by rob_onlion | Sep 25, 2024 | Media
From an emotional standpoint, it’s never easy for an owner when a star Thoroughbred heads to the breeding shed. But for Michael Lund Petersen, the announcement that his three-time grade 1-winning 5-year-old mare Adare Manor has been retired, first reported by...
by rob_onlion | Sep 16, 2024 | Media
Woodbine wrapped up a jam-packed weekend of stakes races and big fields with a Sunday card that included a pair of Ontario-sired stakes events, the Bull Page and Victorian Queen. The winner of the former, colt DEWOLF, has impressively started his career. Dewolf...
by rob_onlion | Sep 15, 2024 | Media
Dewolf was able to get the upper hand late to take top prize in the $100,000 Bull Page Stakes, a seven-furlong grass event for Ontario-sired 2-year-old colts and geldings, Sunday at Woodbine. A son of Silent Name (JPN)-Holy Cargo, Dewolf, with Rafael Hernandez aboard,...
by rob_onlion | Sep 11, 2024 | Media
Nearly three-quarters of the way through the third day of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale, SF Racing, Starlight Racing, and Madaket Stables went to $1.05 million for the Sept. 11 co-session topper, the Tapit colt consigned as Hip 674. Donato Lanni signed the...
by rob_onlion | Sep 8, 2024 | Media
Patiently ridden by Flavien Prat, Mike Pegram, Karl Watson and Paul Weitman’s Gaming rallied from off the pace set by stablemate Getaway Car to win Sunday’s Grade 1, $301,000 Del Mar Futurity on the San Diego County seaside track’s closing day of the...
by rob_onlion | Sep 1, 2024 | Media
Muth is back in the racing groove after being sidelined for five months, winning the 1-mile, $125,000 Shared Belief Stakes by two lengths at Del Mar on Sunday. In his first race since a victory in the Arkansas Derby (G1) at Oaklawn Park on March 30 to establish...