Hall of Fame trainers Roger Attfield and Bill Mott are longtime neighbors at Payson Park in Florida, where both have a substantial string each winter.
But while Attfield will be looking for a record ninth Queen’s Plate win when he send…
The breeding rights to Champion 2-year-old and recent GI Preakness S. runner-up Classic Empire (Pioneerof the Nile–Sambucca Classica, by Cat Thief) have been acquired by Coolmore in a deal brokered by Justin Casse, brother of the colt’…
Read More >Drawn widest in the field, Happy Mesa was the beneficiary of five scratches to her inside and another to her outside and was angled over to the fence to save ground from gate seven as favored Victory to Victory (Exchange Rate) attended…
Read More >By mid-morning Monday, the Mark Casse-trained contingent of stakes horses – led by Preakness Stakes 2017 (G1) contender Classic Empire – had settled into Barn D at historic Pimlico Race Course following a 4 a.m. arrival at Old Hilltop….
Read More > A full field of 14 sophomore fillies have been signed up for the $200,000 Eight Belles Stakes Presented by Kentucky Trailer (G2) going seven furlongs at Churchill Downs May 5.
Undefeated Ghalia drew co-highweight of 120 pounds. The Med…
John Oxley’s Classic Empire, last year’s juvenile champion and winner of the Arkansas Derby (G1), was the next-to-last named announced, and drew well in post 14 for the May 6 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (G1). The son of Pio…
Read More > It had been some time since Classic Empire had the opportunity to make a statement on his own behalf.
Ever since his seasonal bow went awry and the setbacks in the aftermath piled up in exhausting fashion, there were no shortage of opi…
Sumaya US Stable’s Ghalia (Medaglia d’Oro) took her perfect record to three-for-three and registered her first black-type win Sunday when making her two-turn debut in the Sunland Park Oaks. In no hurry early, the 2-1 shot ran in second…
Read More > With 1-2 favorite Curlin’s Approval not firing, Veb Racing Stable’s Distinta closed fast to earn her first graded score by a half-length in the $200,000 Inside Information Stakes (G2) March 18 at Gulfstream Park.
The Summer Bird mare…
Classic Empire, last year’s unanimous champion two-year-old colt, has had a bumpy ride on the Kentucky Derby (G1) trail so far this year.
Diagnosed with a foot abscess after his subpar third in the February 4 Holy Bull (G2), he was a…
