Hard Spun, a G1 winner and now the sire of many top-class racehorses, including Eclipse Champion Questing, will stand the 2014 breeding season at Sheikh Mohammed’s Darley stud in Japan. Charlie Boden, Darley’s Head of Sales in America said, “Just like Street Sense was in 2013, Hard Spun will be a fantastic addition to our Read more »

By Claire Novak, @BH_CNovak   Photo: Anne M. Eberhardt   Morton Fink’s homebred Horse of the Year Wise Dan will launch a title defense Nov. 2 in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Mile (gr. IT), a race he won in record-setting style last season to cap a campaign that brought him additional Eclipse Awards as Read more »

By Tracy Gantz   Photo: Coglianese Photos   The Breeders’ Cup Distaff (gr. I) may only have a field of six, but they have created perhaps the most riveting puzzle in the entire series this year. Champions Royal Delta and Beholder pointed for the race early, which scared off the first wave. Then when majority Read more »

Any Given Saturday, one of the best of an outstanding group of three-year-olds of his year, will move from Darley in Kentucky to stand at Pin Oak Lane in New Freedom, Pennsylvania beginning in 2014. The fee for the nine-year-old son of Distorted Humor has been set at $5,000. In what was one of the Read more »

Published on Sunday, 20 October 2013 00:56 Joe Clancy Divine Fortune flies the last fence in the Grand National. Tod Marks photo One. Just one. He deserved one. Divine Fortune finished second in the Grand National, the Iroquois (twice) and the Colonial Cup (twice). He fell at the last fence of the Turf Writers – Read more »

Roadhog takes the Maryland Million Turf Where to start. The Maryland Million delivered again – with Eighttofasttocatch and Roadhog taking the big ones. Results like that are why people go to the races. Laurel Park packed in 18,000 fans on Maryland’s day at the races. It’s a long way from Kelso and the International back Read more »

By Steve Haskin, @SteveHaskin     The news was expected: Princess of Sylmar is heading to Santa Anita Park for the Breeders’ Cup Distaff(gr. I) on Nov. 1.   Princess of Sylmar only needed a satisfactory work at Belmont Park Oct. 19 to punch her ticket to California. She delivered just that, breezing a half-mile Read more »

Through their days together of operating Gum Tree Stable in the rural town of Gum Tree, Pa., the husband and wife team of Laura and Larry Ensor has maintained virtual anonymity in the Thoroughbred racing world while Larry is much better known among the steeplechase set. But one of their products recently notched his first Read more »

By Melaina Phipps, @BH_MPhipps   Photo: Courtesy of Xanthus Farms, Inc. Southern Success   Stakes-winning stallion Southern Success   will return to Dana Point Farm, near  Lenhartsville, Penn., for the 2014 breeding season. His stud fee has been set at $1,000, stands and nurses.   During his two-year absence from Dana Point he stood one year Read more »

Sept 21: ’10 f SO MANY WAYS 1st 400K Charles Town Oaks (3yo) 7F – CT Sept 21: ’09 f FEAR THE FACELIFT 2nd 35K Ann Hilton H (WV) 6-1/2F — CT Sept 21: ’07 g ROADHOG 1st 75K Alphabet Soup H (PA) 1-1/16M T – Prx Sept 21: ’08 g Shetan 2nd 75K Alphabet Read more »