Where thoroughbreds become winners
Stuart Grant of The Elkstone Group is no stranger to top fillies. In the past few years, the Delaware attorney has owned in partnership dual Eclipse Award-winning champion Monomoy Girl and champion 2-year-old filly British Idiom. Which is why when his homebred filly Jester Calls Nojoy demolished a field of maidens Sept. 5 at Saratoga Race Course, the daughter of Maclean’s Music looked […]
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has vetoed a rule change to end the wagering coupling of entries ridden by married jockeys, or jockey coupling, reports bloodhorse.com. “The rule applies neutrally to all jockeys, without regard to gender, and is intended to enhance the wagering public’s confidence in the integrity of a race,” Hochul said in a […]
The Elkstone Group’s Too Sexy rallied strongly down the lane to make her stakes debut a winning one in Sunday’s $150,000 Floral Park, a six-furlong inner turf sprint for fillies and mares 3-years-old and up, at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y. Trained by Christophe Clement, the 4-year-old Quality Road bay entered from a similar closing effort in […]
Keeneland’s catalog of 3,594 horses in the breeding stock and weanling portion of its 78th November Breeding Stock Sale, to be held Nov. 10-19, is now online. The catalog includes 2,159 broodmares and broodmare prospects, 1,432 weanlings and three stallions or stallion prospects for this significant auction that attracts participation of leading Thoroughbred owners and breeders […]