Time Off for Illuminant
Illuminant (Quality Road), last seen capturing Santa Anita’s GI Gamely S. May 30, is currently getting a freshening at Bluewater Farm in Lexington, Kentucky.
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Comfort by a Nose in Seattle Slew Stakes
ELMONT, N.Y. – For the bettors who pounded him to 2-5 favoritism, that was too close for Comfort. Comfort, with John Velazquez aboard, gets up just in time to win the Seattle Slew Stakes on Saturday. Comfort needed every inch of the 1,097-foot Belmont Park stretch to get up, ultimately running past Touchofstarquality in the final jump to win Saturday’s $100,000 Seattle Slew Stakes by a nose at steamy Belmont Park.
Read MoreComfort’s Stock on Rise Entering Seattle Slew Stakes
ELMONT, N.Y. – When they met two months ago in the State Dinner Stakes here, Touchofstarquality was favored over Comfort but proved no match for that rival, losing by 3 1/2 lengths. On Saturday, when they meet again in the $100,000 Seattle Slew Stakes on the first Saturday of the Belmont Park fall meet, Comfort will be regarded as the horse to beat in the five-horse field set to go 1 1/16 miles over the main track.
Read MoreShowdown of Fab Five in Personal Ensign
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The Grade 1 Personal Ensign at Saratoga on Saturday drew a field of five. But they are the right five and difficult to separate.
Read MoreDestin Best in Travers?
Todd Pletcher’s once seemingly powerful army of 3-year-olds has pretty much disbanded, with some of the troops retreating from the battlefield, others spending time in sick bay, and two transferred to another outfit.
Read MoreComfort Going After the Big Boys in Whitney
Comfort himself is hot, having won his two starts this year and three straight dating back to last November. But even Wellman said that Comfort will be taking “a colossal step up in class” against the likes of Grade 1 winners Frosted, Effinex, and Noble Bird in the Whitney.
Read MoreEclipse Supports First-Crop Sires
Eclipse Thoroughbreds’ Aron Wellman took home one of the higher priced yearlings sold during the early part of Tuesday’s session when signing the ticket on a $235,000 filly from the first crop of Violence (Hip 61).
Read MoreComfort Runs Down Touchofstarquality in State Dinner Stakes
ELMONT, N.Y. – Touchofstarquality was not quite ready for his close-up Monday at Belmont Park as Comfort ran by him in the final sixteenth of a mile to win the $100,000 State Dinner Stakes by 3 1/4 lengths.
Read MoreEclipse Founder & President Aron Wellman Elected To Breeders’ Cup Board
LEXINGTON, KY – (June 15, 2016) – The Breeders’ Cup announced today that 19 individuals have won election to serve as Breeders’ Cup Members. Voting by Breeders’ Cup foal and stallion nominators was concluded at 5:00 p.m. ET on June 13. The election results are expected to be ratified by the current Breeders’ Cup Members at the annual meeting on July 13.
Read MoreEclipse Runners Curalina and Destin Play Starring Role On The Big Stage
ELMONT, N.Y. – Leadership within the East Coast filly-and-mare handicap division will be decided at Belmont Park on Saturday, when Curalina, Stopchargingmaria, Sheer Drama, and Forever Unbridled top a field of seven in the $1 million Ogden Phipps. The Grade 1 fixture will be run at 1 1/16 miles.
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