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Eclipse in Search of Next Stable Stars as 2 Year-Old Auction Season Ramps Up
With the private market becoming more and more difficult to penetrate, the public auctions have become a more important and viable source of scouting and acquiring high caliber racehorses.
Read MoreEclipse Weekend Action Headlined by Return of Amira’s Prince in G1, $300,000 ‘Gulf Turf’ Cap
Battier will make his West Coast debut on Friday, February 7, in the sixth race at Santa Anita Park, the Great Race Place. Battier, a four-year-old Tale of the Cat colt, joined the Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners stable in April of last year. Since that time, he has run in eight stakes races.
Read MoreEclipse Has a 2-Bagger at Santa Anita with Pair of Euro Filly Future Stars
Bee Brave, a 4-year-old daughter of Rail Link, was brought up perfectly for this race by Simon Callaghan. Not having run since August of 2012, Callaghan had put a solid foundation underneath her. Bee Brave trailed the field for the first three-quarters of a mile before coming four wide into the stretch and exploding past the field winning by one and a quarter lengths.
Read MoreEclipse Sends Out 6 Fillies this Weekend from the Gulf to the Great Race Place
Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners has a busy weekend ahead. On Friday, Mythic, a winner at Gulfstream Park on December 26, will reappear in a starter allowance over the same surface.
Read MoreEclipse Program to Provide No Cost Mammography Screenings at Turfway Park On December 27th
Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners’ Expanded Charitable Partnership with the Susan G. Komen Greater Cincinnati Affiliate Brings No-Cost Mammography Screening Services to Turfway Park on December 27th.
Read MoreEclipse Proud To Support Saratoga WarHorse
It has only been in recent years that our society has recognized post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in combat military personnel returning home from war and anyone else exposed to an extreme traumatic event that has altered their life. Going back to World War I, this disorder was trivialized with the term shell shock.
Read MoreBajan Comes from Off Pace to Take Moccasin Stakes
INGLEWOOD, CA – Bajan is making victories in sprint stakes look easy this fall. Bajan, ridden by Victor Espinoza, defeats For Emma in the $100,000 Moccasin Stakes on Saturday.
Read MoreCapo Bastone Returns to So Cal for Breeders’ Cup Tilt
Capo Bastone has drawn post 9 of 14 horses set to do battle over 6 1/2-furlongs on turf for a purse of $1 million. Joel Rosario will reunite with the son of Street Boss, who has been installed at 8-1 on the morning line in which the co-favorites are posted at a tepid 5-1.
Read MoreKeeneland: Silsita, Lighthouse Bay Among Intriguing Raven Run Contenders
LEXINGTON, KY – Silsita and Lighthouse Bay both have had eight career starts that yielded a few bang-up efforts. For Silsita, her best race probably came when she won the Grade 3 Bourbonette Oaks at Turfway Park in her lone start over a synthetic track. For Lighthouse Bay, it was her 21-1 upset in the Grade 1 Prioress over the main track at Saratoga.
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