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Newgrange and Tripoli are the dangers to the Bob Baffert duo of Hopper and Messier. A 5 1/4-length winner of the four-horse Affirmed Stakes (G3) last June for then-trainer Sean McCarthy, Hopper returns off a series of fast workouts for Hall of Fame trainer Bob...

Born just a day apart in the same foaling barn, two daughters of Girvin once roamed the same Bluegrass fields in their early days at Airdrie Stud. On Saturday, the duo will meet again as 'TDN Rising Star' Faiza and stakes-placed Blessed Touch enter the starting gate...

Grade I winner Defunded, who skipped a shot at the Breeders' Cup, kept it rolling with a popular score in the GIII Native Diver S. Sunday at Del Mar.Going wire to wire to capture the GI Awesome Again S. last out Oct. 1 in Arcadia, the chestnut was knocked down to...

Pinehurst has been purchased by a domestic farm which will announce in due time," Tom Ryan of SF Bloodstock told BloodHorse Nov. 22 after the Fasig-Tipton Pinehurst Flash Sale concluded. The final price was not named, along with the purchaser for the 3-year-old son of...

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,...

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,...

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...

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) and...

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 in the...

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...

Queen's Plate winner Moira , demoted from second to eighth for interference in the Oct. 8 E.P. Taylor Stakes (G1) at Woodbine, will pick up legendary European jockey Frankie Dettori for an intended start in the Nov. 5 Maker's Mark Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf...

I called the elite bloodstock agent Donato Lanni last Wednesday only to tell him I'd call him again Sunday and to expect my call. I didn't want to jinx him, with Cave Rock (Arrogate), War Like Goddess (English Channel), and Moira (Ghostzapper) entered in three Grade l...