Horse Racing News is the source of thoroughbred racing information with horse racing odds, betting tips, racing picks, race results, and handicapping. Latest news and articles on top horse racing contenders, jockeys, trainers, three-year-olds, race tracks, and major stakes races such as the Triple Crown races: the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes as well as the Breeders' Cup horse races.Curlin Has Final Work For Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park September 27
Posted on Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Reigning Horse of the Year Curlin had a “perfect” workout Monday morning in his final move before attempting to become the first American race horse to break the $10 million mark in Saturday’s 90th running of the $750,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup Invitational (G1) at Belmont Park.
Under regular exercise rider Carlos Rosas, the 4-year-old Stonestreet Stable colt covered a half-mile in an easy 51.85 on the Oklahoma training track at Saratoga. Curlin went in fractions of 13 and 25.70 while galloping out five furlongs in 1:06.15 over the fast training track.
The 2007 Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Curlin, who enters the 1 1/4-mile Jockey Club Gold Cup with earnings of $9,796,800, is on the verge of breaking the legendary Cigar’s money-earning record of $9,999,815, which has stood for 12 years. The Jockey Club Gold Cup winner’s share of $450,000 would vault him past Cigar with a total bankroll of $10,246,800.
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Curlin Could Make Horse Racing History In the Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park September 27
Posted on Sunday, September 21st, 2008
In Saturday’s 90th running of the $750,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup Invitational (G1) at Belmont Park, Stonestreet Stable’s reigning Horse of the Year Curlin could become the first American Thoroughbred to reach $10 million in earnings.
The 2007 Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Curlin has earned $9,796,800 and trails only Cigar, who earned $9,999,815, as horse racing’s top money-earner. The winner’s share of the Jockey Club Gold Cup purse is $450,000, and that would vault Curlin to the top of the money pile. Second ($150,000), third ($75,000) or fourth ($37,000) would leave Curlin short of Cigar’s mark.
The biggest weekend of Belmont Park’s Fall Championship Meet continues on Sunday, September 28, with a card featuring 3 graded stakes races. And, as with Saturday’s Jockey Club Gold Cup Day card, those races are certain to have an impact on the Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Santa Anita on October 24-25.
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Commentator, Student Council Among Nominees For Massachusetts Handicap
Posted on Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Commentator, 2-time winner of Saratoga‘s Whitney Handicap, and Student Council, winner of this year’s Pimlico Special, are among the list of nominees for the $500,000 Massachusetts Handicap at Suffolk Downs.
The 66th running of the Massachusetts Handicap or MassCap is one of the 2008 Breeders’ Cup Challenge events on Saturday, September 20. Aside from the $300,000 winner’s share, the MassCap winner will also be part of the Breeders’ Cup field for the October 25 Breeders’ Cup Classic at Santa Anita Park.
Hailing from the barn of Hall of Fame race horse trainer Nick Zito, Commentator has been assigned high weight of 122 pounds in the Massachusetts Handicap. Nick Zito has indicated he will race horse Commentator in the MassCap.
Student Council is one of four nominees for race horse trainer Steve Asmussen. Student Council will be carrying second high weight of 117 pounds in the Massachusetts Handicap which remains under consideration by his connections.
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Curlin Draws Post Position 5 In The Woodward at Saratoga August 30
Posted on Thursday, August 28th, 2008
2007 Breeders’ Cup Classic winner and Horse of the Year Curlin drew post position 5 post in a field of 8 and was made the 3-5 morning-line favorite for Saturday’s $500,000 Woodward Stakes at Saratoga Race Course.
The 4-year-old regarded as the world’s best horse on dirt, Curlin, goes for his 6th straight win on that surface in the 1 1/8-mile Woodward, a winning streak interrupted last month when he was asked to race on grass for the first time and finished second in the Man o’ War Stakes at Belmont Park.
Jockey Robby Albarado, who has ridden Curlin throughout his career, has the mount and a victory in Saratoga‘s Woodward will put the colt, whose earnings stand just short of $9.5 million, at the threshold of $10 million and in position to surpass Cigar by season’s end as the all-time leading money winning thoroughbred.
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Saratoga Opening Weekend Stakes Schedule
Posted on Friday, July 18th, 2008
Saratoga Race Course will open its 140th horse racing season on Wednesday, July 23.
On Saturday, July 26, the 81st running of the $750,000 Whitney Handicap (G1) is the feature on a full card that includes two other Grade 1 horse races and a Grade 2 race, all part of the Breeders’ Cup Challenge “Win and You’re In” series where the winners will automatically become Breeders’ Cup entries.
On Sunday, the $500,000 Jim Dandy (G2) for 3-year-olds at 9 furlongs, features Da’Tara, upset winner of the Belmont Stakes on June 7, when he ruined Big Brown‘s chance to become racing’s 12th Triple Crown winner.
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