Barn Notes

By Mike Henry —- OLDSMAR, FL. – After a season in which it hosted the winners of two Triple Crown races and a Breeders’ Cup race, Tampa Bay Downs is set to resume its 2017-2018 racing season with Saturday’s “Opening Day” card. Post time for the first of 10 races is 12:25...

By Darren Rogers —- Dale Romans; Anne M. Eberhardt Photo ROMANS, JONES LOOK TO FUTURE WITH KENTUCKY JOCKEY CLUB PROBABLE TIZ MISCHIEF LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Sunday, Nov. 19, 2017) – Trainer Dale Romans has always described long-term owner Frank Jones Jr. as a “father figure” and...

NYRA RELEASE —- Brown to saddle three contenders in Winter Memories OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Chalk Racing’s Ready for Rye will again make the switch from turf to dirt in the Grade 3, $200,000 Fall Highweight on Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, at Aqueduct Racetrack. For...

DMTC News – From the Wire —- RED CARPET COULD BE PLACE FOR PERUVIAN IMPORT TO STRUT On June 25th at the Hipodromo de Monterrico race track in Lima, Peru, Birdie Gold, a five-year-old Kentucky-bred daughter of Birdstone, won the Grade I Classico Pamplona. Thereby...

By Darren Rogers —- HOPPERTUNITY SET TO ATTEMPT REPEAT BID IN NEXT SATURDAY’S GRADE I, $500,000 CLARK HANDICAP LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Saturday, Nov. 18, 2017) – Mike Pegram, Karl Watson, and Paul Weitman’s Hoppertunity hopes to duplicate his effort from 2014 and become only the...

DMTC News – From the Wire —- MILLER SEEKS GRANT THREE-PEAT WITH SOLID WAGER PLUS TWO Trainer Peter Miller is quite sure that he has never before won the same stakes race with the same horse three years in a row. “I don’t think I’ve ever won three games of tic-tac-toe...