Archive for 2014

By ROBERT KIECKHEFER UPI Racing Writer Add to the likely Kentucky Derby list: We Miss Artie, Chitu and Midnight Hawk, giving trainers Todd Pletcher and Bob Baffert five of the top six prospects. Baffert saddled Chitu and Midnight Hawk to a 1-2 finish in Sunday’s Sunland Park Derby in New Mexico. Pletcher sent out We […]

March 21, 2014 – “Sex is like money. Only too much is enough.” John Updike

Follow @racehorsereport SANTA ANITA RACE 4 – THE SAN LUIS REY (G2) Back in the day, when this race was weight-for-age, it was among the toughest races to win in the United States. Ruined now by allowance conditions and relegated to a Grade 2, only five horses are entered. With the short field, at this […]

By ROBERT KELLEY KIECKHEFER UPI Racing Writer A colt named Hoppertunity hopped right into the Kentucky Derby picture this weekend while, elsewhere, some fillies flashed fine form, the fields for Dubai World Cup night came into focus and a pair of embattled Hong Kong runners showed international promise. And a happy St. Patrick’s Day to […]

March 15, 2014 – “Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.” David Lee Roth

March 14, 2014 – “It is better to spend money like there’s no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there’s no money!” An old Irish toast

Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas sends out his Kentucky Derby (G1) hopeful, Strong Mandate, in the Rebel Stakes (G2) at Oaklawn ParkOaklawn Park Photo OAKLAWN PARK RACE 8 – THE AZERI (G2) Multiple Grade 1 winner CLOSE HATCHES makes her 2014 debut in this Hot Springs, Arkansas event, named for one of the […]

By ROBERT KIECKHEFER UPI Racing Writer Super Saturday at Meydan featured winners from around the world while Game On Dude proved best in the “Big Cap” at Santa Anita as the top three U.S. handicap stars stayed home. A bustling weekend of horse racing also included a victory by California Chrome in an important Kentucky […]

By ROBERT KIECKHEFER UPI Racing Writer The New York troupe of would-be Kentucky Derby players has a boffo hit on its hands. Undefeated Samraat bested fellow New York-bred Uncle Sigh for the second time in Saturday’s $500,000, Grade III Gotham Stakes at Aqueduct, cementing a rivalry that, with luck, will spice up this year’s Run […]

February 24, 2014 – “Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.” Steve Jobs