Archive for 2012

By Jude T. Feld Follow @racehorsereport Champion Royal Delta returns to the scene of her biggest victory on Saturday night at Churchill DownsBreeders’ Cup Photo 1st Race) CAT PAWS is a New York-bred that shows up in Kentucky and drops to the lowest level of his career. The whole process seems rather odd but he […]

June 14, 2012 – “It’s too bad the people who really know how to run the country are so busy cutting hair and driving taxis.” George Burns

June 11, 2012 – “He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.” Jonathan Swift

By ROBERT KIECKHEFER UPI Racing Writer Bob Baffert’s horses didn’t win any of the Triple Crown races but the silver-haired trainer looks to be facing the rest of the year with a top hand. When Union Rags snuck through on the rail to win Saturday’s Belmont Stakes by a neck over pacesetting Paynter, it truly […]

By Jude T. Feld Follow @racehorsereport 1st Race) #13 MARKET PRINCESS will need some scratch help to win the opener, but if she gets in, she is the filly to beat. #11 WET ONE runs at her lowest level to date and should have a say in the outcome with Julien Leparoux in the saddle. […]

By ROBERT KIECKHEFER UPI Racing Writer With the Belmont Stakes still two weeks away, weekend racing focus shifted to contenders for upcoming classics in England and France. Candidates for this fall’s Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Santa Anita also began the long sorting-out process as far away as Buenos Aires. And some top names were […]

May 20, 2012 – “The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.” Leonard Cohen

By Jude T. Feld Jude, Doug O’Neill and Mike Amodei enjoying a post-race Maker’s Mark back at Pimlico’s Stakes Barn, celebrating I’ll Have Another’s game Preakness victoryRian Feld Photo It was five o’clock on Friday afternoon in Baltimore. The spring weather was absolutely beautiful and Old Hilltop was awash in varying shades of pink, from […]

By Jude T. Feld 1st Race) PRINCE NOIR was claimed by sharp trainer Kieron Magee from his last start. He wins with 47% of his recent acquisitions. DISCO DANDY is a “horse for course,” winning four out of five starts on the Pimlico sod. He’s tough to leave off your ticket. ALSTON GUNTER has been […]

By Jude T. Feld 1st Race) On paper, the opener looks like a match race between UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE and SNEAKY LIL. They are impossible to separate, so the tote board will have to be our guide. 2nd Race) UNDER CONTROL is a talented Brazilian gelding, trained by Graham Motion. He has improved his speed figures […]