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Any time a horse sells for seven figures at public auction is a cause for celebration for consignors and breeders alike. For Torie Gladwell of Top Line Sales, the $1 million sale of a bay filly by American Pharoah to agent Donato Lanni during the second session of the...

Hall of Famer Bob Baffert picked up yet another rich prize Feb. 26 as he shipped Pinehurst  halfway around the world and was rewarded with a game victory in the $1.5 million Saudi Derby Presented by Al Rajhi Bank (G3) at King Abdulaziz Racetrack in Riyadh, Saudi...

Baoma Corp.'s Ganadora installed the 6-5 choice in this first go, slugged it out early with So It Would Seem (Honor Code), but was peerless in the stretch, running away to win by an impressive 6 1/2-length margin over 2-1 second choice Lady T (Into Mischief).  A $1...

The Saudi Derby had been won by horses based in Japan in each of its first two runnings and the island nation swept the first three races on Saturday's Saudi Cup undercard. Pinehurst (Twirling Candy) had his full battling qualities on display and withstood a late...

Michael Lund Petersen's Adare Manor, fresh off a 12-length maiden special weight tour de force, turned in another breathtaking performance in the Feb. 6 $196,000 Las Virgenes Stakes (G3) at Santa Anita Park.  The 3-year-old daughter of Uncle Mo glided to the wire...

Messier gave trainer Bob Baffert and jockey John Velazquez their second dominant graded winner of the afternoon when he flew home an unchallenged victor of the GIII Robert B. Lewis S. at Santa Anita Sunday. There was no running down Messier, who galloped home by 15...

Trainer Bob Baffert took home his third El Camino Real Derby trophy when the lightly-raced Blackadder blitzed by slow-starting Mackinnon in deep stretch to win by a neck. The second choice was Blackadder, one of many talented 3-year-olds Hall of Famer Baffert has...

A lightly raced, once-pricey juvenile trained by Bob Baffert won the GIII Palos Verdes S: the $300,000 OBS April 2-year-old Essential Wager (Honor Code) who was making his stakes debut after riding a two-race win streak. "This horse is getting better and better, he...

Unbeaten Newgrange (Violence) found his best stride late to justify 3-2 favoritism in Oaklawn's $750,000 GIII Southwest S. “We saw he had a different dimension today, the way the race set up,” said trainer Bob Baffert, who tied Bob Holthus's record five wins in this...

Drefong has been crowned Japan's champion freshman sire of 2021, which includes statistics from regional racing conducted by the National Association of Racing.  Drefong won six of nine starts, including the Ketel One Kings Bishop Stakes (G1) and TwinSpires Breeders'...

Already with a record seven GIII Sham S. trophies, including the two prior runnings and three of the last four, trainer Bob Baffert and the ever-present ownership group nicknamed The Avengers celebrated another big score Saturday at Santa Anita with front-running...

His 3-year-olds may not be eligible to run in the Kentucky Derby, but trainer Bob Baffert surely has an abundance of horses with the potential to be Triple Crown contenders in any other year. He added the winner and runner-up in another Road to the Kentucky Derby...