, whose last two races could charitably be called underwhelming, pulled a major upset at 17-1 to etch his name in the history of thoroughbred racing by winning the …

Arcangelo wins Belmont Stakes to make Jena Antonucci 1st female trainer to win a Triple Crown race

1 year, 6 months ago

Arcangelo wins Belmont Stakes to make Jena Antonucci 1st female trainer to win a Triple Crown race

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Jena Antonucci turned a Triple Crown marred by thoroughbred deaths on the track and threatened by bad air quality from wildfires in Canada into a celebration for racing and women. Arcangelo took the lead at the top of the stretch and won the Belmont Stakes on Saturday, making the 47-year-old Antonucci the first female trainer to win …

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Jonbon wins Tingle Creek Chase at Sandown to join the £1million club... and emulate the great Kauto Star

Daily Mail

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Trainer Bob Baffert wins 1st race back at Churchill Downs after the end of his 3-year suspension

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Trainer Bob Baffert wins 1st race back at Churchill Downs after the end of his 3-year suspension

Associated Press

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Bob Baffert returned to Churchill Downs for the first time in 3 1/2 years on Wednesday, saddling the winner in the seventh race at the home of the Kentucky Derby. Churchill Downs Inc. CEO Bill Carstanjen shook hands with the Hall of Fame trainer he once battled in court. His horse, Medina Spirit, crossed the finish line …

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Top trainer could make shock move after his horse was controversially axed from the Melbourne Cup - as Via Sistina is ruled OUT of the race

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Top trainer could make shock move after his horse was controversially axed from the Melbourne Cup - as Via Sistina is ruled OUT of the race

Daily Mail

Irish trainer Aidan O'Brien is considering whether to send another horse to the Melbourne Cup after vets dramatically stopped Jan Brueghel from running in this year's contest. Via Sistina has been withdrawn from the Melbourne Cup in a decision that will disappoint many punters Irish trainer Aidan O'Brien has said he was left 'staggered' by the controversial decision to axe …

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The Telegraph

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Subsanador edges field in dramatic California Crown $1-million race at Santa Anita

2 months, 3 weeks ago

Subsanador edges field in dramatic California Crown $1-million race at Santa Anita

LA Times

Wathnan Racing’s Subsanador and jockey Mike Smith, center, hold off two other horses to win the inaugural California Crown Stakes Saturday at Santa Anita in Arcadia. If you are trying to attract new fans to horse racing, you couldn’t script a better ending than Saturday’s $1-million California Crown at Santa Anita. Sports Santa Anita’s California Crown event looks to make …

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Fierceness holds off Thorpedo Anna to win the Travers and deny the filly’s attempt to beat the boys

4 months ago

Fierceness holds off Thorpedo Anna to win the Travers and deny the filly’s attempt to beat the boys

Associated Press

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Fierceness held off Thorpedo Anna’s late charge to win the $1.25 million Travers Stakes by a head on Saturday, denying the filly’s attempt to become the first female winner of the Grade 1 race in over a century. He’s been a little bit unjustly criticized for not winning every time,” Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher …

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Jayson Werth’s Dornoch secures Breeders’ Cup berth with Haskell win: ‘Incredible horse’

5 months ago

Jayson Werth’s Dornoch secures Breeders’ Cup berth with Haskell win: ‘Incredible horse’

New York Times

After retiring from baseball, Jayson Werth found success in another field: horse racing. The former MLB All-Star, who won the 2008 World Series with the Philadelphia Phillies, achieved his latest victory Saturday — this one at the track — when three-year-old colt Dornoch won the Haskell Stakes for a berth to the Breeders’ Cup in November. It’s an unbelievable game.” …

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Churchill Downs reinstates trainer Bob Baffert from three-year suspension

5 months ago

Churchill Downs reinstates trainer Bob Baffert from three-year suspension

LA Times

It took three years to resolve, but finally the country’s most famous trainer can once again run in the world’s most famous race. The standoff that gave a lot of attorneys a lot of billable hours ended Friday when Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert accepted responsibility for Medina Spirit‘s positive test after winning the 2021 Kentucky Derby, and Churchill …

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Alex Palou reclaims IndyCar championship lead with win at Laguna Seca

