Ozara has a long way to go to match Fourstardave or even Casa Creed as a Saratoga Race Course legend, but she is certainly moving in the right direction.
JAL Racing's Doncho not only picked up an allowance-optional claiming race victory Aug. 8 at Ellis Park, he also established a North American record in completing 5 1/2 furlongs in :59.75 on firm turf.
Royal Ascot winners and Aidan O'Brien-trained stablemates Gstaad and True Love are set to go head-to-head in the Aug. 9 Phoenix Stakes (G1) at the Curragh in a battle of the sexes.
When Parchment Party won the Aug. 6 Birdstone Stakes, a 1 3/4-mile race dirt race at Saratoga, a plan to tackle one of the most celebrated races in the world, Australia's Melbourne Cup (G1), was foremost on the minds of the colt's owners.
Baoma Corp's Himika, the talk of the town following an impressive debut score, has the chance to back up that performance when she tries stakes company for the first time in the Aug. 10 $150,000 Sorrento Stakes (G3) at Del Mar.
Jockey Katie Davis has promised not to just make up the numbers in the Aug. 9 Shergar Cup and will be calling upon a certain Frankie Dettori for last-minute instructions before her Ascot debut.
After La Cara was scratched from the Coaching Club American Oaks (G1) because of her barn being quarantined, Hall of Fame trainer Mark Casse is doing "a little bit more" with the filly's training to prepare for the Alabama Stakes (G1) Aug. 16.
Jockey Katie Davis has promised not to just make up the numbers in the Aug. 9 Shergar Cup and will be calling upon a certain Frankie Dettori for last-minute instructions before her Ascot debut.
Jockey Katie Davis has promised not to just make up the numbers in the Aug. 9 Shergar Cup and will be calling upon a certain Frankie Dettori for last-minute instructions before her Ascot debut.
After La Cara was scratched from the Coaching Club American Oaks (G1) because of her barn being quarantined, Hall of Fame trainer Mark Casse is doing "a little bit more" with the filly's training to prepare for the Alabama Stakes (G1) Aug. 16.
After La Cara was scratched from the Coaching Club American Oaks (G1) because of her barn being quarantined, Hall of Fame trainer Mark Casse is doing "a little bit more" with the filly's training to prepare for the Alabama Stakes (G1) Aug. 16.
Dual Hall of Fame trainer Mark Casse discusses La Cara's final work for the Aug. 16 Alabama Stakes (G1). The dual grade 1 winner went four furlongs in :49.77 under exercise rider Mary Rose Hitt Aug. 8.
Effective this weekend, 1/ST Racing will discontinue selling the simulcast signal from Gulfstream Park and Santa Anita Park to Hipódromo Camarero in Puerto Rico to address increasing concerns regarding horse welfare and safety at that racetrack.
In 2020, amid the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, jockey Abel Lezcano was diagnosed with non-functioning kidneys. Now, he's healthy again and riding at Del Mar - after his wife Maria donated one of her two kidneys to him.