by rob_onlion | Oct 7, 2023 | Media
For the second year in a row, the fabulous 6-year-old mare War Like Goddess beat the guys in the 1 1/2-mile turf stakes as she prepped for a return trip to the Breeders’ Cup Turf by recording a decisive 4 1/2-length victory Oct. 7 at Aqueduct Racetrack and...
by rob_onlion | Oct 1, 2023 | Media
To see Adare Manor (f, 4, Uncle Mo–Brooklynsway, by Giant Gizmo) gallop out after Santa Anita’s GII Zenyatta S. was to see a filly who looked like she was pretty proud of herself. Indeed, she should have been. The Zenyatta was Adare Manor’s fifth straight...
by rob_onlion | Oct 1, 2023 | Media
Adare Manor did just what she was supposed to do in the Oct. 1 Zenyatta Stakes (G2) at Santa Anita, gliding home an easy winner. Her facile triumph over three others likely earned her a chance in the Breeders’ Cup, according to trainer Bob Baffert. Donato Lanni...
by rob_onlion | Sep 28, 2023 | Media
With her last three victories coming in graded the stakes, the most recent a one-length score going a mile and one sixteenth in the G1 Clement L. Hirsch at Del Mar Aug. 5, Adare Manor should be tough to deny on the front end with Juan Hernandez back aboard for Bob...
by rob_onlion | Sep 25, 2023 | Media
Canadian second-crop sire Danish Dynaformer was represented by his first black-type stakes winner Sept. 24 when his daughter War Painter rallied to take the CA$100,000 Victorian Queen Stakes at Woodbine with authority. War Painter, a 2-year-old filly trained by Kevin...