Monrovia a Better Option for Illuminant
ARCADIA, CA – Illuminant easily could be among the entries for Saturday’s Grade 1 Gamely Stakes at Santa Anita, a race she won in 2016.
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Stars Lined Up to Buy Tapwrit
Tapwrit was one of the top sellers of the 2015 Saratoga Selected Yearling sale. The partnership formed to buy Grade 2 winner and Kentucky Derby contender Tapwrit for $1.2 million was at the same time relatively spur of the moment and years in the making.
Read MoreHow the Son of Tapit who Almost Broke the Bank May be About to Hit the Jackpot
Crossing a street can be the simplest of task. It’s usually a quick and uneventful process in the everyday life of people in all corners of the world. Yet on one fateful afternoon in August of 2015, the all-too-routine act of walking from one street to another triggered a chain of events that has taken Aron Wellman and his partners on an amazing journey that just might include a coveted stop at Louisville on the first Saturday in May.
Read MoreWinStar TDN Derby Top 20
Mar. 14 TDN Top 12 Rank: 2 Last Start: 1st, GII Tampa Bay Derby, TAM, Mar. 11 Accomplishments Include: 1st, Pulpit S., GP, Dec. 10 Next Start: Possible for GII Blue Grass S., KEE, Apr. 8 Thoro-Graph sheet, Equineline PPs KY Derby Points: 54
Read MoreCuralina Honored Again as Aiken-Trained Horse of the Year
Dogwood Stable President Cot Campbell described Curalina as “a high-class racehorse” that has “a great future ahead of her as a broodmare” during the 2016 Aiken-Trained Horse of the Year ceremony Sunday. In addition, Campbell reminded the audience at the Aiken Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame and Museum that Curalina had accomplished something “unusual” because […]
Read MoreRoad to the Derby: Tampa Bay Derby Analysis
This looked in part like a rerun of the Sam F. Davis Stakes from four weeks prior, with the second- through fourth-place finishers taking the first three spots. So while TAPWRIT finished first, the big winner may have been Sam Davis winner McCraken, whose form certainly was flattered by Tapwrit.
Read MoreIlluminant Looks Set to Fire Fresh in Wishing Well Stakes
ARCADIA, CA – Illuminant had the makings of a big 2016 season before she was sidelined last summer with back problems. She did not start after winning the Grade 1 Gamely Stakes at Santa Anita last May.
Read MoreEclipse Hits A Rare Stakes Daily Double: Tapwrit Wins Pulpit Stakes In Florida and Lady Valeur Scores In Miss America In Cali
HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Trainer Todd Pletcher added one and possibly two more names to his list of potential Kentucky Derby hopefuls here at Gulfstream Park this winter after Tapwrit and Master Plan finished one-two in Saturday’s $75,000 Pulpit Stakes, a race that was switched from turf to a sloppy main track earlier in the day.
Read MoreCuralina Retired From Racing: Sold As A Broodmare Prospect For $3 Million
Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners’ three-time grade I winner Curalina, a daughter of Curlin, sold for $3 million to Japan’s Shadai Farm. She is one of two mares or racing/broodmare prospects to sell for $3 million or more. Shadai Lands Curalina for $3 Million By: BloodHorse Staff Bred by CASA Farms in Kentucky, Eclipse Thoroughbred and Dogwood […]
Read MoreTapwrit Redeems Himself In Maiden Score
Bridlewood Farm, Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, Robert LaPenta’s Tapwrit vindicated himself after his debut, winning his second start by a head in a Nov. 6 maiden special weight for juveniles at Gulf stream Park West.
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