6 months ago

Alex Palou reclaims IndyCar championship lead with win at Laguna Seca

Associated Press

MONTEREY, Calif. — Two-time IndyCar champion Alex Palou reclaimed the lead in the points standings by winning from the pole Sunday at Laguna Seca Raceway. It’s the most beautiful place we go to, for sure.” Palou lost the lead exiting the first turn of the race to Kyle Kirkwood but reclaimed it through strategy. “It was too risky, but it …

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Commentary: Irascible D. Wayne Lukas brings energy to an otherwise dull Belmont Stakes

6 months, 2 weeks ago

Commentary: Irascible D. Wayne Lukas brings energy to an otherwise dull Belmont Stakes

LA Times

Trainer D. Wayne Lukas looks on as Preakness Stakes winner and Belmont Stakes entrant Seize The Grey cools down following a work out on Wednesday in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Saturday’s third leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown will, once again, be the pretty girl at the prom who gets jilted when her date doesn’t show up. When D. Wayne saddled …

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Belmont with Kentucky Derby and Preakness winners could be the best of these Triple Crown races

6 months, 2 weeks ago

Belmont with Kentucky Derby and Preakness winners could be the best of these Triple Crown races

Associated Press

Horse racing history of all kinds is being made Saturday in the final Triple Crown race of the year. Five weeks since Mystik Dan finished a nose ahead of Sierra Leone in the Derby and three weeks since he was second to Seize the Grey in the Preakness, all three are in the 10-horse field in the Belmont for a …

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Preakness winner Seize the Grey is likely running in the 1st Belmont at Saratoga

7 months ago

Preakness winner Seize the Grey is likely running in the 1st Belmont at Saratoga

Associated Press

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Forget the Triple Crown. Even the Derby-Preakness double has been too much to ask of late

7 months ago

Forget the Triple Crown. Even the Derby-Preakness double has been too much to ask of late

Associated Press

BALTIMORE — The Preakness has turned into a quite a spoiler lately on the road to the Triple Crown. Mystik Dan’s 2 1/4-length defeat Saturday marked the sixth consecutive year the Kentucky Derby winner failed to win the Preakness. It just wasn’t his day, but he’ll live to race again.” After a dramatic Derby win in a three-horse photo finish, …

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7 months ago

Jaime Torres wins the Preakness with Seize the Grey 2 years after starting to ride horses

Associated Press

BALTIMORE — Jaime Torres was watching horse racing on television in his native Puerto Rico in 2019 when he decided he wanted to be a jockey. Less than five years later and just two since he began riding, Torres won the Preakness Stakes on Saturday aboard Seize the Grey. You can’t think like, ‘Oh, that’s going to happen.’ You’ve just …

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Seize the Grey wins the Preakness for D. Wayne Lukas and ends Mystik Dan’s Triple Crown bid

7 months ago

Seize the Grey wins the Preakness for D. Wayne Lukas and ends Mystik Dan’s Triple Crown bid

Associated Press

BALTIMORE — D. Wayne Lukas worked his way to Seize the Grey after his horse won the Preakness Stakes and kept getting interrupted by well-wishers offering congratulations. Seize the Grey ended Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan’s Triple Crown bid Saturday by going wire to wire to win the Preakness, giving Lukas his seventh victory in the race, one short of …

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Seize the Grey earns wire-to-wire Preakness Stakes win on muddy track

7 months, 1 week ago

Seize the Grey earns wire-to-wire Preakness Stakes win on muddy track

LA Times

Jaime Torres, front, atop Seize The Grey, leads the pack heading into the first turn before winning the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course Saturday in Baltimore. It was really chaotic.” Jockey Jaime Torres, atop Seize The Grey, reacts after winning the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course Saturday in Baltimore. He brings in a horse two weeks after he …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Why Mystik Dan’s Triple Crown chances are better than you might expect

LA Times

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Former world champion Alaphilippe wins the hilly 12th stage of the Giro. Pogacar still leads

7 months, 1 week ago

Former world champion Alaphilippe wins the hilly 12th stage of the Giro. Pogacar still leads

Associated Press

FANO, Italy — Two-time world champion Julian Alaphilippe won the hilly 12th stage of the Giro d’Italia on Thursday with a solo breakaway, while Tadej Pogacar finished safely in the main pack to retain the pink jersey. It was Alaphilippe’s first victory in the Giro, to go with his six stage wins at the Tour de France and one at …

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7 months, 1 week ago

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Associated Press

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Kentucky Derby victory aboard Mystik Dan provides signature win for jockey Brian Hernandez Jr.

