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Favored Speed Boat Beach (Bayern) led home a one-two finish for Bob Baffert in the GI Malibu S. at Santa Anita Tuesday, putting away stablemate Hejazi (Bernardini) down the lane to give the trainer his record-tying sixth win in the race–and third in the last four...

Wynstock (Solomini), campaigned in partnership by Los Alamitos track owner Ed Allred and one-time Hollywood Park president and current Los Al vice president Jack Liebau, provided his New York-based stallion with his second stakes winner of the afternoon and first at...

Baffert dominates the Los Alamitos Futurity, a race he has now won 14 times, both when it was the Hollywood Futurity at Hollywood Park and at Los Alamitos. He entered three 2-year-olds this year, winning with the longest shot of the three. Wynstock was coming off a 7...

Nothing Like You (Malibu Moon) gave Hall of Famer Bob Baffert a seventh straight victory in the GII Starlet S. at Los Alamitos Saturday evening. Drawn on the rail in the field of six, the last-out Desi Arnaz S. winner was sent to the front by Juan Hernandez and was...

The 2022 Horse of the Year had a strong 2023 campaign and ended the season with a third-place run in the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf.  “She had us out of our seats, the Breeders’ Cup was an exciting race,” said Donato Lanni, curator of the X-Men Racing...

He’s won the King’s Plate, Woodbine Oaks and Prince of Wales Stakes but a Breeders’ Cup victory would be a crowning achievement for Canadian trainer Kevin Attard.  “Being Canadian, the King’s Plate means a lot,” Attard said. “But if you get lucky enough to win a...

In the 40th edition of the premier event of the North American Thoroughbred horse racing year, the best-of-the-best thoroughbreds face off in 14 G1 races this year at Santa Anita Park in California.  Top agent Donato Lanni bought several of the contenders in this...

On a dank, rainy afternoon in flood-soaked New York, Krikorian took down a pair of grade 1 races in the space of 30 minutes. First up was War Like Goddess , Krikorian's veteran race mare who proved she has plenty left in the tank, bouncing back from a pair of losses...

Leading 3-year-old Arabian Lion, who became Justify's first Grade 1 winner after capturing this year's G1 Woody Stephens Stakes at Belmont Park, has been retired from racing and will enter stud at Spendthrift Farm for the 2024 breeding season. His introductory fee...

Zedan Racing Stable's 'TDN Rising Star' Muth (c, 2, Good Magic–Hoppa, by Uncle Mo), second as the heavy favorite after pressing a blistering pace in the GIII Best Pal S. Aug. 13, showed a new dimension by coming off the pace while making his two-turn debut in style in...

George Krikorian’s War Like Goddess reeled in runaway pacesetter So High to defeat males for a second straight year in Saturday’s Grade 1, $500,000 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic, a 1 1/2-mile outer turf test for 3-year-olds and up, at Belmont at the Big A. Bred in Kentucky...

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 giving...