Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom (Leroidesanimaux {Brz}) will miss the remainder of his 3-year-old season with a slab fracture, it was announced Wednesday. The Team Valor International colorbearer was originally diagnosed with a small fissure at the tip of his left hind cannon bone two weeks ago. “A second set of films has revealed a […]
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Team Valor International and The Vinery’s Pluck, who won last year’s Breeder’s Cup Juvenile Turf (gr. IIT) at Churchill Downs, will be returned to training June 28. Pluck in the spring was diagnosed with bone bruising on his canon bones, which necessitated him being turned out in a grass paddock for two months. Radiographs reviewed […]
A field of eight was entered in the Regret, including four-time stakes winner Kathmanblu. The daughter of Bluegrass Cat will be making her first start since finishing sixth in the Kentucky Oaks (gr. I). She has won three of five starts on turf, including the Sweetest Chant Stakes at Gulfstream back in January. Last November, […]
Birdrun led from start to finish going 1 ½ miles at Belmont Park to win the Brooklyn H.-G2. In doing so he beat last year’s Belmont winner, Drosselmeyer, who finished second three lengths back after being on nearly even terms at the top of the stretch. But the result was dream scenario for trainer Bill […]
Denali foaled, raised and sold Animal Kingdom zipped a half-mile in :47.76 on the Belmont Park surface June 6 as the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) winner showed his readiness for the June 11 Belmont Stakes (gr. I). The time was the fastest of 32 horses working the distance. With jockey John […]
Working seven furlongs over the Hollywood Park turf course on June 5, Bourbon Bay recorded a time of 1:26.80 in preparation for Saturday’s G1 Charles Whittingham Memorial H. “He went well, reported trainer Neil Drysdale after the drill. The five-year-old gelding, who began the year with a win in the Jan. 178 G2 San Marcos […]
BELMONT, N.Y. – Kentucky Derby winner and Preakness runner-up Animal Kingdom arrived at Belmont Park Sunday morning at approximately 7:30 a.m. in advance of a run in the Grade 1, $1 million Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park on Saturday, June 11. The 3-year-old son of Leroidesanimaux took a few laps around the shedrow before getting […]
Raised and sold by Denali, the Speightstown filly won a $52,000 optional claiming allowance for 3-year-olds and up over 7 furlongs on the turf. Exchange Funds underwent a three wide pursuit, turned for home, the widest of the a threesome closely-bunched, edged clear of them when let out in the vicinity of the three-sixteenths pole, […]
Kentucky Derby (gr. I) winner and Preakness (gr. I) runner-up Animal Kingdom will run in the $1 million Belmont Stakes (gr. I) on Saturday, June 11, trainer Graham Motion said May 27. “We just made the decision that he will be coming to the Belmont,” said Motion, speaking from the training center at Fair Hill, […]
