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Tom Law 
Brad Grady and Bobby Dodd team up to buy yearlings in the name Grand Oaks every year to pinhook as 2-year-olds, hoping to turn a profit. The two met in 2011 when Grady, a Texas busisnessman, purchased a horse from Dodd, a longtime and respected horseman from Ocala.
The racing world continues to buzz about Arrogate collecting a major prize and in the most dramatic of fashions to win the $10 million Dubai World Cup over the weekend. Arrogate highlighted a spectacular afternoon of racing and we take a look back as always in our Monday Afternoon Rewind. It’s the good, bad and the ugly. There’s a little of each below, mostly because of our picks.
In 2011, my dad and I bought Bogini as a 2-year-old from Tracey Collins. I was 22, still preparing breezers and didn’t have a trainers license, so we left her in training with Tracey. She won an average maiden for us in Down Royal, which got her a rating in the low 70s, then I brought her home to Millgrove Stud, where I was operating at the time, and gave her the winter off.
As we say most weeks, we’ll take the good, bad, ugly or indifferent as long as we at least get a few winners sprinkled in here and there. Every (most) Monday we look back at last week’s Saturday Special to see if we did uncover any winners and hint at some good stories to come.
Another memorable Cheltenham Festival in the books, St. Patrick’s Day come and gone and an overload of college basketball the last two days present the perfect opportunity to shift attention a bit and soak in some quality racing from here in the U.S. Oaklawn Park and the Rebel Stakes take center stage this week and we’ve got the whole card covered in The Saturday Special presented by Pin Oak Stud.
As mid-February rolls around, love is in the air. Heart-shaped chocolate boxes fly off store shelves, oversized teddy bears stuffed into cars, rose petals littering kitchen countertops as the big day commences. For Thoroughbreds, a similar sense of love is in the air, as Feb. 15 marks Opening Day of the breeding season.
The buzz started before the weekend was through. Snow was on the way to upstate New York, a surprising revelation to some even though we live in, ahem, upstate New York.
Huge weekend on both coasts – Santa Anita Park and Tampa Bay in particular – and this week’s Saturday Special presented by Pin Oak Stud has you covered on the final day before daylight saving time begins.
The final ballot is set and determining the 2017 Hall of Fame class is in the hands of the voters, who will pick this year’s group from 11 finalists announced Wednesday by the National Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame Nominating Committee.
Gunnevera shook up the Triple Crown Trail with his mild upset of Irish War Cry and others in Saturday’s Xpressbet Fountain of Youth at Gulfstream Park, another exciting chapter added to the unbelievable life of his trainer Antonio Sano.
