For the management team behind Acclamation, the choice was between the July 17 Grade III, $100,000 Sunset Handicap on closing day of the Hollywood Park meeting, or the July 23 Grade I, $300,000 Eddie Read Handicap on the opening weekend at Del Mar. The decision: scratch from the Sunset and gear up for the Read, […]
The Del Mar Thoroughbred Club’s J. Terrence Lanni has died at age 68. Lanni, who had been a member of the DMTC’s board of directors since 2001, passed away July 14 at his home in Pasadena, Calif., after a long battle with cancer. Lanni was also the former chairman and CEO of MGM Mirage, having […]
Starting Wednesday, July 20, the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club will begin its 72nd racing season, led by a veteran team of racing officials. At the helm will be DMTC’s executive vice president, racing and industry relations, Tom Robbins, who also serves as the track’s director of racing and racing secretary. This will be his 31st […]
Torrential rain and severe winds damaged at least nine barns at Churchill Downs Racetrack in Louisville, KY, last night displacing about 150 horses and 100 backstretch workers housed on the premises, according to Associated Press. As a result, the track will be closed for live racing at least through today, though training will take place […]
The 2011 Triple Crown season was all about the underdogs, with yet another longshot, Ruler On Ice, winning the 143rd Belmont Stakes June 11. The 24-to-1 shot broke the wire three-quarters of a length ahead of Stay Thirsty. Shackleford, who three weeks earlier won the Preakness Stakes as a 12-to-1 shot, finished fifth. Animal Kingdom, […]
Shackleford scuttled the chances for a 2011 Triple Crown, as the first to cross the wire at the 136th running of the $1 million Preakness Stakes, May 21 at the Pimlico race course in Baltimore. He beat the favorite, Kentucky Derby-winner Animal Kingdom, by a half-length, as the race unfolded before 107,398 fans. The chestnut […]
Twenty-to-one shot Animal Kingdom won the 137th Kentucky Derby on May 7 in a 2 ¾-length victory over second-placed Nehro. Mucho Macho Man finished third. A total of 19 horses competed for a piece of the $2.2 million purse as a record 164,858 spectators packed Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. Archarcharch pulled up lame but […]
Eating a piece of apple pie is probably the last thing you’d expect a big-time jockey like Mike Smith to be doing on his day off. But maybe Smith figured he’d earned it. His most famous mount, Zenyatta, had just won the Eclipse Award for 2010’s Horse of the Year, and Smith had already put […]
The historic art deco race palace known as Hollywood Park, in Inglewood, Calif., has thrown open the starting gate on its spring concert series, with music under the stars most Friday nights through May. The track, which was opened in 1938 by the Turf Club under the chairmanship of Harry Warner of Warner Bros., and […]
