What makes a good racehorse? Here are the four most important qualities to look for: 1. Soundness For a racehorse to give a trainer the best chance to fulfill its natural ability on the track, they need to be as sound as possible. Clearly, this is a major issue in all forms of equine competition, […]
My belief, and not necessarily the belief of Mr. Baffert and connections, is that Arrogate quite simply isn’t as good over the Del Mar surface as he is over any of the other surfaces that he’s run on. Del Mar is right on the edge of the ocean; it’s a track that retains a lot […]
A huge part of each summer, for those of us on the east coast, is the Saratoga meet – a seven week marathon in upstate New York at the most iconic racetrack in North America, in my opinion. This place has seen some of the most extraordinary equine performances, and we were lucky enough last […]
Having had a relatively consistent start to the year, winning races on a regular basis, we seem to have hit a little bit of a dry spell over the course of the last six weeks. Some unlucky trips and a couple disappointing circumstances losing a race or two in the stewards room over the course […]
Opening weekend at Belmont was a little bit tough for the barn to take with Birchwood Road being defeated by a nostril on May 3rd, which was his first start in New York and first start since the Fair Grounds. Tough start to the meet with five of our horses hitting the board but no […]
Now that we are full into spring, a recap of our New York winter meet and Keeneland meet… Our Keeneland mission became a little deteriorated when we lost a couple of horses towards the end of the Fair Grounds meet – a horse or two moved on to other trainers, one got claimed and a […]
NYRA/Chelsea Durand Saturday, April 22nd, 2017 By Sarah Mace Bluegrass Flag (Bluegrass Cat) notched her second career stakes tally even more impressively than her first, when she when she buried two rivals in a six-length romp in the open Cicada Stakes at Aqueduct on March 25. In Saturday’s 24th running of the $100,000 Park Avenue […]
Fun Guy Breaks Maiden at Aqueduct April 12, 2017 – New York-bred Fun Guy, with Eric Cancel in the irons, charged down the lane to win the eighth at Aqueduct, a 1 1/16 mile contest on turf. The win came against a field of ten and marked the gelding’s first career victory. From the […]
This last weekend, we got lucky in two senses. I genuinely believe that during my lifetime we have been incredibly fortunate to witness probably the greatest generation of Thoroughbreds to have graced the racetracks of the world. From Black Caviar to Rock of Gibraltar, to the unbeaten three-year-old filly Zarkava who won the Arc in […]
What in the world happened to February this year? I feel like I blinked and it was over! A lot has happened since my last blog, but let’s start where we left off, which was the Fair Grounds quarantine… After a forced sabbatical from running our horses at the Fair Grounds, the quarantine on our […]