#US RACING: Belmont Stakes preview
A field of eight 3-year-olds will start in Saturday’s Grade 1, $1.5 million Belmont Stakes. This is the smallest field since 2015, and it is the first time since 2010 that there is no horse to compete in all three legs of the Triple Crown. The field includes five horses that appeared in the Kentucky […]
#US RACING: Baffert suspended by Churchill Downs for two years
Churchill Downs Inc. announced Wednesday (June 2) that trainer Bob Baffert would be suspended for two years after Medina Spirit's Kentucky Derby drug test was confirmed positive by a second laboratory. Following is the statement issued by Churchill Downs: "Churchill Downs Incorporated (“CDI”) announced today the suspension of Bob Baffert for two years effective immediately […]
#US RACING: Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit split sample is positive
Bob Baffert's Kentucky attorney confirmed that the second split sample of 2021 Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit tested positive for a prohibited amount an anti-inflammatory drug. “In response to the inquiries, this will acknowledge that the Medina Spirit split sample confirmed the finding of betamethasone at 25 picograms,” attorney Craig Robertson said in a statement. “There is […]
#US RACING: WATCH TIZ THE LAW WIN THE 2020 BELMONT STAKES
KINGSTON, Jamaica – The US Triple Crown series of races are customarily run in the order of the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes and then the Belmont Stakes. Last year because of COVID-19, the order changed with the Belmont run as the first of the Triple Crown races. The 2021 Belmont Stakes will be run […]
#US RACING: Belmont Stakes runners and draw
Thanks to COVID and maybe an anticlimactic feel to the Triple Crown, it was not the lavish production that previous Belmont Stakes draws have been. Instead of a big lunch at the skating rink at Rockefeller Center or a cocktail party before a Mets game at Citi Field, it was a spartan gathering with pots of coffee […]
#US RACING: Embattled Baffert earns record-tying 8th Gold Cup victory
ARCADIA, Calif. (AP) — Country Grammer edged Royal Ship by a head to win the US$300,000 Hollywood Gold Cup, giving embattled trainer Bob Baffert his record-tying eighth victory in the Grade 1 race at Santa Anita. Baffert tied fellow Hall of Famer Charlie Whittingham, who won his eighth and last Gold Cup with Ferdinand in […]
#US RACING – An early look at the possible Belmont Stakes starters
The likely field for the 2021 Belmont Stakes is narrowing with less than a week to go before Saturday's (June 7) race. Horse Racing Nation's list of potential starters stands at nine probables and one possible. Three horses defected in the last week: Get Her Number, who will run in Monday's Texas Derby at Lone […]
#US RACING: Trainer John Sadler’s charge Flagstaff tests positive
Flagstaff, winner of the May 1 Churchill Downs Stakes (G1) for trainer John Sadler, tested positive for a prohibited Class 1 drug after a race at Santa Anita in September. A complaint by the California Horse Racing Board claims that clodronic acid, a bisphosphonate known as Osphos, was confirmed in a split sample taken after Falstaff […]
#UK RACING: Derby prize money set at £1.125 million with increases to supporting races
The prize money for this year's Cazoo Derby has been set at £1,125,000, with an 11% boost in the prize funds for the 11 non-Group One races, meaning that no contest over the two days will be worth less than £40,000. Jockey Club Racecourses have also announced a boost to the prize money to the 2021 Coral-Eclipse […]
#US RACING: California Horse Racing Board will not suspend Bob Baffert
The California Horse Racing Board said in a Monday statement that it cannot suspend the license of embattled trainer Bob Baffert without due process. The statement also acknowledged the death of a horse in Baffert’s care, Noodles, who died of “non-racing or training-related causes.” View the statement in full below. “The California Horse Racing Board […]