American Pharoah headlines lucrative Monmouth card

Sat Aug 01 2015Ted Black

Thoroughbred racing fans had been waiting 37 years for a horse such as American Pharoah to end the prolonged Triple Crown drought during the spring, but they will not have to wait nearly that long to see the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stak ...
Saturday's notable 2-year-old maidens: 7th at Del Mar

Sat Aug 01 2015Kellie Reilly

Del Mar's 7TH race , 5 1/2 furlongs for fillies (8:10 p.m. EDT) Several of these maidens are nominated to the Del Mar Debutante (G1). One Last Shot doesn't have a $230,000 catalog page, but she commanded that amount at OBS April after dril ...
Gio Ponti has a Most Inspiring juvenile to follow

Fri Jul 31 2015Kellie Reilly

Future Hall of Famer Gio Ponti -- surely he'll get in as a triple Eclipse Award winner with a bankroll in excess of $6 million -- might have sired a pretty good one in his very first crop. Debutante Most Inspiring became her sire's first North Ame ...
TwinSpires Horse Racing Podcast with Derek Simon

Fri Jul 31 2015Derek Simon

TwinSpires' Derek Simon turns "Mythbuster" as he consumes a carbonated water beverage during the show in an effort to see whether it has the intoxicatiing powers claimed by jockey Kent Desormeaux. In the Racing History segment, Derek revis ...
Saturday's notable 2-year-old maidens: 2nd at Saratoga

Fri Jul 31 2015Kellie Reilly

Saratoga's 2ND race , 6 furlongs (1:35 p.m. EDT) Conquest Nitro was a fast-finishing second in his Woodbine debut to Riker, subsequently the winner of the Colin. The Mark Casse trainee is by High Cotton, sire of such noted Spa juveniles as Cur ...
Smart Transition takes Curlin but Gangster steals the show

Fri Jul 31 2015Jen Caldwell

The feature event at Saratoga on Friday was the $100,000 Curlin S. , which featured both Stanford and Tekton. However, Smart Transition proved better than those two, and everyone else, when drawing off in the 1 1/8-mile contest by 4 3/4 lengths. ...

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Daughter of Rachel Alexandra to debut at Saratoga

Fri Jul 31 2015Vance Hanson

Rachel's Valentina will be the first starter produced by 2009 Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra when she takes to the track for Sunday's second race at Saratoga, an $83,000 maiden special weight for two-year-old fillies at six furlongs. Rachel ...
Can Untapable revive her fortunes in Shuvee?

Fri Jul 31 2015Vance Hanson

After dominating her contemporaries at three, Untapable has not looked so imposing this year losing twice in three appearances. The Steve Asmussen-trained champion will attempt to revive her old form before the Saratoga masses Sunday when she heads ...
Monmouth Sunday

Fri Jul 31 2015D.S. Williamson

Without a doubt, American Pharoah is whom everybody will want to see this Sunday. But the rest of the Monmouth card on Sunday is loaded with terrific graded stakes action. It also looks like Pharoah is going to have to earn it if he wishes to take ho ...
All Quarter Horse Card Saturday at Indiana Grand Race Course

Fri Jul 31 2015

Indiana Grand in Shelbyville, Indiana runs a mixed meet from April through October, but will host the third of their six All Quarter Horse cards this Saturday, August 1. There will be nine races, including four stakes and with full fields, the bett ...
Protonico's back in action on Haskell undercard

Thu Jul 30 2015Kellie Reilly

In the lead-up to American Pharoah in the Haskell Invitational (G1), Monmouth Park will offer five stakes on Sunday's undercard. The $200,000 Monmouth Cup (G2) marks the return of Protonico . After emerging as a major player in the older male d ...
Beholder vs. Warren’s Veneda – Take 2

Thu Jul 30 2015Jen Caldwell

Nine fillies and mares were entered in Saturday’s Clement L. Hirsch S. (G1) at Del Mar, but most attention will be focused on Beholder and Warren’s Veneda in the 1 1/16-mile contest. Following the latter’s 7 1/4-length romp in the Santa Margarit ...
ON POINT: American Pharoah returns in Haskell at Monmouth Park

Thu Jul 30 2015TwinSpires Staff

Published on July 30 American Pharoah returns in the Haskell Stakes on Sunday at Monmouth Park & even hardened degenerates Ed DeRosa & James Scully are looking forward to seeing the Triple Crown champion back in action at 1-to-10: ...