MIKE SMITH, MIDNIGHT HAWK, SECOND: “He did good. He got away a bit slow. He didn’t break as well as we’d like, but in saying that, he had no excuse. The winner just beat me. I wish the outcome was different, but it is what it is.†(On California C
“He ran every step of the way and put himself in the game early, which we wanted to do. It’s pretty rare you have a horse than can win the Belmont and also run 1:33 and change and stalk solid fractions. It tells you how good of a horse he is and how m
Making his first start since finishing sixth in the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) on Nov. 2, Belmont Stakes (G1) winner Palace Malice hit the wire in 1:33.80 for the one-turn mile, just .67 off the track record set by Normandy Invasion on Feb. 22. Favored
“Bob told me to trust him, that I would have a different horse this time. He didn’t think he had him exactly where he wanted him for the San Antonio. Bob told me not to be down, that he didn’t have him ready. He had him 110 percent today and when it
GYO is a community- based organization that has served the Long Island community for more than 30 years through recreational and enrichment activities targeting at-risk adolescents. "The kids are amazed when they see everything that goes into thoroughbred
Runner-up by a head to Wildcat Red in the $400,000 Besilu Stables Fountain of Youth (G2) at Gulfstream on Feb. 22, General a Rod will have his first work since the race on Saturday morning over the main track. “He’s doing fine. We just want a slow, ea
A gate to wire winner on Feb. 13, he was a first-out, 3 ¼ length maiden winner going seven furlongs in his debut Jan. 4. Bayern, a Kentucky-bred colt by Offlee Wild, has been odds-on in both of his starts and will again be guided by Gary Stevens, who wil
The Big ’Cap high weight at 124 pounds, Mucho Macho Man, a 6-year-old Florida-bred horse by Macho Uno, enters America’s longest continually run hundred grander on a roll, having won his last three starts in-a-row, and, with a proven affinity for Santa
Palace Malice was 12th in the Derby before going on to win the Belmont Stakes (G1) and Jim Dandy (G2), capping his season by running sixth in the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) in November. Runner-up in the Florida Derby (G1) and Preakness (G1), Itsmyluckyd
Trainer Jose Garoffalo has enlisted the services of Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez for the 3-year-old son of Grade 1-winning sprinter D’wildcat, who is coming off back-to-back graded stakes victories. “I’m very happy with that. I like him,†Ga
