On January 14, a three-year-old filly made her first start, at Turfway Park in Kentucky. Beautifully bred, by Empire Maker out of the Storm Cat mare Cat Chat, she was running for a $22,000 purse, and across the country, Aron Wellman was watching.
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Since the powers of summertime racing decided to hold their marquee events for 3-year-old fillies on the same warm August afternoon, why not compare and contrast.
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DEL MAR, CA – With a stakes win over six furlongs on turf at Betfair Hollywood Park in June, Byrama is proven as a sprinter. What remains in question is how effective she can be around two turns. In five starts at a mile or 1 1/8 miles, Byrama is winless, but has placed in […]
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Byrama will be well fancied in Friday night’s running of the $85,000 Sandy Blue Stakes at Del Mar. Seven sophomore fillies will line up to face the starter and traverse the flat-mile circuit of the spinach Where The Turf Meets The Surf. Simon Callaghan will provide a leg up to Garrett Gomez, who will do his best to navigate a beneficial journey from post 2.
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In Lingerie had a trip she and her connections would rather forget when sent off as the 8-5 favorite in last month’s running of the Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks when she checked in a well-beaten third.
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The Eclipse freshman class made a humongous statement this week, winning races on the left coast, the right coast and smack-dab in the center of the country. It was a monster trifecta for the fledging stable, who acquired each of the youngsters via different channels.
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Tara From the Cape gave her backers at the betting windows and her partners just what they were looking for when she obliged at odds of 1-5 to win the $50,000 Thomas “Tuck” Greene Memorial Stakes at Delaware Park on Thursday afternoon by 2 ½ widening lengths to preserve her perfect slate and notch an all-important black-type Stakes win to her docket.
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Flying Rapunzel made the move from start #1 to start #2 Eclipse and trainer Wayne Catalano were hoping to see when she wired a decent field of debutantes with consummate ease Sunday at Arlington Park.
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The summer has arrived and the Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners stable is poised to provide its partners with some serious, big race action in Week 1 of the 2 marquee race meets on the American racing calendar at Saratoga and Del Mar.
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It was the first added-money score for the dark bay son of Proud Citizen-Luvina, trained by Mark Casse and ridden by Eurico Rosa da Silva, who entered the 1 1/8-mile turf tilt off a trio of second-place efforts.
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