While the AR Derby gets the most attention this weekend in the virtual racing world, there is another race in its shadow providing the opportunity for horses to earn last-chance KYD points
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Forty Chai Grabs First Graded Victory in Appalachian
Sophomore filly has now won three straight events with the first coming at the close of her juvenile season. She has captured back to back events to start off this year and made a name for herself on the grass… Read More ›
The Fleet Sprint is one for the pin
The Fleet Sprint Handicap – Grade IIIOP Race #1 6f Dirt Graded StakePurse $500.000 For Four Year Olds And Upward. 1 Hollywood Eclipse Nakamura Stables Fuentes Ru Any horse has to be taken seriously from this stable at the moment… Read More ›
Gunpowder Choice Takes The Excelsior
The Excelsior – GIII 4/4/20 AQU Race 1 1 1/8M – Dirt Purse $150.000 Four Year Olds and Up 1st Gunpowder Choice, trained by Night Rider Stables A first graded stakes win here for this gelding as he showed some… Read More ›
Bite The Bullets In A Nail Biter In The Ashland
The Ashland – GI (P7) [KYO] 4/4/20 KEE Race 4 1 1/16M – Dirt Purse $500.000 Three Year Olds Fillies 1st Bite The Bullet, trained by Mb Stables Turning the tables on a few other runners in here from her… Read More ›
Franke By A Head In The Royal Heroine
The Royal Heroine – GII 4/4/20 SA Race 8 1M – Turf Purse $200.000 Four Year Olds and Up Fillies and Mares 1st Franke, trained by Australia Wide Earning her first graded stakes win of her career right here and… Read More ›
Class And Ability Set Tone For Wiley at KEE
4 KEE Wiley (GI) $350.000 4yo&Up F&M 1 1/16m Turf 123lbs 4/11/2020 Nine classy ladies are entered for Saturday’s Wiley (GI), a mile and a sixteenth trip around the lush KEE… Read More ›
Class Edge Takes it to Edge to Win BG Stakes
Earlier this week, Mb Stables organized a group of trainers to conduct a poll in order get a feel on the community consensus of the top KYD contenders in the game right now. Class Edge was 8th in that poll, with the opinion being that if we were to get a wet track, that he would be the favorite, and we shared that opinion in the preview.
All Hail “Caesar” in The Bay Shore
3 AQU The Bay Shore(GIII) $250.000 7f Dirt 3yo 122lbs Sophomores can be a tough lot to figure out,… Read More ›
Orion Nebula Bounces Back, Takes SA Derby in Battle to Wire
13 SA SA Derby (GI) [KYD] $1,000.000 3yo 1 1/8m Dirt 122lbs In his last race, I picked Orion… Read More ›