by Press Release | 04.06.2014 | 5:15pm Princess of Sylmar wins the April 6 Cat Cay Stakes at Aqueduct Heavily favored Princess of Sylmar, a four-time Grade 1 stakes winner who was making her first start since finishing last of six in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff in November, was victorious in her return on Sunday Read more »

By Blood-Horse Staff       Princess of Sylmar, who won a pair of stakes at Aqueduct Racetrack before going on to win four grade I races during her 2013 season, will return to the track April 6 to make her 4-year-old debut in the $100,000 Cat Cay. The Cat Cay, a one-mile race around Read more »

Eric Johnston, currently Vice President of Racing/Racing Secretary at Sam Houston Race Park, has been named Director of Racing Operations for Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course. Johnston, a native of Grantville, Pennsylvania where Penn National is located, began his racing official’s career at that facility in 1983 and also served as a racing Read more »

HENRY RICHTER CHRISTOPER. Henry’s cigar went out early in the morning of February 6, 2014. Henry was born October 1, 1923, the youngest child of Maximillian F. and Helen E. Elser of Greenwich Village, NYC and Lititz, PA. He attended The Kent School and graduated from Yale Univer-sity with the Class of 1945 after serving Read more »

By Blood-Horse Staff   Photo: EQUI-PHOTO/Barbara Weidl Norman Asbjornson Dual stakes winner Norman Asbjornson   has been retired from racing to stand at Dr. William O. Solomon’s Pin Oak Lane near New Freedom, Pa. The 6-year-old son of Real Quiet—Merryland Missy, by Citidancer, will stand for $2,500, or $1,500 for multiple mares. Norman Asbjornson excelled at Read more »

By Blood Horse Staff The first reported foal for stakes winner Uptowncharlybrown   was a colt born the evening of Feb. 16 at Michael Jester’s Penn Ridge Farm near Harrisburg, Pa. Bred by Fantasy Lane Stables, the colt is the first foal out of the Dixie Union mare Glorious Union. Fantasy Lane also campaigned Uptowncharlybrown who Read more »

By Tom LaMarra ust weeks after a lengthy quarantine ended, Parx Racing in Pennsylvania has locked down two more barns because of a positive test for equine herpesvirus. Parx director of racing Sal Sinatra said Feb. 18 the horse in question is stabled with trainer Bill Hedus in Barn 32. In addition, Barn 19 was Read more »

Princess of Sylmar, who rattled off four consecutive grade I wins last year, returned to the work tab Feb. 16 for trainer Todd Pletcher with a three-furlong breeze at Palm Meadows. An Eclipse Award finalist for top 3-year-old filly of 2013 off her six stakes wins, Princess of Sylmar lost out to Breeders’ Cup Distaff Read more »

  By Bloodhorse Staff Gracer looked the part of a 1-5 shot Feb. 8 at Aqueduct Racetrack, cruising on the front end to a 10 1/4-length score in the $98,000 Dearly Precious Stakes for 3-year-old filly sprinters (VIDEO). Away best of the field of five, the daughter of Exchange Rate   was sent straight to the Read more »

By Claire Novak,   Photo: Coglianese Photos Falling Sky runs away from the competition in the Gulfstream Park Sprint Stakes. Order This Photo Newtown Anner Stud and Joseph Bulger’s Falling Sky won for the first time since the 2013 Sam F. Davis Stakes (gr. III), upsetting the Feb. 8 Gulfstream Park Sprint Stakes (gr. III) Read more »