7 months, 2 weeks ago

Kentucky Derby victory aboard Mystik Dan provides signature win for jockey Brian Hernandez Jr.

Associated Press

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Brian Hernandez Jr. will need a minute to digest his signature victory in the 150th Kentucky Derby. I hope we won.’ And then when they hung up our number, it was just instant relief.” Hernandez’s derby victory aboard Mystik Dan at 18-1 odds came a day after he rode filly Thorpedo Anna to a wire-to-wire rout by …

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Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan might be skipping Preakness Stakes

7 months, 2 weeks ago

Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan might be skipping Preakness Stakes

LA Times

Jockey Brian Hernandez Jr. celebrates in the Winner’s Circle after riding Mystik Dan to victory in the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby on Saturday at Churchill Downs. Kenny McPeek, trainer of the Kentucky Derby winner, said Sunday morning that he has not committed to going to Baltimore to race May 18 after the horse seemed a little off after …

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Filly Thorpedo Anna goes wire to wire to dominate soggy 150th Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Filly Thorpedo Anna goes wire to wire to dominate soggy 150th Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs

Associated Press

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Thorpedo Anna capped her biggest victory with one impressive burst. The filly went wire to wire in the 150th Kentucky Oaks on Friday, pulling away from a charging Just F Y I to win by 4 3/4 lengths in the slop at Churchill Downs. Thorpedo Anna’s quick splits in her longest race over a muddy surface made …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

After top betting choices Fierceness and Sierra Leone, it’s wide open for the 150th Kentucky Derby

Associated Press

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Fate has not been kind to Mike Repole in the Kentucky Derby. “A horse like this calms me down.” A sharp-dressed crowd of about 150,000 is expected to jam Churchill Downs to wager and watch the 1 1/4-mile Derby. Now he has early 8-1 third choice Catching Freedom and 10-1 co-fourth choice Just a Touch, who didn’t …

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Black trainer Larry Demeritte brings his $11,000 horse to the Kentucky Derby

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Black trainer Larry Demeritte brings his $11,000 horse to the Kentucky Derby

The Independent

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Trainer Phil D’Amato realizes his Kentucky Derby dream thanks to Stronghold

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Trainer Phil D’Amato realizes his Kentucky Derby dream thanks to Stronghold

LA Times

It’s really quite simple. With trainer Bob Baffert still ineligible to race at Churchill Downs, the weight of California racing was on D’Amato’s shoulders before the Santa Anita Derby. “I started really working pretty much at Churchill Down when I first started in this game, finishing off the day looking at the Twin Spires, thinking about one day, hopefully, getting …

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Jayson Werth’s love of horse racing after baseball has led him to the Kentucky Derby

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Jayson Werth’s love of horse racing after baseball has led him to the Kentucky Derby

Associated Press

Jayson Werth got to Churchill Downs in the middle of Kentucky Derby week and was overcome by a familiar feeling. It’s definitely heightened, and you get the sense, ‘This is it, this is the highest level of the sport.’” Werth won the World Series with Philadelphia and played 63 playoff games during his major league career with the Toronto Blue …

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Triple Crown winner Justify, jockey Joel Rosario among those elected to horse racing’s Hall of Fame

7 months, 4 weeks ago

Triple Crown winner Justify, jockey Joel Rosario among those elected to horse racing’s Hall of Fame

Associated Press

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Triple Crown winner Justify, 2017 Horse of the Year Gun Runner and jockey Joel Rosario have been elected to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility. Jockey Abe Hawkins, Aristides, winner of the first Kentucky Derby in 1875, and Lecomte were selected by the Pre-1900 Historic Review Committee. …

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We bought a racehorse after a night out – here’s how it won the Ascot of the North against all odds

8 months ago

We bought a racehorse after a night out – here’s how it won the Ascot of the North against all odds

The Independent

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Gaucho Derby riders captured on film in Patagonia by Victorian photographer Kathy Gabriel

9 months, 1 week ago

Gaucho Derby riders captured on film in Patagonia by Victorian photographer Kathy Gabriel

