The summer is really starting to heat up and so is the Eclipse stable with a potentially monster weekend on tap as 10 runners are slated for action this weekend, including a trio of major Stakes engagements at Saratoga. Opening week at Saratoga proved fruitful for the baby blue and black as Jumby Bay (right) […]
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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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Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners’ multiple grade one winner Curalina has caused plenty of excitement in her nine-race career. But that’s to be expected from the 4-year-old daughter of Curlin, who was bred in Kentucky by Susan Atkins’ CASA Farms, because the excitement of Thoroughbred racing is what actually inspired her creation.
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Click the link below: Bloodhorse: Bright Spot Illuminant wins Santa Anita’s Gamely
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Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners’ Illuminant got the jump on heavily favored Wekeela on the far turn and pulled away to win the $300,000 Gamely Stakes (gr. IT) May 30 at Santa Anita Park.
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ELMONT, N.Y. – Todd Pletcher has participated in 12 runnings of the Belmont Stakes, and five times he has run more than one horse in the third leg of the Triple Crown. There’s a strong possibility he’ll run two horses in the 147th Belmont Stakes on June 11.
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Aron Wellman admits he is approaching this season with something to prove. The president of Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners felt more than a little slighted when the group’s multiple Grade I-winning filly Curalina was not even a finalist in the Eclipse Award balloting for champion 3-year-old filly of 2015.
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