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Santa Anita Release —- WELL-ACCOMPLISHED LAURA’S LIGHT HEADS SOLID FIELD OF NINE SOPHOMORE FILLIES IN SATURDAY’S GRADE III, $100,000 HONEYMOON STAKES AT 1 1/8 MILES ON TURF ARCADIA, Calif. (May 27, 2020)—In what appears to be an outstanding betting race, Gary Barber’s...

By Mike Willman —- Bellafina; Benoit Photos ARCADIA, Calif. (May 14, 2020)—Although well beaten on April 25, three-time Grade I winner Bellafina heads a group of eight fillies and mares going six furlongs in Sunday’s Grade III, $100,000 Desert Stormer Stakes at Santa Anita....

By Jennifer Hoyt —- KJ’s Nobility; Oaklawn Park Photos HOT SPRINGS, AR (Wednesday, April 29, 2020) – Trainer Cecil Borel has a chance to go out a winner – maybe this time for good – when he sends out 5-2 program favorite K J’s Nobility against 10 scheduled rivals in...

By Jennifer Hoyt —- British Idiom; Oaklawn Park Photos CHAMPION BRITISH IDIOM AMONG 14 ENTERED IN FANTASY HOT SPRINGS, AR (Wednesday, April 29, 2020) – Horses from all parts of the country converging for Friday’s ninth race at Oaklawn isn’t a fantasy. It is the Fantasy, a...

By Jennifer Hoyt —- ZAINO BOYZ LEADS FRIDAY’S RAINBOW STAKES HOT SPRINGS, AR (Thursday, April 16, 2020) – The accomplished Zaino Boyz is the 8-5 program favorite for the $100,000 Rainbow Stakes for Arkansas-bred 3-year-olds Friday at Oaklawn. Probable post time for the...

By David Joseph —- Zulu Alpha Back for More in $200,000 Pan American (G2) Among 10 Stakes, Six Graded, Worth $1.825 Million March 28 HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Even if it wasn’t in the original plans, the connections for claimer-turned-Grade 1-winning multi-millionaire Zulu...

By Najja Thompson —- OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Set to make her first of the year, Stoneway Farm’s stakes-winning homebred Cofactor will headline a talented field of five in Saturday’s $100,000 Cicada for 3-year-old fillies going six furlongs at Aqueduct...

By Mike Willman —- COMEBACKERS CISTRON & BOUND FOR NOWHERE HEAD SATURDAY’S GRADE III, $100,000 SAN SIMEON STAKES AT 5 ½ FURLONGS ON TURF ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR MARCH 14, RACE IS PART OF NINE-RACE CARD WITH 12:30 P.M. POST ARCADIA, Calif. (March 18, 2020)—A pair of...

By Joe Kristufek —- Finite; Hodges Photography FINITE EYES SIXTH STRAIGHT WIN IN FAIR GROUNDS OAKS Already the leader with 70, Winchell homebred looks to pad her Kentucky Oaks’ points total New Orleans (March 16, 2020) – Heading into her expected start in Saturday’s...

By Grant LaGrange —- Full field of 14 also includes Risen Star division two winner Modernist New Orleans (March 15, 2020) – John Oxley’s Enforceable, who won the LeComte (G3) in advance of a second place run behind the recently sidelined Mr. Monomoy in the first division of...