Eclipse Bags 2 Wins On Saturday At Saratoga

Hieroglyphics and El Dulce created a magical afternoon for Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners
Read MoreHieroglyphics and El Dulce created a magical afternoon for Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners
Read MoreWhen the name Curalina comes up, Susan Atkins remembers singing a lullaby to a “redhead with a beautiful star on her forehead.” Aron Wellman remembers bidding on a yearling and hoping nobody else saw what he saw under “a little too much baby fat.”
Read MoreGrade 1 winner Illuminant has been retired from racing after she emerged from a recent workout with some minor signs of discomfort, her connections announced July 13.
Read MoreJacob West has joined Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners as the company’s Vice President of Bloodstock. West, 31, has previously worked for Taylor Made as a Buyer Account Manager and most recently served as the Director of Bloodstock for Three Chimneys Farm.
Read MoreThey’ve been together at various times since, at the races or other sales, and gathered again in the basement of Belmont Park last Saturday when that same colt put them in the winner’s circle for the 149th Belmont Stakes.
Read MoreWith Lady Eli, co-owned by Kumin through Sheep Pond Partners, slated for a run in the $300,000 Gamely Stakes (G1T), Illuminant was shifted to the $201,035 Monrovia Stakes (G2T) two races later on the Saturday card.
Read MoreARCADIA, CA – Illuminant easily could be among the entries for Saturday’s Grade 1 Gamely Stakes at Santa Anita, a race she won in 2016.
Read MoreTapwrit 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 MoreCrossing 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 MoreMar. 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
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