Barn Notes

By Ed Golden —- Midnight Storm; All Photos by Zoe Metz Photography • MIDNIGHT STORM, MOR SPIRIT COULD VIE IN BIG ’CAP • WEATHERMAN HOLDS ACES IN BUENA VISTA STAKES • CLOCKERS BUSY WITH 416 WORKERS AT SANTA ANITA • SANTA ANITA JOCKS IN CHARITY GAME NEXT THURSDAY MOR SPIRIT...

By Mike Henry —- OLDSMAR, FL. – Top local sprinters of both sexes and the first day of the seventh annual Golfest demo days and expo event will highlight an action-packed Saturday at Tampa Bay Downs. An 11-race Thoroughbred card features the $100,000 Pelican Stakes for...

By Jennifer Hoyt —- Blue Tone Brings Hess Back to Oaklawn for Second Time Quiet Kim, the first horse trainer Bob Hess Jr. started at Oaklawn, was the favorite for the $250,000 Fantasy Stakes (G2) for 3-year-old fillies in 2006. The odds of the trainer’s second...

By Michael Adolphson —- • O’Neill Invades for More New Orleans Glory • Don’t Split Tens Impressive for Pessin • Salty Sophomore Maidens Highlight Saturday Card • Stidham Impressed by Haniel • Guest Suite Sizzles to Top Work Tab Wrap-Up Trainer Doug O’Neill; Skip...

By Mike Henry —- OLDSMAR, FL. – Jesus Castanon had a good feeling about 3-year-old filly Tapa Tapa Tapa before Saturday’s 37th renewal of the $100,000 Suncoast Stakes. She had breezed five furlongs eight days earlier in 1:01 2/5, and Castanon knew she would be tough to beat...

By Jennifer Hoyt —- Gun Runner Sizzles Gun Runner recorded a 5-furlong bullet (:59.80) over a fast track Monday morning for Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen in preparation for the $500,000 Razorback Handicap (G3). Winner of the $500,000 Clark Handicap (G1) Nov. 25 at...