The horse that changed the world – Secretariat at 50
Like dogwoods in bloom, Secretariat arrived on the penultimate day of March in 1970. We would not know it for a few years, but America was getting a hero just when it most needed one. He has been gone longer than he lived, but can Secretariat really be 50? Big Red, as he would be […]
Bajan trainer Saffie Joseph Jr notches 38th win of Gulfstream Park season
HALLANDALE BEACH, Florida, (CMC) — Favourite Miz Chaplin produced a front-running win on Friday’s (March 27) 11-race card at Gulfstream Park to hand Barbadian trainer Saffie Joseph Jr his 38th win of the season. The three-year-old roan filly, underneath Panamanian Luis Saez, captured race two on the 11-race card, beating the three-year-old fillies by 3 […]
Santa Anita Park ceases racing on Health Department mandate
Shortly before post time Friday at Santa Anita Park, the Arcadia, Calif., track issued the following statement indicating racing is off, but with no specified timeline for its return. The decision leaves Gulfstream Park and Tampa Bay Downs in Florida, Golden Gate Fields in northern California and Oaklawn Park in Arkansas as the only Thoroughbred […]
US RACING: Javier Castellano tests positive for COVID-19
In the first diagnosis made public for a big-name American jockey, Hall of Famer Javier Castellano has tested positive for COVID-19, his agent announced Thursday. John Panagot said in a post to his Twitter account Castellano was tested on Tuesday after Gulfstream Park mandated he take a physical. The results returned Thursday morning. "Javier is […]
HONG KONG RACING: Golden Sixty triumphs in Derby
Golden Sixty and Vincent Ho announced themselves as one of world racing’s most influential new power couples with a stunning success in the BMW Hong Kong Derby on Sunday (March 22). Hong Kong’s most famous race was played out to empty Sha Tin grandstands as fears about a second wave of COVID-19 infections reduced the […]
US RACING: Wells Bayou gets home in Louisiana Derby
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — As Wells Bayou completed a wire-to-wire victory in the US$1-million Louisiana Derby there was hardly a cheer to be heard — other than the isolated triumphant shouts of trainer Brad Cox and his stable crew. In the 107th running of the qualifying points race for the Kentucky Derby on Saturday last […]
US RACING: Jamaican Shaun Bridgmohan wins US300,000 Muniz Memorial
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, (CMC) – Jamaican jockey Shaun Bridgmohan produced a dominant front-running effort aboard 9-1 choice Factor This to win the US$300,000 Grade 2 Muniz Memorial Classic Stakes at Fair Grounds here on Saturday last (March 21). Going a mile and an eighth for four-year-olds and upwards in race 10, Bridgmohan set a brisk […]
US RACING: Florida Derby in doubt because of COVID-19
In the wake of a Broward County ban on conducting non-essential business amid the coronavirus pandemic, and a subsequent request to close by the city of Hallandale Beach, Fla., Gulfstream Park plans to race on. With the track's signature Florida Derby (G1) set for Saturday, a new South Florida Sun-Sentinel report indicates Gulfstream has threatened […]
Marble Race
Marble race – listen to the commentator KINGSTON, Jamaica – With racing across the world curtailed by COVID-19, Quickgallop.com found this video featuring a marble race and was intrigued by the quality description done by the commentator. View and enjoy.
US RACING: Horse racing grapples with risks of running during pandemic
Horse racing is quickly learning it is not totally immune to the effects the coronavirus pandemic has had on other sports, and now it's grappling with the risks of continuing operations. The Louisiana Derby for now is still set for Saturday, the world's richest day of races is scheduled to go on in late March […]