#US RACING – BREEDERS’ CUP: Improbable is the 5-2 favourite for Breeders' Cup Classic, Authentic at 6-1
Improbable has drawn the No. 8 post position for the Breeders' Cup Classic and is the 5-2 morning line favourite for the marquee race of the season-ending World Championships at Keeneland. One of three Bob Baffert-trained entries in the US$6 million race for 3-year-olds and up, Improbable will have Irad Ortiz Jr aboard and enters […]
#US RACING: California stewards hear case involving Justify's 2018 drug test
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Stewards at Santa Anita listened to hours of testimony Thursday (Oct 29) on Triple Crown winner Justify's post-race drug test after the 2018 Santa Anita Derby, with attorneys for the horse's connections arguing that the California Horse Racing Board has no authority or basis to reopen the closed matter. The CHRB […]
#US RACING: Breeders' Cup Classic may feature Triple Crown race winners
Kentucky Derby winner Authentic heads a field of 11 horses, possibly including filly and Preakness winner Swiss Skydiver against males, for the Breeders' Cup Classic, with trainer Bob Baffert entering three horses in the US$6 million race that includes Belmont winner Tiz the Law. Besides Authentic, second to Swiss Skydiver in the Preakness, Baffert has […]
#AUSTRALIAN RACING: Melbourne Cup to go ahead, but without spectators
MELBOURNE, Australia (AFP) - Australia's Melbourne Cup horse race will go ahead next month but without crowds due to coronavirus restrictions, organisers said on Sunday, dealing the event a major blow. First run in 1861, it is a cultural institution and up to 100,000 well-dressed punters usually flock to Flemington, with boozy parties held nationwide […]
#JAPAN RACING: Contrail Lands Japanese Triple Crown Sweep – watch video replay
Contrail made history on several fronts and raised expectations to new heights with a hard-fought victory Oct. 25 in the Kikuka Sho (Japanese St. Leger, G1) at Kyoto Racecourse. The Deep Impact colt became the eighth Japanese Triple Crown winner but the first to do so undefeated. The victory also completed the first father-son sweep […]
#US RACING: Another horse in trainer Bob Baffert's stable draws a positive test
A filly trained by two-time Triple Crown winner Bob Baffert has tested positive in a post race drug test for the second time this year, making it the third positive test by a horse in Baffert's stable in the last six months. Craig Robertson, Baffert's attorney, issued a statement confirming Gamine's test results after her […]
#US RACING: Fired Belmont worker's retaliation led horse to die
ELMONT, New York - (AP) — A backstretch worker at New York's Belmont Park caused the death of a US$200,000 racehorse by releasing the filly onto blacktop in retaliation for being fired, where she fell and broke her leg, prosecutors said Thursday. Ramzan Antooa, 38, released the 2-year-old filly named Pasta from her stall July […]
AUSTRALIAN RACING: Top trainer faces trial for cheating, cruelty
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) - Melbourne Cup-winning Australian trainer Darren Weir was committed to stand trial Monday on animal cruelty and conspiracy to defraud charges stemming from the 2018 spring racing carnival. A magistrate ruled there was enough evidence for a jury to decide whether Weir, his former assistant Jarrod McLean and stable hand Tyson Kermond […]
#UK RACING: Prolific Grade One winner Ghaiyyath retired to stud
Ghaiyyath, the best ever son of Dubawi who put up not one, not two, but three of the four best performances of any racehorse in the world this year, has been retired from racing and will stand at Kildangan Stud next year. He retires with four Group 1 victories to his name, three of which […]
#US RACING: Video replays of the nine -race card at Gulfstream West (Sunday, October 18, 2020)
KINGSTON, Jamaica - KINGSTON, Jamaica - Quickgallop.com offers its readers the opportunity to watch replays of the eight races run at Gulfstream Park West today, Sunday, October 18, 2020. WATCH AND ENJOY!