Stakes for Juveniles Top Los Alamitos Winter Meet
Four stakes for 2-year-olds—including a pair of graded races—highlight the upcoming winter Thoroughbred meet at Los Alamitos Race Course.
Four stakes for 2-year-olds—including a pair of graded races—highlight the upcoming winter Thoroughbred meet at Los Alamitos Race Course.
Canadian second-crop sire Danish Dynaformer was represented by his first black-type stakes winner Sept. 24 when his daughter War Painter rallied to take the CA$100,000 Victorian Queen Stakes at Woodbine.
The 5-year-old gelded son of Conveyance was in his trailer near Columbus, Ohio, heading home from Parx Racing when noise from a braking semi-truck scared him, according to trainer Tim Eggleston.
Attention turns to Ireland this week as Goffs host the country's most significant yearling sale, the Orby. Ireland's reputation for producing Thoroughbreds is underpinned by a rich history, but it's the future that buyers will be fixed on this week.
The weather at Goffs might not have been much to write home about Sept. 24, as inspections ahead of the Orby Yearling Sale took place amid squally rain, but the Staffordstown draft was walking on sunshine.
Soloshot won the Lady Finger Stakes Sept. 25 at Finger Lakes Gaming & Racetrack gate to wire.
The bay colt won the Aspirant Stakes by a head at Finger Lakes Gaming & Racetrack. Leofric is now the 10th North American freshman sire to be represented by a stakes winner.