Barn Notes

By Brian Nadeau —- Wash. Rinse. Repeat. Trainer Calhoun Following Familiar Path to LA. Derby with Run Classic New Orleans (February 19, 2021) – If trainer Bret Calhoun has his way, lightning will strike twice at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots on March 20. Two years...

By David Joseph —- GULFSTREAM TODAY 2.17.21 Javier Castellano ‘Very Motivated’ in Return to Action Thursday’s Rainbow 6 Jackpot Pool Guaranteed at $400,000 Irad Ortiz Jr. Notches Five-Win Day HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Hall of Fame jockey Javier Castellano returned to action...

By David Joseph —- Greatest Honour Gears Up for Fasig-Tipton Fountain of Youth Holy Bull Hero Tops 36 Noms for G2 Triple Crown Prep Feb. 27 HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Courtlandt Farms’ Greatest Honour, who established himself as a prime 2021 Triple Crown prospect with a...

By Mike Henry —- OLDSMAR, FL. – Tickets for Festival Day 41 Presented by Lambholm South on March 6 are being sold on the Tampa Bay Downs website, www.tampabaydowns.com General Admission attendance will be capped at 2,500. Tickets are $15 plus a $2.55 service fee. Picnic...

By Ed Golden —- LIFE IS GOOD BREEZES, FREEDOM FIGHTER TO NY BALTAS HAS THE GRADE II BUENA VISTA IN FOCUS BELLA VISTA RETURNS SUNDAY IN SPRING FEVER WITH FOUR WINS SUNDAY, PRAT NOW AT 995 TOTAL LIFE IS GOOD GOES ‘EXTREMELY WELL’ FOR SAN FELIPE Two of Bob Baffert’s four...

By Mike Henry —- OLDSMAR, FL. – After stepping up in competition on Jan. 23 in the Grade III Fred W. Hooper Stakes at Gulfstream Park, 4-year-old Florida-bred colt Shivaree is set to return to Tampa Bay Downs on Saturday for the $100,000, 6-furlong Pelican Stakes. The Jacks...