Itsinthepost winning the San Gabriel Stakes (gr. II) - © BENOIT PHOTO The first of three graded stakes races on the Pacific Classic Day card is the Grade 2 Del Mar Handicap. Trainer Phil D’Amato has won 3 of the last 4 renditions and looks to make it back-to-back wins in the event after Hunt got to the wire first in last summer’s edition for owner Michael House. D’Amato sends out a trio of runners in #1 Kenjisstorm, [...]
January 09, 2016: Collected, Evers/ESW/CSM If Accelerate runs his race off a near three-month break he is going to be very tough to beat in Saturday’s one-million-dollar Pacific Classic (G1) at Del Mar. The five-year-old possesses tactical speed that should allow jockey Joel Rosario to have him in a perfect spot early, he has run over the Del Mar main track, and he has illustrated in 2018 that getting a mile and a quarter is well within his [...]
Tomorrow marks the first of three Saturday afternoon cards at Los Alamitos Race Course in Cypress, California before the Southern California circuit heads south to Del Mar. The 9-race slate does not include graded stakes action like the next two Saturday cards will with the Grade 2 Great Lady M on July 7th and the Grade 3 Los Alamitos Derby on July 14th, but it does offer some solid wagering opportunities. Amongst them is the always-popular late Pick 4. Here [...]
Turf racing at Belmont Park - Photo by Coglianese Photography Hardly a turf stakes races is run in New York these days without a starter from the barn of the two-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer Chad Brown, who is particularly renowned for his success with grass runners. Thus, it comes as no surprise to see that Brown will send out Thais in Saturday’s $100,000 Perfect Sting Stakes at Belmont Park. Hardly less of a surprise is that Thais may start as [...]
