James Toner has trained some fantastic turf fillies for Phillips Racing Partnership over the years, including Wonder Again, namesake of Sunday’s $200,000 feature at Belmont Park. Appropriately enough, those same connections were represented by the victorious Time and Motion, who is advertising...
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Time and Motion’s a most fitting winner of Wonder Again
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Posted Sunday, June 5
‘There’s something very special about’ Beholder
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Posted Sunday, June 5
Trainer Richard Mandella summed it up pretty good Saturday afternoon at Santa Anita Park. “Good horses come along, and there are a few great ones, but to be great and stay great, it really is special. There’s something very special about her.” That in regards to Beholder, who had just recorded...
Stewart: maiden winners Forever d’Oro and Seeking the Soul training forwardly for Belmont
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Posted Sunday, June 5
Edited Press Release Trainer Dallas Stewart reported that recent maiden winners Forever d'Oro and Seeking the Soul have been training forwardly ahead of their stakes debuts in the $1.5 million Belmont Stakes (G1) on June 11. Separated by little more than 700 miles and just shy of an hour, Charles...
Top Scores At $27, $25, And $33 Show Payoff; H2W Nabs 44-Percent Across-The-Board Average
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Posted Saturday, June 4
Generally, the public was in fine fettle this weekend playing our features, which produced results that made chalk players happy. However, some popular choices certainly deserved to deliver mere pennies to winning players. We nailed one solid-cold exactor in a feature where we agreed with the...
Beholder sails home easiest of winners in Vanity Mile
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Posted Saturday, June 4
Three-time champion Beholder found herself in a familiar spot on Saturday – the Santa Anita Park winner’s circle – after yet another effortless win, this time in the $400,000 Vanity Mile (G1). Making just her second start of the year, the popular bay mare was sent off the prohibitive 1-5 favorite...
Midnight Storm gets his Shoemaker Mile
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Posted Saturday, June 4
Beaten a half-length here last year after a bobbling start took him out of his rhythm, Midnight Storm made no mistake with a front-running verdict in Saturday’s $400,345 Shoemaker Mile (G1) at Santa Anita. Aside from the Grade 1 coup for his resume as a stallion prospect, the Phil D’Amato charge...
Catch a Glimpse shakes loose from the boys in Penn Mile
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Posted Saturday, June 4
Escaping injury in the evening's first race when his mount fell after clipping heels, jockey Florent Geroux came back to win two stakes at Penn National Saturday night, including the featured $500,000 Penn Mile (G3) aboard Canadian Horse of the Year Catch a Glimpse. The only filly in a field of...
Alsvid defends Aristides title at Churchill Downs
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Posted Saturday, June 4
Alsvid was trying for back-to-back wins in Saturday’s $100,000 Aristides (G3) at Churchill Downs, and the Chris Hartman trainee became just the second two-time winner of the race when holding by a head on the wire. Jockey Chris Landeros sent Alsvid from the very start, and the Officer gelding...
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