by rob_onlion | Nov 20, 2022 | Media
Looking to collect his second graded stakes win of the season, Havnameltdown proved he was up to the task with a professional score over stablemate Newgate in Sunday’s GIII Bob Hope S. at Del Mar. One of three Baffert trainees in the short five-horse field,...
by rob_onlion | Nov 18, 2022 | Media
The Ontario Sire Heritage Series concluded Friday at Woodbine with Strega winning the $100,000 Ashbridges Bay Stakes and Full Screen taking the $100,000 Lake Ontario Stakes.Sent off as the 9-5 second choice. Strega, with leading rider Kazushi Kimura in the irons,...
by rob_onlion | Nov 12, 2022 | Media
Sent right to the front after a fast beginning by jockey Flavian Prat, FAIZA (Girvin–Sweet Pistol, by Smart Strike), a $725,000 2-year-old purchase by agegent Donato Lanni out of the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Sale, hooked up early with Teena Ella (War Front) and...
by rob_onlion | Nov 4, 2022 | Media
Donato Lanni will have a busy weekend at the Breeders’ Cup World Championships which attract the best male and female thoroughbreds to compete in Grade 1 races at a variety of distances on both turf and dirt. The 2022 event runs Friday and Saturday (Nov 4th-5th)...
by rob_onlion | Oct 27, 2022 | Media
Queen’s Plate and Woodbine Oaks winner MOIRA leads a small Canadian contingent to the Breeders’ Cup World Championships next week at Keeneland racecourse in Kentucky. Donato Lanni’s X-Men Racing – 2 and Madaket have LAST CALL, a Kentucky-bred trained by Attard...
by rob_onlion | Oct 23, 2022 | Media
Woodbine trainer Kevin Attard is confident that his spectacular filly Moira has another big race in her this year. Attard has pre-entered Moira in the $2 million Maker’s Mark Breeders Cup Filly & Mare Turf race at Keeneland on Nov. 5. The Breeders Cup is...