Ali – Grade IIIKEE Race #1 1 3/16m Dirt Graded StakePurse $300.00 For Four Year Olds And Upward. 1 Berlin The Sidley Stud Jimenez A 123 — Like most of these older horses, was fairly innocuous in his younger days… Read More ›
STAKES ARTICLES
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Large Purse at Stake in The OP Handicap
A lot of the recent attention has gone to three year olds, but this weekend, older horses will get their chance to be in the spotlight as a large $1,250.000 purse is there for the taking in the OP Handicap. It’s the first time that this amount has been offered here.
Licit Takes Times Square
NY Stallion Series – Times Square6 1/2 Furlongs Dirt Stake Purse $200.000 Open 3 Year Olds Foaled In NY. 1st Licit D J C Racing Stables Hernandez R M Beaten in an optional claimer a month ago and an easy… Read More ›
Shadow Empire Does the Job in Park Avenue
NY Stallion Series – Park Avenue6 1/2 Furlongs Dirt Stake Purse $200.000 Filly 3 Year Olds Foaled In NY. 1st Shadow Empire Smokey Stover Hernandez R M Things went pretty much to plan although this one had to do plenty… Read More ›
Six-Pack of Ladies to The Gate for Doubledogdare at KEE on Friday
4/19/2024 1 KEE Doubledogdare Stakes (GIII) $300.000 4yo&Up F&M 1 1/16m Dirt 123lbs Friday evening racing with a post-time that doesn’t exist… attention to detail, at every turn. We look at the field of six set for the… Read More ›
Chica Lugo Score Big Win, Takes The Apple Blossom Handicap at OP
4/13/2024 2 OP The Apple Blossom Hcp (GI) $1,250.000 4yo&Up F&M 1 1/16m Dirt Hcp Weights The Green Card missed badly on this one, and by the odds of the top four finishers, quite a few… Read More ›
Painville Holds Off La Terrifiant for Wiley Win
4/13/2024 1 KEE Wiley (GI) $400.000 4yo&Up F&M 1 1/16m Turf 123lbs KEE always delivers great races and Saturday’s Wiley (GI) certainly fit that description. In the end, the Mo Mentum Farm owned Painville lived… Read More ›
Good Memories Wins Lexington, But It’s Backroad Bounty to The KYD
There were two winners in the Grade 3 Lexington, but not because it was a dead heat. Good Memories, trained by Mb Stables, would get the win in the race, getting the headbob over Backroad Bounty. Despite his victory here, Good Memories will not have enough points to make it into the KYD, but Backroad Bounty’s second place effort gets him into the big race in three weeks.
Makers Mark Mile Sees a Dead Heat in Four Way Photo Finish
Makers Mark Mile – Grade I1 Mile Turf Stake Purse $600.000 Open 4 Year Olds And Up. I am not sure I have seen a race recently that says more about horse racing at HRP than this one. The wet… Read More ›
Incinerator Burns Down the Field in The Fleet Sprint Handicap
Since June 2022, Incinerator has not finished lower than second in any race that he has been in, but it would take a claim by Night Rider Stables to start giving the horse the chances at the stake level. Incinerator won his first race for his new trainer, the $100.000 Thomas Stakes, and now in the Fleet Sprint Handicap, he would score the biggest win of his career.
