GULFSTREAM PARK REPLAY SHOW | SUNDAY, AUGUST 28, 2022
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#US RACING: WATCH EPICENTER WIN THE 2022 TRAVERS STAKES DECISIVELY AT SARATOGA
NOTE - VIDEO REPLAY BELOW ARTICLE Favoured Epicenter stormed down the stretch past his rivals and won the 153rd running of the Travers Stakes at Saratoga Race Course on Saturday (August 27, 2022). The runner-up in both the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, Epicenter, with Joel Rosario aboard, won his second stakes in a month at […]
#US RACING: EPICENTER THE 7-5 FAVOURITE FOR THE TRAVERS STAKES
Epicenter has been installed as the morning-line favorite for the $1.25 million Travers Stakes on Saturday at Saratoga Race Course as he prepares to face the rivals who beat him in the first two legs of the Triple Crown. Winner of the Grade 2 Jim Dandy Stakes just over three weeks ago at Saratoga and […]
#US RACING: JOCKEY JOHN VELAZQUEZ MAKES IT 1000 WINNERS AT SARATOGA
The numbers have never meant much to Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez. The one he got to on Aug. 25 might as he grows older. The 50-year-old Velazquez wrote another chapter in the Saratoga history books when he won his 1,000th career race at Saratoga Race Course. No one has ever won more. It came […]
#US RACING: IRAD ORTIZ JR, JOEL ROSARIO BOTH RECEIVE 3-DAY SUSPENSIONS
The final days of the Saratoga Race Course meet will be a little less hectic for jockeys Irad Ortiz Jr. and Joel Rosario as three-racing-day careless riding suspensions for both riders were announced Aug. 24. Rosario received an Aug. 28-Sept. 1 ban for his ride on Sassy Melissa , who was disqualified from third to fourth in the third […]
#US RACING: SOME FACTS AND FIGURES ON THE 2022 TRAVERS STAKES
The Grade 1, US$1.25 million Travers Stakes drew a field of eight 3-year-olds that will be facing the 1 1/4-mile distance at Saratoga on Saturday August 27, 2022). Epicenter drew post-position No. 6 and was named the 7-5 morning line favorite. Taking a look at the past-performances of this year’s Travers field, you can make a long […]
#US RACING: WATCH ESSENTIAL QUALITY WIN THE 2021 TRAVERS STAKES
GET TO KNOW SEYMOUR BIGGS – TRAINER, OWNER IN CANADA
KINGSTON, Jamaica - SEYMOUR Biggs has never known a life away from horses. He grew up observing his father, Eric Biggs, and other relatives exuding love and passion for horses, and their examples, he thought, were not only worth emulating but surpassing. So he dove head first into racing, earning his groom’s licence in 1985 […]
#US RACING: BOB BAFFERT TESTIFY FOR OVER TWO HOURS AT KENTUCKY RACING COMMISSION
Confronted by his own words in the days after Medina Spirit failed a drug test 15 months ago, Bob Baffert was asked again and again by a Kentucky Horse Racing Commission lawyer Monday whether he still thought it was “stupid” and “a mistake” to give betamethasone to a horse the day before the Kentucky Derby. “I won’t […]