ABC

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Belmont Stakes will be held at Saratoga Race Course in 2024. Triple Crown finale will be 1 1/4 miles

1 year ago

Belmont Stakes will be held at Saratoga Race Course in 2024. Triple Crown finale will be 1 1/4 miles

Associated Press

The Belmont is heading to Saratoga for the first time — but almost certainly not the last. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday that the 2024 Belmont Stakes will be run at Saratoga Race Course, with the third leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown shifting upstate from Long Island because of the massive renovation of Belmont Park. “We’re going to get it …

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After an up-and-down career, White Abarrio takes victory in Breeders’ Cup Classic

1 year, 1 month ago

After an up-and-down career, White Abarrio takes victory in Breeders’ Cup Classic

LA Times

Jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. celebrates after riding White Abarrio to victory in the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Santa Anita Park on Saturday. It just makes you feel like a good horseman, and that’s always what I wanted to be.” Jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. rides White Abarrio to victory in the Breeders’ Cup Classic on Saturday. “It’s probably one of the …

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Practical Move, top Breeders’ Cup horse, dies at Santa Anita of apparent cardiac event

1 year, 1 month ago

Practical Move, top Breeders’ Cup horse, dies at Santa Anita of apparent cardiac event

LA Times

The Breeders’ Cup, horse racing’s most prestigious series of races, is finding itself in a public perception nightmare as one of its top horses died on Tuesday and the Belmont and Travers Stakes winner pulled out of the $6-million Classic. Practical Move, the Santa Anita Derby winner who was considered a favorite for the Kentucky Derby before scratching out with …

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Breeders’ Cup Classic field starts to fill in with Slow Down Andy win

1 year, 2 months ago

Breeders’ Cup Classic field starts to fill in with Slow Down Andy win

LA Times

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World Athletics Championships 2023: Soufiane El Bakkali retains 3,000m steeplechase title in Budapest

1 year, 4 months ago

World Athletics Championships 2023: Soufiane El Bakkali retains 3,000m steeplechase title in Budapest

The Hindu

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Kentucky Derby winner Mage returns for $1 million Haskell at Monmouth Park

1 year, 5 months ago

Kentucky Derby winner Mage returns for $1 million Haskell at Monmouth Park

Associated Press

OCEANPORT, N.J. — Kentucky Derby winner Mage is expected to race for the first time since finishing third in the Preakness when the 3-year-old colt takes on seven rivals in the $1 million Haskell Stakes at Monmouth Park on Saturday. 4 post position on Wednesday and was made the co-second choice behind 5-2 morning-line favorite Arabian Knight, who will be …

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Horse euthanized after 13th at Belmont, 1 race after final leg of Triple Crown

1 year, 6 months ago

Horse euthanized after 13th at Belmont, 1 race after final leg of Triple Crown

Associated Press

NEW YORK — A horse that broke down in the race following the $1.5 million Belmont Stakes was euthanized on Saturday, completing a grim Triple Crown for a sport that has seen deaths cast a pall over all three tracks hosting its most prestigious races. In the 13th race at Belmont Park, a 1 1/16-mile race on turf after the …

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Bob Baffert’s return to Belmont Stakes highlights exciting close to Triple Crown series

1 year, 6 months ago

Bob Baffert’s return to Belmont Stakes highlights exciting close to Triple Crown series

LA Times

Trainer Bob Baffert observes the stables at Belmont Park as workouts continue Friday ahead of the Belmont Stakes. The sky over Belmont Park had cleared, gone was the orange haze from Canadian wildfires that forced state officials to suspend racing and training two days before the final leg of the Triple Crown. It’s cloudy and gloomy there.” Friday was Baffert’s …

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Belmont Park renovation work could bring Breeders’ Cup to New York in the future

1 year, 6 months ago

Belmont Park renovation work could bring Breeders’ Cup to New York in the future

Associated Press

The home of the third and final leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown is finally getting a major makeover. New York Racing Association president and CEO Dave O’Rourke expects a clearer answer on that in the coming months when the project is further along. “Saratoga would be an interesting one for, like, a festival for a few days,” O’Rourke told …

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Have three races in five weeks for horse racing’s Triple Crown made it obsolete?

1 year, 6 months ago

Have three races in five weeks for horse racing’s Triple Crown made it obsolete?

