On October 22, 2016 Trooper John went up against 8 other horses in the $49,000 Canadian Juvenile at Northlands Park in Edmonton. With jockey Keishan Balgobin in the irons, Trooper John won by 8 1/2 lengths. He paid $23.30. Trooper John vied for the early lead prompted from between rivals, gained the lead at the quarter pole, Read more »
Month: October 2016
PA-Breds Item, Devilish Love, & Chapel of Chimes Shine at Maryland Million
Ladies: Head bob to Devilish Love Devilish Love tracked pacesetter Pauline’s Pride early in the $125,000 Maryland Million Ladies, took the lead nearing the stretch, and then battled to the wire with Complete St. and won a head bob in the 1 1/8-mile turf race for fillies and mares. Complete St. was unlucky to lose Read more »
Michael Cox’s Rockin Jojo unleashed a furious outside stretch drive to pull off a 30-1 upset in Saturday’s $100,000 Maryland Million Distaff. The 4-year-old daughter of Street Magician scored by a half-length to record her second career stakes victory while running seven furlongs in 1:25.06 under jockey Angel Cruz. The Guadalupe Preciado-trained filly was rated Read more »
House Passes Legislative Fix to Help PA Breeding Program
Legislation to address an unintended consequence of a law enacted earlier this year to modernize the state’s horse racing industry that has held up more than $6 million in payouts to winning thoroughbred horse breeders and owners won House passage on Monday. The bill, approved by a 192-0 vote, now goes to the Senate where proponents Read more »
Al’s Gal Breaks Through in E.P. Taylor
It took Ken and Sarah Ramsey’s 5-year-old mare Al’s Gal 26 starts to earn her first graded win, but it was a whopper Oct. 16 at Woodbine. The daughter of English Channel trained by Mike Maker was part of a cavalry charge to the wire in the final stages of the $500,000 E. P. Taylor Stakes Read more »
Catalogued PA-Breds in Fasig-Tipton October Sale
Session 1 Monday October 24, 2016 at 10 a.m. Hip no. 4 Dark Bay or Brown Filly, 5/12/15, by Jump Start (1999) – Immune to Gloom (2001) by Citidancer; Thomas G. McClay; Darby Dan Farm, Agent; Registered PA-Bred. Hip no. 65 Dark Bay or Brown Filly, 5/11/15, by First Samurai (2003) – Keiai Tokyo (2008) Read more »
Trace of Grace Scores Front-Running Victory in Plum Pretty
Penn National-based trainer Bernie Houghton brought two horses to run in Saturday’s $100,000 Plum Pretty Stakes at Parx Racing. The most prominent was 5-year-old Bound, who won last year’s Plum Pretty and captured the $121,000 Northern Fling at Presque Isle Downs this summer. Bound beat just one horse as the 5-2 second choice on Saturday, Read more »
PA-Breds Perform at the Fasig-Tipton Midatlantic Fall Yearling Sale
On October 4th at Timonium, breeders, bidders, and consigners alike gathered for the Fasig-Tipton Midatlantic fall yearling sale. This year, 267 yearlings sold for $6,356,600 – more than a million dollars more than last year’s gross receipts (Mitchell). The second highest-selling yearling was a PA-Bred by Uncle Mo, consigned by Darby Dan Farm, that sold for Read more »