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Only two days after Proud Spell very likely clinched this year's filly championship comes the news that Genuine Risk, the champion filly of 1980, died in her Virginia paddock this morning. Genuine Risk won 10 of her 15 career starts, including the Demoiselle and Ruffian Handicap, and never finished worse than third (PDF), but what earned the chestnut mare with the distinctive blaze her fame was being the second filly to win the Kentucky Derby: She remains the only filly to have finished in the money in every Triple Crown race, placing four lengths behind Codex in the Preakness after...

- Final time for the Alabama was 2:04.08, the final quarter went in a reasonable :25.09, and both Proud Spell and Music Note earned a career-top Beyer speed figure of 101 for their game efforts. But while Music Note ran essentially the same race she did winning the Coaching Club American Oaks, Proud Spell progressed considerably from her hard-fought win in the Delaware Oaks last month. No question she showed greater tractability and gutsiness, but I do wonder how much Javier Castellano taking Music Note back early and then wide around the final turn affected the finish, given the "deliberate"...

King George winner Duke of Marmalade may not run in the Juddmonte International at York due to the prospect of heavy ground.

Calls to action aren’t new to The Jockey Club Round Table conference, but at this year’s meeting Aug. 17 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., there appeared to be a sense of urgency. Public percepti...

Derby hero New Approach and King George winner Duke of Marmalade are set for a mouthwatering showdown in Tuesday's Juddmonte International at York. The two Irish aces will get an extended four-day ...

Kanpur/New Delhi, Aug 17 : As more and more people are getting hooked onto the sport of horse racing and polo, lots of opportunities for the Indian leather industry are opening up one of them being the equestrian industry.

HENDERSON, Ky. -- The 4-year-old filly Swift Temper, who had lost 10 straight races, might have been a long shot at 21-1 in yesterday's $150,000 Gardenia Handicap at Ellis Park. But jockey Victor Lebr...

Proud Spell caught leader Little Belle at the quarter pole, then held off the charge from Music Note down the stretch.Proud Spell, ridden by Gabriel Saez and trained by Larry Jones, ran 11/4 miles in ...

Tale of Ekati was going into the Jim Dandy a bit short, so it came as no surprise to him when the horse tired to fourth despite making the lead turning for home. But with that race under his belt a...

Favored Ide Like a Double rallied gamely to win the $200,000 Evangeline Mile by one length in an Evangeline Downs track-record time the night of Aug. 16. Ridden by Kerwin Clark, the 3-year-old Lous...

VIDEO ), registered a 42-1 shocker with a big finishing kick for jockey Alex Solis on the turf Aug. 16. Trained by Paddy Gallagher, the Kentucky-bred 3-year-old daughter of Diesis scored her first ...

The Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. (OBS) will test the yearling market with quantity at a time when some buyers might be cutting back on their purchases because of America’s struggling economy....

Proud Spell entering the winner's circle after the Alabama. It was something to see trainer Larry Jones, waiting for Proud Spell to gallop out, with a quiver in his jaw, blinking back tears threatening to break. Photographers pressed and congratulations flowed; he paced in the Saratoga dirt and tried to smile. He couldn't stand still, he couldn't speak, his filly had won the Alabama and done so tenaciously, digging in to get to the wire first by a head over favored Music Note. "If Eight Belles were here," said a reporter leaning against the rail, his back to the...

is my number one for the race, having run a marvellous trial when second to stablemate Sanbuch at Goodwood last time. Cumani was hardly being cryptic when he said afterwards: 'I think Sanbuch will hav...

Christophe Clement . The Grade 2 Del Mar Derby is run over 1 1/8 miles on turf and will be the longest race of Sky Cape's career. The La Jolla was run over 1 1/16 miles. "That wasn't the origina...

Bob Benoit, whose career in racing spanned high-level positions in track management, publicity, and photography, died on Friday at a Los Angeles-area hospital from complications of pneumonia. He was 8...

Gottcha Gold , pushed by Kiss the Kid, led the field to mid-stretch on the inside, where he gave way to the pressure. The charging Honest Man, ridden by Terry Thompson, took control over Kiss the Kid ...

Marc Keller's Grand Couturier had to check under Alan Garcia at the top of the lane, but re-rallied, split horses in mid-stretch, and drew clear to win the $500,000

, Swift Temper was third through the backstretch, took over from pacesetter Miss Atlantic coming off the turn, and easily drew clear in the stretch. She stopped the clock in 1:37.55 in the one-mile Ga...

- Nice way to start a career: Former Dale Romans assistant Elizabeth Gray earned her first win as a trainer in race two this afternoon with 7-1 Obsequious, her second starter to date. The 2-year-old Fusaichi Pegasus filly making her debut was most admirable, snatching the lead early and dueling down the stretch with second-place finisher Abundantia. Final time for the 5 1/2 furlong MSW was 1:05.78. - Honorable Miss winner Any Limit is out of next Sunday's Ballerina, due to a flare-up of an old injury. Trainer Allen Jerkens said the mare might be start next in the Gallant...