LA Times

No horse will run in all legs of the Triple Crown this year, which ends with the Belmont Stakes on Saturday. Many of those in the racing industry, when faced with the idea of change, would just as soon wrap their arms around Tevye in his horse-drawn wagon and belt out a rousing version of “Tradition.” Yet faced with a …

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Why the Belmont Stakes will be the best Triple Crown race of the year

1 year, 6 months ago

Why the Belmont Stakes will be the best Triple Crown race of the year

LA Times

It’s not often that the best of the Triple Crown races is the last one but that’s how it is this year with 155th running of the Belmont Stakes on Saturday. It has arguably the best 3-year-old in Forte, the winner of the Preakness Stakes in National Treasure and eight other horses who should be fresh enough to handle the …

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Baffert back from ban, wins Preakness with National Treasure after another horse euthanized

1 year, 7 months ago

Baffert back from ban, wins Preakness with National Treasure after another horse euthanized

Associated Press

BALTIMORE — Bob Baffert choked back tears and his voice cracked while he tried to juggle the conflicting feelings of seeing one of his horses win the Preakness Stakes hours after another was euthanized on the same track. “To win this — losing that horse today really hurt.. It’s been a very emotional day.” 472568e58f5546a7ad4d4d2d6ba0ada6 National Treasure won the Preakness …

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Bob Baffert is back holding court as he returns to Triple Crown series at Preakness

1 year, 7 months ago

Bob Baffert is back holding court as he returns to Triple Crown series at Preakness

LA Times

Bob Baffert was back in his element, standing outside the stakes barn, talking with friends, talking to owners, talking to reporters. I think we’re going to find out.” Baffert has won this race seven times, and a victory would break a tie with Robert Wyndham Walden for most Preakness wins by a trainer. The best horse usually wins this race.” …

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Preakness Stakes storylines: All eyes on Mage’s Triple Crown quest

1 year, 7 months ago

Preakness Stakes storylines: All eyes on Mage’s Triple Crown quest

LA Times

There is little time to reflect on who won the Kentucky Derby before the second leg of the Triple Crown comes up two weeks later. First of all, there is only one horse who could win the Triple Crown, Mage, winner of the Derby. Thirty-six horses have won both the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, yet only 13 have gone on …

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Mage’s path to the Triple Crown gets easier as Preakness field shrinks

1 year, 7 months ago

Mage’s path to the Triple Crown gets easier as Preakness field shrinks

LA Times

Javier Castellano, atop Mage, parades on the track before the Kentucky Derby on May 6 in Louisville, Ky. Mage won the Derby and was made the 8-5 favorite to win the Preakness. Kentucky Derby champion Mage’s path to becoming the 14th Triple Crown winner got a little easier Monday, not because of his draw for the Preakness Stakes on Saturday …

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Mage wins star-crossed Kentucky Derby amid 7th death

1 year, 7 months ago

Mage wins star-crossed Kentucky Derby amid 7th death

Associated Press

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — After seven deaths raised questions about the future of horse racing, Mage earned a surprising Kentucky Derby victory on Saturday, capping a nerve-rattling day that included two more fatalities ahead of the 149th edition of the world’s most famous race. “He proved today that it didn’t matter,” assistant trainer and co-owner Gustavo Delgado Jr. said. “It’s a …

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Derby-winning trainer Rick Dutrow back from 10-year exile

1 year, 7 months ago

Derby-winning trainer Rick Dutrow back from 10-year exile

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Rick Dutrow, who trained 2008 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Big Brown, won his first race Saturday in his return from a 10-year suspension by New York racing officials. Prince of Pharoahs, sired by 2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah, won the sixth race at Belmont Park in New York. The 63-year-old Dutrow regained his trainer’s license …

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Horse trainer suspended from Kentucky Derby after unexplained deaths of 2 horses

1 year, 7 months ago

Horse trainer suspended from Kentucky Derby after unexplained deaths of 2 horses

Associated Press

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Churchill Downs suspended trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. indefinitely and Lord Miles, who is trained by Joseph, was scratched from the Kentucky Derby on Thursday, days after the sudden death of two of his horses at the track. We feel these measures are our duty and responsibility.” Investigators have yet to find any cause in the deaths of …

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