Bob Hill – Handicapping

By Robert Yates —- Early Oaklawn Success Helps Cox Reach the Top In the early spring of 2016, Livia Frazar was asked where she saw her husband’s training career in five years. That trainer, then an up and comer obsessed with horses, was Brad Cox. “I see him at the top,” she...

By David Joseph —- Photos by Lauren King Phantom Currency Wires $200,000 Mac Diarmida (G2) Field Gelding Goes the Distance to Notch First Career Stakes Victory HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Susan and Jim Hill’s Phantom Currency notched his first career stakes victory in...

By Mike Henry —- OLDSMAR, FL. – To many observers, 5-year-old gelding Quality Step has made it look easy in the Males Division of the Tampa Turf Test. He made it 3-for-3 in the starter handicap series, winning today’s 1 1/8-mile leg by three-quarters of a length from...

By Jennifer Hoyt —- Photos By Coady Photography HOT SPRINGS, AR (Saturday, Feb. 27, 2021) – Godolphin, LLC’s Mystic Guide, making his 4-year-old debut, made a sweeping move around the turn and drew away to a sixth-length victory in Saturday’s $600,000 Razorback Handicap...

By David Joseph —- Greatest Honour Registers Gutsy Win in G2 Fountain of Youth HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Courtlandt Farms’ Greatest Honour wove his way through traffic before unleashing an impressive kick in the stretch to capture Saturday’s $300,000 Fasig-Tipton Fountain of...

By Jennifer Hoyt —- Photos By Coady Photography HOT SPRINGS, AR (Saturday, Feb. 27, 2021) – Reigning Two-Year-Old Champion Essential Quality capped a huge day for owner Godolphin, LLC with an impressive victory in Saturday’s $750,000 Southwest Stakes (G3), his 3-year-old...

By David Joseph —- Photo by Janet Garaguso Champion Filly Vequist Returns to Action in $200,000 Davona Dale (G2) Among Nine Stakes Worth $1.475 Million on Fountain of Youth Day Program HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Gary Barber, Wachtel Stable and Swilcan Stable’s Vequist, the...

By David Joseph —– GULFSTREAM TODAY 2.25.21 Castellano Back in Gulfstream Park Winner’s Circle Friday’s Rainbow 6 Jackpot Pool Guaranteed at $400,000 HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Hall of Famer Javier Castellano made a welcome return to the Gulfstream Park winner’s circle...

By Robert Yates —- It was championship Thursday at Oaklawn as Eclipse Award-winning trainer Brad Cox sent his two Eclipse Award winners, Monomoy Girl and Essential Quality, to the track to train in preparation for weekend stakes engagements. Cox said Monomoy Girl and...