Saratoga’s Sword Dancer Stakes (gr. IT)was pushed back from earlier in the meet to the stakes-packed Travers day program this year and has drawn a much better field than it has in years past. The 2015 renewal has an intriguing eight-horse field headed by Twin Creeks Racing Stables’ homebred Red Rifle. .Red Rifle, a 5-year-old Giant’s Causeway gelding, won …
Trainer Mark Casse visited the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New York-bred preferred yearling sale for the first time Aug. 16 and ended up signing the ticket for a $300,000 Speightstown filly on behalf of owner John Oxley. The filly, Hip 491, was consigned by Denali Stud, agent. She is out of theMedaglia d’Oro mare Glory Gold. “(Oxley) was here earlier …
Constitution continues to catch the eyes of horsemen, clockers and spectators as he glides across the Saratoga surface, with regular exercise rider Ezequiel Perez aboard, making the 5/8 work look like a walk in the park while others struggle over the deep surface. Constitution, winner of the 2014 GI Florida Derby and 2015 GI Donn …
Trainer Todd Pletcher, who captured the first of three open graded races on the main track for 2-year-olds whenUncle Vinny was declared the winner of the July 25 Sanford Stakes (gr. III), will try for the middle jewel of the trio Aug. 16 when Twin Creeks Racing Stables’Saratoga Mischief takes on five others in the 110th edition …
Nearly unstoppable! There are many words and phrases that could describe the run Todd Pletcher is on a fifth of the way through the 2015 Saratoga Race Course meeting. Red Rifle’s 2 ½-length win over War Dancer in the Bowling Green emphasized not only the depth and strength of Pletcher’s stable, but the gelding’s own …
With four horses lined up across the course in the stretch, Red Rifle emerged from the two path and drew off to a clear victory in the $250,000 Bowling Green Handicap (gr. IIT) Aug. 1 at Saratoga Race Course. Watch Video With Javier Castellano showing the way, Twin Creeks Racing Stables homebred Red Rifle moved into the two path at mid-stretch, …
Saratoga Mischief wins his debut in style while setting the 5th fastest dirt figure of any 2yr old to date this year finishing the 5-1/2 furlongs in 104 ! 5th-SAR, $83,000, Msw, 7-25, 2yo, 5 1/2f, 1:04.23, ft. +SARATOGA MISCHIEF (c, 2, Into Mischief–Pacific Destiny, by Mr. Greeley), a $220,000 KEENOV weanling that developed into a …
Red Rifle secured his first stakes victory of the 2015 season when he rallied on the outside to win the $150,000 Dominion Day Stakes (Can-III) July 1 at Woodbine. Watch Video With the 1 1/4-length victory, Twin Creeks Racing Stables home-bred Red Rifle ended a four-race skid that dated back to his clear victory in last year’s Hawthorne Gold Cup …
It’s over! Horse racing’s 37-year affair with frustration has ended.American Pharoah lit up Belmont Park with a wire-to-wire victory in the 147th running of the Belmont Stakes on Saturday. In doing so, the 3-year-old colt ended the longest drought in Triple Crown history, 37 years, since Affirmed in 1978. And he proved that, indeed, this …
Twin Creeks Racing Stables’Red Rifle, a long-winded son of Giant’s Causeway , may fire his best shot June 5 in the $250,000 Belmont Gold Cup Invitational Stakes. The two-mile Gold Cup, run on the Widener Turf Course the day before the six grade I-race card on Belmont Stakes day at Belmont Park, has drawn a field of 10. It …
