Where thoroughbreds become winners
Grant Jumps into the Fray Early at Fasig-Tipton July… The action had barely gotten rolling at Monday’s Fasig-Tipton July Breeding Stock session when Stuart Grant of The Elkstone Group went to $150,000 for Hip 421, a daughter of Too Much Bling out of stakes winner Kimbell’s Prada (Authenticate). The bid represented the third-highest price of the […]
Thoroughbred Training Spotlight: Custom Care Equine Interview with Donna Freyer of the Camden Training Center Originally called Custom Care South – the spin-off of a business started in New York, Custom Care Equine has established itself as a consistent producer of solid race horses that continue to perform year after year. Being in one spot […]
They called her “The Beast”. The bay mare was a terror to all rivals who dared face her on the track, whether it was on the dirt or on the turf. In a career that spanned almost three years, she won 14 races and became a shining symbol of her home state. This is the […]
CTC Graduate Get Smokin Wins Seek Again Get Smokin wins Grade 3 Race at Tampa Bay Downs Prior to entering the $100,000 Seek Again 4+ years race, Get Smokin trainer Tom Bush predicted the Kentucky thoroughbred would “benefit from a more compact schedule between starts”. Get Smokin proved Bush’s theory to be correct by getting […]
Social Paranoia matched a career-best 100 Beyer Speed Figure for his wide-rallying score in Saturday’s Grade 3, $150,000 Poker, a one-turn mile on the Widener turf course at Belmont Park. Trained by Todd Pletcher and reunited with Jose Ortiz, who guided the colt to victory in the Grade 3 Appleton in his seasonal debut at Gulfstream, Social […]
The Elkstone Group’s Social Paranoia, facing older horses for the first time in his seasonal debut, made a stunning last-to-first move on the far outside to outrun stablemate Sombeyay by 1 ¼ lengths and win Saturday’s $100,000 Appleton (G3) at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla. The 68th running of the one-mile Appleton for 4-year-olds and […]