If you think watching racing from Belmont Park and Churchill Downs and other tracks in front of empty grandstands is kind of eerie try watching the races from Royal Ascot where the event normally is highlighted...
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Santa Anita Park brought down the curtain June 23 on what certainly was the most bizarre race meet the track has held in its 85-year history. Noteworthy for all the wrong reasons, the stand ended with...
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Has any breeder had a better fortnight than John Gunther? On June 9, he was in the box seats at Belmont Park with his daughter Tanya and lifelong friend Steve Irwin watching Justify win the Triple Crown...
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Leave it to the British to supply North America with its most compelling racing over the last week. One would think there would be enough graded stakes run in late June to satiate the racing public, but...
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When Royal Ascot ended its five-day meet Saturday, there was a sense of sadness, as if something beautiful, yet comforting, was taken away after filling four and a half hours each morning with a kaleidoscope...
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Racing at Ascot Racecourse began in 1711, and it’s been a pretty big deal ever since with the Royal Ascot meeting rooted in a long-standing British tradition of quality racing with the Royal Family on...
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David Mowat's Ten Broeck stable has the glow of success. by Claire Novak Washington native David Mowat has minimized his Thoroughbred operation, withdrawing from Kentucky—where he once owned Fawn Leap...
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Someone asked me today to send them a link to the column I wrote five years ago about Yeats’ record-breaking fourth Ascot Gold Cup victory. That got me thinking about this year’s Gold Cup, which awakened...
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By J. Keeler Johnson ("Keelerman") There is no race meet in the world quite like Royal Ascot. The five-day, thirty-race festival features some of the highest-class racing in all of Europe, and the participation...
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More than 300 years of elite racing and fashion converge June 17-21 at the prestigious Royal Ascot meeting in Great Britain. Ascot Racecourse has put together a video that provides their guidelines on...
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