Downs $175,000 1 1/8 on Dirt -The Downs Racetrack & CasinoAlbuquerque New Mexico Let’s take a look at the six horses entered for the Downs Stakes Saturday. Not often a five-year-old with one lifetime win would go favored… Read More ›
STAKES ARTICLES
All the Stakes previews and reviews.
Who Should We Love In The QE II Challenge Cup?
The highlight of the racing schedule this weekend will be the $800.000 Grade 1 QE II Challenge Cup from KEE. This is for three year old fillies, and sends them nine furlongs on the turf course. It’s been run every year since 2005, and the purse is at its high point right now, up from $750.000 last year.
Sycamore Could Go Any of Eight Ways
Sycamore – Grade II KEE Race #1 1 1/2m Turf Graded StakePurse $400.000 For Three Year Olds And Upward. 1 Racket Cat Alydar Stables Salles L 124 — Seems to have turned the corner as a five-year-old with 4 of… Read More ›
Starting Over Outkicks Barossa Valley in Spinster
Race: Spinster – Grade I [BC] • Distance/Surface: 1 1/8 miles, Dirt • Purse: $650.00 • Track: Keeneland (Fast)Final time: 1:47.92 • Fractions: :47.1 • 1:11.1 • 1:35.4 • 1:47.4Winner: Starting Over (Owner: TwinTowersRacing) • Jockey: Lezcano JExotics: $1 Exacta… Read More ›
Hollywood Cruises into BC Sprint
Phoenix – Grade II 6 Furlongs Dirt $400.000 Three Year Olds and Up Winner: Hollywood Cruiser. 7-year-old gelding. Dream Cruise/Hollywood Returns (Hollywood Kruz). Grit and determination earned a hard-fought win for this veteran who took down his second graded stakes… Read More ›
Fight Clubber Knocks Them Out in Stretch to Win Bourbon
Two year old stakes races can often give us a surprising winner, but that would not be the case for readers of our preview, as Fight Clubber showed that his win in the KD Juvenile was not a fluke by knocking out the field in the Bourbon. Why he was 19/1, I can’t explain, but take that easy money!
Late and Lethal: Lady Lara Takes TC of America
Race: TC of America (Grade II) — Keeneland, 6 furlongs, Dirt, Purse $400.000, Fillies & Mares 3YO+Track: Fast • Fractions: :22.2 • :45.2 • :57.1 • Final: 1:09.11 Order of finish (top 3): 1) Lady Lara (Night Mare Racing, Geroux… Read More ›
First Lady Goes to the Beach
First Lady – Grade I1 Mile Turf Stake Purse $800.000 Filly & Mare 3 Year Olds And Up. 1st Beach Towel Winning Link Stables Curtis B Well, for the first 15 races of this four-year-olds career she raced on dirt… Read More ›
Hurts Takes a Familiar Road to The BC
Breeders Futurity – Grade I [BC] [KYD]1 1/16 Mile Dirt Stake Purse $650.000 Open 2 Year Olds. 1st Hurts Royalty Stables Velazquez J R If we didn’t have a BC favorite before this race we probably have now as this… Read More ›
The Frizette Goes to Santorini at AQU
The Frizette – Grade I1 Mile Dirt Stake Purse $400.000 Two-Year-Olds. At AQU 1st Santorini Riggins Racing 5.25-1 (HRP) 4-1 (SRF) Well, that seven-furlong work foretold this win for Santorini, as she unleashed a wicked stretch run that brought her… Read More ›