Archive for 2015

December 28. 20015 – “Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.” Winston Churchill

By ROBERT KIECKHEFER UPI Racing Writer Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner Runhappy returned to action with a cracking win at Santa Anita while turf races added fireworks to the final Thoroughbred racing weekend of 2016. Internationally, Gold Ship ran his final race in Japan but was upstaged by Gold Actor. And the British All-Weather Championships made […]

By ROBERT KIECKHEFER UPI Racing Writer Trainer Bob Baffert has lost Triple Crown winner American Pharoah to the breeding shed but is already prominent in the 2016 Kentucky Derby picture after sending out a pair of promising juveniles to a 1-2 finish in Saturday’s Los Alamitos Futurity. The Futurity was a highlight of limited racing […]

December 19, 2015 – “Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.” Christine Todd Whitman

By ROBERT KIECKHEFER UPI Racing Writer While many of Thoroughbred racing’s stars took a weekend break, the blue-collar runners had their moments in the spotlight in the Claiming Crown races at Gulfstream Park. The event also provided a nice forum for jockey Javier Castellano, who rode four winners on the stakes card. On the flip […]

November 24, 2015 – “Good things happen slowly, bad things happen fast.” Abigail Thomas

By ROBERT KIECKHEFER UPI Racing Writer Exaggerator emerged as a legitimate Kentucky Derby prospect with a big-money win in Louisiana while one of the world’s top milers, Able Friend, was upset in Hong Kong in a diverse weekend of Thoroughbred racing. Britain’s top riders flexed their muscle a long way from home as Ryan Moore […]

November 16, 2015 – “The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.” Arthur Koestler

By ROBERT KIECKHEFER UPI Racing Writer A massive upset at Churchill Downs, a controversial finish at Laurel Park, a potential future star at Aqueduct and some promising 2-year-olds from coast to coast highlighted weekend racing action. Internationally, Marialite took the lead late in Sunday’s Queen Elizabeth II Cup in Japan and held on for the […]

By ROBERT KIECKHEFER UPI Racing Writer It was a week for looking ahead in Thoroughbred racing, with some rising stars turning heads in Australia and Hong Kong and 2-year-olds on display in Florida, Canada and elsewhere. French-breds finished 1-2 in the New York feature while it was an all-American finish at Churchill Downs. Things continued […]