Breeders&#39; field has Marion ties
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The Ocala/Marion County area is widely known in thoroughbred racing circles as a top thoroughbred breeding and training center, but some of its farm owners apparently also like to race the horses produced here.
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Pleasantly Perfect, defending champion in the $4 million Classic, was among 101 horses listed in pre-entries announced yesterday for the 21st edition of the Breeders&#39; Cup World Thoroughbred Championships on Oct.
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GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Azeri will try to beat the boys again, this time in the $4 million Breeders&#39; Cup Classic. Trainer D. Wayne Lukas made the surprise announcement Tuesday, declaring 2002 Horse of the Year
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Horseplayers started the Breeders&#39; Cup with a bang heard round the nation&#39;s betting parlors when Ashado, the unwavering favorite, trounced a smart field to win the $1 million Distaff.
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If you're in search of a heavily favored standout for Saturday's Breeders' Cup Classic, forget it. The richest horse race on the continent drew a highly intriguing and very bettable cast of nine, with the only certainty being that the 1 1/4-mile season-culminating championship at Monmouth Park presents an extremely difficult workload for those seeking its $5 ...
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When Pleasantly Perfect won the Breeders&#39; Cup World Thoroughbred Championship Classic last year, he didn&#39;t have to go very far - the event was held at his home track in Santa Anita.
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When Smarty Jones was retired following the Triple Crown, it took some sizzle out of the racing scene. But one doesn't have to be an insider to appreciate the field for the $4 million Breeders' Cup Classic at Lone Star Park Oct. 30. It may not be the Kentucky Derby, but a field doesn't get any better than this.
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The European contingent for the Breeders&#39; Cup flew into Texas last night to be greeted by increasingly stormy weather and a warning that things could be extremely tough
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Pleasantly Perfect was the early 3-1 favorite Wednesday after pre-entries for the eight-race, $14 million Breeders' Cup at Lone Star Park in Texas on Oct. 30.
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The 21st renewal of the Breeders&#39; Cup Championships will be run this afternoon at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas. The $14 million, eight-race championship has
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There will be a Pick Six carryover into today's Breeders' Cup races.
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Earlier this year, Smarty Jones became the people&#39;s horse with his bid for the Triple Crown, rising from minor-league Philadelphia Park and his small-time owners-breeders, trainer and jockey.
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Thirteen horses were pre-entered yesterday in the Oct. 30 Breeders&#39; Cup Classic, topped by the defending champion, Pleasantly Perfect; Birdstone, the Belmont and Travers winner; Ghostzapper
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Punters and bookmakers alike have been caught on the hop after star American trainer D. Wayne Lukas revealed that Azeri is to tackle the $4m Breeders&#39; Cup Classic in Texas this Saturday.
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PRAIRIE, Texas -- The Breeders&#39; Cup has been something of a mobile house of horrors for trainer Bobby Frankel, but that all changed in two minutes on Saturday.
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Making the morning line is a difficult job, and Lone Star Park oddsmaker Rick Lee did not escape the wrath of trainer D. Wayne Lukas when Lee established the mare Azeri at 15-1 for the Classic during yesterday's post position draw for Saturday's Breeders' Cup. Pleasantly Perfect, the leading candidate to be Horse of the Year, ...
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In a perfect racing world, Suffolk Downs management would like to see the return of a thoroughbred circuit between the East Boston oval and Rockingham Park in Salem, N.H., only on a smaller scale. However, current realities would appear to make that impossible.