Jumpers find path to new careers, success
Sometimes, the best thing about jump racing isn’t really the jumps, or even the racing. It’s where the horses come from, their pasts, their stories.
Maya Charli scores Atlanta stakes win
Kingfisher Farm’s Maya Charli put her front-running skills to good use Saturday, taking the $30,000 Georiga Cup filly/mare hurdle stakes for trainer Jack Fisher and jockey Sean Flannagan.
Moonsox upsets My Lady’s Manor
In early April every year, Marylanders leave steeplechase meets with one simple question. Did we see the Hunt Cup winner today?
Overanlyze, Frac Daddy lock up spots in Arkansas
Mike Repole was somewhere other than Hot Springs, Arkansas. Todd Pletcher was in Lexington, Ky., watching via simulcast under the grandstand at Keeneland Race Course with an NBC camera and Donna Brothers’ microphone in his mug.
Leaving it to Leparoux pays off in Blue Grass
A full field of 14 in a Grade 1 prep for the Kentucky Derby and a colt without too much early pace doesn’t leave too many options, so Ken McPeek didn’t fret too much about strategy. He left the outcome of the Toyota Blue Grass Stakes in the hands of Julien Leparoux and that move, along with a few others, led to victory for Charles Fipke’s homebred Java’s War.
Guarding the Fort
Ian Wilkes stood on the steps looking over the paddock chute at Gulfstream Park to watch the Gulfstream Park Handicap March 9. Wilkes’ Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Fort Larned was taking on five rivals in the Grade II dirt stakes.
Oaklawn offers one last chance to secure Derby spot
Ken McPeek pulled into the back gate at Keeneland Race Course off Rice Road in Lexington, Kentucky, halfway through the afternoon Friday, past the rows of cars and packs of fans coming to see Wise Dan.
Jumps: Handicapping Atlanta, Manor
Get back to work. The fearless steeplechase handicappers at TIHR go to bat once again with two meets on tap Saturday – in Georgia and Maryland.
Murphy’s Law: Trainer discovers timber gold
Alicia Murphy shops for steeplechase prospects in the bargain aisle, and knows what she wants. She’s not all that sure how to explain it, however.
