Mine That Bird Derby1 1/16 Mile Dirt Stake Purse $100.000 Open 3 Year Olds. 1st Adjudication Bayou Star Farm Purcell K The one thing we are getting used to seeing recently is big form swings with no obvious explanation to… Read More ›
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Essential Land Dominguez Memorial Handicap Winner
Dominguez Memorial Handicap1 1/16 Mile Dirt Stake Purse $100.00 Open 4 Year Olds And Up Foaled In NM. 1st Essential Blazin D Tohill K S This five-year-old may not have had the fastest works in the race but what he… Read More ›
La Roo Best in Santa Ysabel
Santa Ysabel Stakes (G3) Purse $100.000 SA – 1 1/16 mile – Dirt For Fillies Three Years Old February 25, 2023 La Roo broke alertly and settled into third place behind Empire Sunset and Be Patient in the early going…. Read More ›
Shadow State Wins Honeybee
The Honeybee – Grade 3 – $300.000 OP – 1 1/16 Mile – Dirt For Fillies Three Years Old February 25, 2023 The track was sloppy, but that didn’t matter to Shadow State. The field got away in good form…. Read More ›
Ladies Want Me Will Have to Beat New Shooters in Hedeman Mile at SUN
Hedeman Mile Sunday, February 26, 2023 SUN Race #6 $100.000 NM-Bred 3YOs 120 LBS (plus penalties) 1-Mile #1 Luna Beech (Asgar/L.R. Rodriguez 122): Gelding makes his ’23 bow after just missing in juvenile finale at this same level. Rail draw… Read More ›
BC Winner Drinkin Creepin Looks to Make It Three Straight in Baffle Stakes
Baffle Stakes Sunday, February 26, 2023 SA Race #6 $100.000 3YOs 121 Lbs 61/2 Furlongs (Turf) #1 Apache Ascent (High Voltage/E. Maldonado): Recently purchased for $40.000, he’ll make his barn debut here. Won at first asking before finishing fifth in… Read More ›
Energizer Party Keeps Going in the Stretch to Win The Rebel
Time is getting closer to the KYD, and predictions are being made as to who we feel might be in the race. On the other hand, we are still far enough away from the big race for a new name to enter the discussion that had not been talked about before.
Binnington Saves The Day In GP Sprint Championship
The field was small for the GP Sprint Championship, a race that historically has drawn at least ten horses. It had been a graded stake up until this year, but the purse was in line with recent editions, so I don’t think that downgrade played that much of an impact.
D J C Stables Owns AQU Stakes, Wins The Stymie in Photo
2/25/23 3 AQU The Stymie $125.000 4YO&UP 1m Dirt 123lbs +penalties D J C Racing Stables owns the Empire State today, taking both stakes races, this one by the slightest of margins as… Read More ›
Verrazano Overcomes Traffic and Foes to Take The Gander
2/25/23 2 AQU The Gander $100.000 3YO Foaled in NY 1m Dirt 122lbs +penalties D J C Racing Stables‘ Verrazano looked like traffic would be his biggest foe today… well, he beat that… Read More ›