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  • Phipps Forever

    If youre looking for Cinderella stories or fairy tales in general, youre not going to find them in Shug McGaugheys barn. If you want to get all choked up reading some rags-to-riches feel-good story, you dont go out and get War and Peace.But in a world where tradition and sportsmanship are eroding with each passing year, McGaughey and the ...
    Posted to Hangin' With Haskin (Weblog) by aspradling on 08-19-2012
  • Like an Arrow

    Racecourse regulars have been waiting for that breakout daythe one that you think about for weeks and months, even years, afterwards; a stellar day in which the weather, the crowd, the racing and the thrills come together in an exuberant display of the elements.Saturday was that day.  Questing, a Godolphin filly, won the Alabama Stakes (gr. ...
    Posted to Vic Zast Saratoga Diary (Weblog) by aspradling on 08-19-2012
  • Pink and Rosie

    Fans wearing pink were allowed into the racecourse for free. Friday was Fabulous Fillies Day, remembering Evelyn H. Lauder, honoring Virginia Kraft Payson and benefitting breast cancer research.  There were free faux diamond pendants for early arrivers, complimentary pink hair extensions for anyone who wanted one and a Sizzling Hot ...
  • Colonel John's Offspring Command Attention at Yearling Sales

    Colonel John was last year's leading first crop sireof sale weanlings in North America. His 10 offspring that were sold averaged$105,900, and they ranged in price from $40,000 to $170,000. The 7-year-old bay horse also is prominent againthis year at Thoroughbred auctions. He was the leading first-crop sire at theFasig-Tipton Kentucky July select ...
    Posted to Hammer Time (Weblog) by macawwoman on 08-17-2012
  • Mornings on the Backstretch

    The backstretch was a beehive Thursday morning. Joe and Anne McMahon, wearing blue ball caps honoring their fine sire Utopia, lingered with family members and stopped to greet friends.  McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds, the outfit that produced Funny Cide, has bought two TVCs on the MSNBC telecast of Saturdays Alabama.  ...
  • Breaking down the Arlington Million

    Arlinton Million, Race 11, Saturday, August 18 $1-million, 1 1/4 miles on Turf   1 Rahystrada (8-1) finished finished 5th, beaten 3 3/4 lengths, in last year's Million, which had a better field than this year with the likes of multiple Group 1 winners Cape Blanco and U.S. champion grass horse Gio Ponti. An eight-year-old ...
    Posted to Unlocking Winners (Weblog) by Pete Denk on 08-16-2012
  • Kauai Katie: Repeating the Pattern

    It's still very early in the season for serious juvenile competition, but there is no doubt that one of the most impressive 2-year-old fillies seen to date is Kauai Katie. Successful by 12 lengths on her debut (video), the Stonestreet Stable color-bearer returned to action at Saratoga in the Adirondack Stakes (gr. II), and captured the 6 ...
    Posted to TrueNicks (Weblog) by Alan Porter on 08-16-2012
  • Point of Entry, Photo Tease

    Sword Dancer contender Point of Entry at Saratoga (Photos: C. Novak) SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY - I stopped by Shug McGaughey's barn at Saratoga Race Course Aug. 11 not to visit Point of Entry, but to take pictures of our old friend Hymn Book, the Donn Handicap (gr. I) winner and subject of my first Novak at the Track blog. Hymn Book's stall is a ...
    Posted to Novak at the Track (Weblog) by Claire Novak on 08-16-2012
  • Bridgetown, Bartenders and Bingo Night

    NYRA scheduled the best horses to race Wednesday in the fifth race instead of the ninth or the tenth. If by next summer the $100,000 Troy isnt a graded stakes, there is something amiss with the way the American Graded Stakes Committee reads a Daily Racing Form.  Arguably, three of the sports most accomplished turf sprinters ran in the 5 1/2 ...
    Posted to Vic Zast Saratoga Diary (Weblog) by aspradling on 08-16-2012
  • Woodward the Wise Choice

    Charlie Lopresti, trainer of Wise Dan, is starting to toss the words Horse of the Year around and its obvious after his horses impressive score in the Fourstardave that he has his sights set on racings most esteemed annual award.Lopresti has the luxury of running Wise Dan just about anywhere he desires, knowing the son of Wisemans Ferry can ...
    Posted to Hangin' With Haskin (Weblog) by Blood-Horse Staff on 08-15-2012
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