News Stories From Horse Racing
Southwest: Secret Circle gives Baffert a sweep
Published: 21 February 2012, 5:56 pm
Rafael Bejarano and trainer Bob Baffert teamed up to win the second division with the highly-rated Secret Circle. | Details...
Southwest: Castaway gives Baffert first division
Published: 21 February 2012, 5:55 pm
The Bob Baffert-trained Castaway stepped up off a maiden win at Santa Anita to dominate the first division of Monday's Grade 3, $250,000 Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn Park. | Details...
Buena Vista: City to City rebounds from Frankel
Published: 21 February 2012, 5:52 pm
City to City could do no better than fourth as the 9-5 favorite in the Grade 2 Robert J. Frankel Stakes on New Year's Day, so bettors let her go off at 8-1 in Monday's Grade 2, $150,000 Buena Vista Handicap. | Details...
'Twist' leads Dutrow exacta in General George
Published: 21 February 2012, 5:50 pm
After rating in behind stablemate This Ones for Phil for nearly six furlongs, Steel Your Face Stables' Yawanna Twist drove up inside that rival with a sixteenth remaining to grab the Grade 2, $200,000 General George Handicap. | Details...
TwinSpires announces Triple Crown Showdown
Published: 20 February 2012, 4:59 pm
TwinSpires.com, the official advance-deposit wagering service for Churchill Downs Inc., is offering its players an opportunity to win up to $1 million by betting the Kentucky Derby preps and the Triple Crown with TwinSpires.com. | Details...
Derby champ Animal Kingdom returns with win
Published: 20 February 2012, 4:39 pm
The 2011 Kentucky Derby winner, Animal Kingdom, made return to the races an impressive winning over the Gulfstream Park turf course. | Details...
R Holiday Mood guts out Hurricane Bertie win
Published: 19 February 2012, 11:44 pm
R Holiday Mood dueled with Funny Sunny throughout Sunday's Hurricane Bertie Stakes at Gulfstream Park, and just got the best of that rival when keeping her neck in front on the wire of the 6 1/2-furlong affair under jockey John Velazquez. | Details...
Ellafitz wires the field in $200,000 Santa Maria
Published: 19 February 2012, 10:44 pm
Ellafitz led all the way home in the Grade 2, $200,000 Santa Maria Stakes at Santa Anita on Saturday, scoring by 1 1/4 lengths over a furiously rallying Vision in Gold and Miss Mittagong, who dead-heated for second. | Details...
'Freeze' red-hot in G2 GP Sprint Championship
Published: 19 February 2012, 10:33 pm
Force Freeze wins the Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Sprint Championship Stakes. | Details...
El Camino Real: 'Daddy' beats 'Chappy' to wire
Published: 19 February 2012, 10:22 pm
Bob and Cathy Zollars' Daddy Nose Best outdueled Lucky Chappy after a stretch-long drive in Saturday's Grade 3, $201,300 El Camino Real Derby, prevailing in the tightest-ever finish to Golden Gate Fields' signature prep for the Kentucky Derby. | Details...
Drill rebounds in San Vicente
Published: 19 February 2012, 9:35 pm
Trainer Bob Baffert had to go back to the drawing board after Drill dropped five straight, but the Hall of Famer evidently came up with the right game plan as the colt returned to his best in Sunday's Grade 2, $147,000 San Vicente Stakes at Santa Anita. | Details...
Magical Feeling scores upset in Fritchie Handicap
Published: 18 February 2012, 9:35 pm
Magical Feeling posted a 27-1 upset in Saturday's Grade 2, $200,000 Barbara Fritchie Handicap at Laurel Park | Details...
Contest gives fans chance to name Curlin foal
Published: 14 February 2012, 1:05 pm
Racing fans will have the chance to name Rachel Alexandra's first foal, the Curlin colt born Jan. 22, in a contest her owners announced on Feb. 14. | Details...
Union Rags individual favorite in Pool 1 of KDFW
Published: 13 February 2012, 2:37 am
The mutuel field, or "All Others", wagering interest in 2012's first of three pools in Churchill Downs' Kentucky Derby Future Wager closed as the 3-2 favorite on Sunday after leading all three days of Pool 1. | Details...
Hymn Book over Mission Impazible in G1 Donn
Published: 13 February 2012, 1:33 am
Stuart Janney III's homebred Hymn Book stamped himself as a horse to watch in the handicap ranks this season with a minor upset of Saturday's Grade 1, $500,000 Donn Handicap. | Details...