Breeders’ Cup: Visits along the road 2
Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup World Championship card at Santa Anita features the biggest names in Thoroughbred racing – horses, owners, trainers, jockeys, national, worldwide and so on.
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Breeders’ Cup: Visits along the road
You cross plenty of paths in Thoroughbred racing. From Saratoga to Laurel to Belmont to Keeneland to the odd steeplechase meet.
Breeders’ Cup: Team Valor’s troops
Trainer Rick Mettee calls Brujo de Olleros aggressive, which figures given the horse’s reputation as a former South American phenom, ballyhooed import and key player in Friday’s Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile at Santa Anita.
Breeders’ Cup: Qushchi takes her shot
It’s a little tough to pass on taking a shot at the Breeders’ Cup when your two winners were 46-1 and 27-1.
Steeplechase Handicapping: On to Aiken
Aiken already? The weather is getting cold and, like the geese, the jump circuit is heading south. Saturday’s five-race card at Aiken in South Carolina starts the final month of the season and offers a fitting reboot after the fireworks of last weekend.
Divine Result: Sheppard vet gets Grade 1
One. Just one. He deserved one. Divine Fortune finished second in the Grand National, the Iroquois (twice) and the Colonial Cup (twice). He fell at the last fence of the Turf Writers – while battling for the lead.
A Million Reasons: Maryland’s day delivers again
Where to start. The Maryland Million delivered again – with Eighttofasttocatch and Roadhog taking the big ones. Results like that are why people go to the races.
Grand National at Far Hills anybody’s race
Paddy Young and Willie McCarthy ride in Saturday’s Grand National, a $250,000 Grade 1 steeplechase, headliner of the card at the Far Hills Races and the richest jump race in North America. And came up with the same conclusion.
Steeplechase Handicapping: Here are your tips
Bleary-eyed yet? The TIHR crew is. Been a bit busy around here with 23 articles, photo galleries and blog entries posted on the site since Monday. Not counting this one, and probably a few more by Saturday.
Turf War: Maryland Million showcases tough group
“That’s a massive animal she’s on.” Trainer Jonathan Sheppard – who should know – said that about Roadhog and trainer/exercise rider Lizzie Merryman the other day at Fair Hill. And Sheppard didn’t even see the biggest horse in Saturday’s Maryland Million Turf, another Fair Hill-based runner Change Of Command.
