Archive for 2011

By ROBERT KIECKHEFER UPI Racing Writer Top Class Thoroughbreds, sand, surf and turf dominate the Del Mar racing seasonDel Mar Photo Del Mar and Saratoga are open for business this weekend and Ascot runs one of England’s most important races of the year – the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes. The King George […]

July 19, 2011 – “If you actually look like your passport photo, you aren’t well enough to travel.” Sir Vivian Fuchs

July 18, 2011 – “The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.” – Jay Leno

By ROBERT KIECKHEFER UPI Racing Writer

By ROBERT KIECKHEFER UPI Racing Writer Those sorting out likely horses for November’s Breeders’ Cup Classic can move the residents of trainer Bob Baffert’s stable up a couple notches. In a big weekend of racing from coast to coast, Baffert saddled First Dude and Game On Dude to a 1-2 finish in Saturday’s $500,000, Grade […]

By ROBERT KIECKHEFER UPI Racing Writer Independence Day weekend in the United States produced a slew of upsets while England featured a stirring renewal, with international flavor, of the Coral-Eclipse Stakes. The British contest, in fact, overshadowed what turned out to be largely unpredictable racing in the former colonies as a trio of international stars […]

July 1, 2011 – Man is the only animal that blushes…or needs to. Mark Twain

ROBERT KIECKHEFER UPI Racing Writer Inglorious, a well-bred filly, beat the boys rather handily in Sunday’s $1 million Queen’s Plate at Woodbine, near Toronto – the 152nd running of the Classic. With Luis Contreras up, Inglorious got started well back in the field of 17 Ontario-bred 3-year-olds, closed the gap four-wide as the field turned […]

By ROBERT KIECKHEFER UPI Racing Writer A full week of top-level racing from England to California set the stage for some dramatic showdowns before year’s end. With the Royal Ascot meeting highlighting British and Continental stars and a slew of Grade I events on both turf and grass in the United States, fans could start […]

By St. Joe Hirsch Bobby FrankelNYRA Photo We caught up with Hall of Fame trainer Bobby Frankel on opening day of Royal Ascot, as he was dining with the Queen Mother and Marty Ritt, to get his impressions of his namesake, St. James Palace Stakes (G1) winner, Frankel. JH: Prince Khalid Abdullah is very fond […]