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Throughout dual-classic winner California Chrome’s run through the Triple Crown races this season, Steve Coburn, the colt’s co-owner and co-breeder along with Perry Martin, talked about how they felt like they had a classic winner, and perhaps a Triple Crown winner, from the start. California Chrome won the Kentucky Derby Presented by ...

The battle for the leading freshman sire crown in Australia and New Zealand for 2014-15 may well come down to Fastnet Rock vs. the rest. Fastnet Rock While there is plenty of interest among the current freshman crop, there is no doubt that one of the more intriguing developments to watch will be the progress of the first contingent of sons of ...

Not unexpectedly, The Jockey Club announced Aug. 10 a call to action for federal legislation to support uniform medication testing and enforcement.The Jockey Club does not advocate having a federal agency actually responsible for enforcement and testing in Thoroughbred racing, however. Instead, the call to action would involve the pursuit of ...

Shug McGaughey threw everyone a bit of a curve when he stated that his grass star Mr Speaker was being considered for the Travers Stakes. Now why would McGaughey think that a horse who has won three of his last five starts on grass, including stakes scores in the Belmont Derby Invitational and Dania Beach and a fast-closing second in the Palm ...

The Grade 2 Fourstardave HandicapSaratoga / August 9 / Race 10 / 6:10 EDT by TimeformUS Analyst Mike Beer Get started on FREE TimeformUS PPs for the FourStarDaveWith two-time defending champ Wise Dan sitting this one out, a talented field of six turf milers will get a chance to pick up some Grade 2 hardware at Saratoga on Saturday. Four ...

By J. Keeler Johnson (''Keelerman'') There’s no dispute that two-time Horse of the Year Wise Dan is still the king of the turf milers, but with the champ still on the comeback trail after colic surgery, there may be an opportunity for challengers to stake their claim for the throne in a pair of 8.5-furlong turf stakes races at Saratoga this week. ...

There seemed to be an inordinate number of people who were displeased with the result of the Aug. 2 Whitney Handicap, mainly due to the winning trainer Eric Guillot, who, to put it mildly, is not your typical trainer. Looking and sounding as if he had been plucked out of the swamps of the Bayou after years of wrestling gators, Guillot ...

Leading Sires, by 2015 Breeders' Cup Challenge Winners Sire Number Galileo 5 Hard Spun 4 Bernardini 3 Scat Daddy 3 A.P. Indy 2 Colonel John 2 Danehill Dancer 2 Dubawi 2 ...

Location Number Kentucky 37 Ireland 15 Florida 4 Great Britain 3 Ontario 3 France 2 New Zealand 2 South Africa 2 Argentina 2 Australia 1 Brazil 1 ...

Winners of 2015 Breeders' Cup Challenge races and upcoming schedule (updated Oct. 7, final list for 2015.) Classic Horse, Sire, Challenge race won, trackAmerican Pharoah (KY), Pioneerof the Nile, William Hill Haskell Invitational S. (gr. I), Monmouth ParkArabian Queen (IRE), Dubawi, Juddmonte International Stakes (Eng-I), ...