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By Mike Willman ESCAPE CLAUSE BENOIT PHOTO MANITOBA CANADIAN-BRED ESCAPE CLAUSE ROUTS FOES IN GRADE III, $100,000 LA CANADA STAKES, WINNING BY 5 ½ LENGTHS UNDER BAZE; OWNED & TRAINED BY SCHNELL, SHE GETS 1 1/16 MILES ON WET FAST TRACK IN 1:41.89 ARCADIA, Calif. (Jan. 12,...

By David Joseph —- Doctor Mounty; Leslie Martin Photos Doctor Mounty Gets a Trip in Tropical Turf (G3) Slow Start Hurts Even-Money Favorite Heart to Heart HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – A tough trip for even-money favorite Heart to Heart and a Hall of Fame trip under jockey Javier...

By Brian Bohl —- OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Saratoga Seven Racing Partners’ Honor Up used a five-path trip in deep stretch to overtake a group of rivals with more extensive stakes experience, edging Syndergaard by a neck to win the second running of the $100,000 Say...

By David Joseph —- Bellavais; Kenny Martin Photo Bellavais Rides Rail to Victory in $150,000 Marshua’s River (G3) Jockey Castellano Sweeps Graded Turf Stakes on Saturday Program HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Bortolazzo Stable’s Bellavais, already a multiple stakes winner, shot...

By Mike Willman — DANUSKA’S MY GIRL Benoit Photo DANUSKA’S MY GIRL BATTLES BACK TO TAKE $59,000 SANTA ANITA ALLOWANCE FEATURE BY THREE QUARTERS OF A LENGTH AS FRANCO & HOLLENDORFER TEAM FOR MILE WIN IN 1:38.81 ARCADIA, Calif. (Jan. 11, 2019)—In an extra game effort,...

By Keith McCalmont —- OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Lawrence Goichman’s homebred Kathryn the Wise, with a powerful front-running performance, proved much the best in Saturday’s $100,000 La Verdad at Aqueduct Racetrack. Breaking alertly under Manny Franco for...

By David Joseph —- Boxwood; Lauren King Photo Boxwood Goes the Distance in $100,000 Ginger Brew Fancy Dress Party Stays Perfect in $75,000 Glitter Woman HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – William L. Pape’s homebred Boxwood, making her season and stakes debut, found her way to the lead...

By Mike Willman —- NEXT SHARES BENOIT PHOTO WITH REPLACEMENT RIDER FRANCO UP, NEXT SHARES IS JUST UP TO WIN GRADE II, $200,000 SAN GABRIEL STAKES BY A NOSE; TRAINED BY BALTAS, WINNER GETS 1 1/8 MILES ON TURF IN 1:48.61 WINNER HEADED TO $7 MILLION PEGASUS WORLD CUP TURF...

By David Joseph —- Mihos; Lauren King Photo Mihos Wins Stakes Debut in Saturday’s Mucho Macho Man Jerkens Trainee Takes First Stakes on Road to Florida Derby HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Centennial Farms’ Mihos rallied off the pace to make his stakes debut a winning one in...

By Ryan Martin —- CONTRIBUTING GIVES BRAD COX THE EXACTA IN PAN ZARETA STAKES NEW ORLEANS (January 5, 2019) – A horse making their first start for a trainer can come with some question marks, but trainer Brad Cox got all the right answers his a pair of new acquisitions ran...