At the Ripe Old Age of 4, A Colt Keeps Improving
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By insisting that the racehorse he owns a share in continues to compete, Ron Bamberger is giving racing enthusiasts a rare treat: seeing a horse improve with age.
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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 Afrashad was entered in yesterday's James B. Moseley Sprint Handicap at Suffolk Downs, his handlers weren't sure what to expect. It was just the 5-year-old thoroughbred's second race back since having a bone chip taken out of his knee last fall. On Aug. 13 at Saratoga, he ran fourth in his only outing before heading here.
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The watchmaker is growing efficiently through acquisition and expansion.
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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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Another round of good results brings another boost in the stock price.
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He is brooding, intense and a natural. This Bollywood dark horse is a winner
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A year after winning a record four Breeders&#39; Cup races, trainer Richard Mandella is back with only one chance. That chance, though, is with Pleasantly Perfect, who will try to become the second horse to win
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One undervalued drug developer may be on the cusp of greatness.
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From a gentles creature, a lesson in ferocious tenacity.
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Racetrackers are supposed to bet with their heads, not with their hearts. But the tale of 87-year-old horse owner Harry Aleo has to elicit a rooting interest from even the most hardened of railbirds. His speedy gelding, Smokey Stover, goes postward as the 7-2 morning-line second choice in Saturday's $2 million Breeders' Cup Sprint at Monmouth Park.
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Orrin Phipps is holding his own as a driver at Plainridge Racecourse, with four wins from 27 starts. There's nothing unusual about that, except he's 82 years old.
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SINCE only the late Sam Snead won more golf tournaments after he turned 40 - the American won 17 times while the Fijian has already claimed 11 victories in 16 months since he reached the same age - itâs fair to speculate Vijay Singh knows more about how
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Beyond improvement in its biannual results, a more intriguing Rio Tinto story develops.
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A Massachusetts man has combined two of his passions â-horoughbred horse racing and the Boston Red Sox â -naming a recently purchased 1-year-old colt Curse Reversed.
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Jerry Bailey greeted the shift of the champion mare Azeri to the $4 million Breeders&#39; Cup Classic as a double shot of good news.
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ELMONT, N.Y. -- Finally. Ultimately, if not decisively. After 102 years, a filly has won the Belmont Stakes.