Empire Excellence
Chester and Mary Broman, Linda Rice and Manny Franco earned top honors from the New York Thoroughbred Breeders Inc. for stellar 2019 seasons. Check out our profiles of each divisional champion.
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Worth The Wait
The team from Spendthrift Farm felt fairly optimistic heading into the 2015 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New York-bred yearling sale, even though the Kentucky operation dispatched just one member of that year’s crop to the strongest regional market in the United States.
Connection Continues
Make way Fourstar Crook, Lubash, King Kreesa, Kharafa and the like of ultra-consistent turf runners produced by the New York breeding program, there’s a new member of the club who took it up another level in 2019.
The Monday Special – April 13
It isn’t often a $150,000 stakes attracts seven graded stakes winners or graded-placed horses, but that’s exactly what the Oaklawn Mile did Saturday, including two Grade 1 winners.
The Saturday Special – April 11
Another week in captivity, quarantine, isolation, stay-at-home, shelter-in-place, whatever you want to call it and another Saturday of racing – albeit quite limited – to provide a distraction from homeschooling, unfinished to-do lists and recycling all those beer cans, wine bottles and to-go containers.
Model of consistency
A cursory look at the past performances could lead one to believe the proverbial light went on for Pauseforthecause, who reeled off three consecutive convincing wins after going 0-for-6 to start 2019. And while those three running lines, which include her two best speed figures, stand out, her efforts to that point indicate it was only a matter of time before she smiled for the camera.
NY Chaplaincy launches matching gift campaign
The New York Race Track Chaplaincy of America has launched a matching gift drive for its food pantry that will benefit backstretch workers at Belmont Park as they deal with the many challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic.
Throwback Thursday – April 9
The New York Racing Association delayed the opening of Saratoga Race Course’s Oklahoma Training Track Wednesday. The news did not come as a surprise, with New York ravaged by thousands of cases of coronavirus and little movement on the racing front since Aqueduct suspended racing indefinitely March 19.
Quick Success
You couldn’t blame John Sakkos and his Beach Haven Thoroughbreds partners for wondering what’s so hard about this horse racing game. Beach Haven, a syndicate formed in 2017, has raced three horses who have combined for nine wins, six seconds and a third in 21 starts. That’s a 43-percent win and 76-percent on-the-board rate.
Unexpected Returns
Marshall Gramm and Clay Sanders didn’t expect too much when they sent Critical Value to Jeremiah Englehart’s string at Saratoga Race Course last spring.
