Horses Articles

California Chrome ready for Dubai World Cup

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Arcadia, CA (SportsNetwork.com) – California Chrome, the 2014 Horse of the Year, will be leaving for his next start in the $10 million Dubai World Cup without any preliminary race. Trainer Art Sherman confirmed the March 28 event will be […]

Golden Years gets season underway in Miracle Wood Stakes

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Laurel, MD (SportsNetwork.com) – Golden Years, winner of the Marylander Stakes, will begin his 3-year-old season in Monday’s $100,000 Miracle Wood Stakes at Laurel Park. The one-mile Miracle Wood has attracted eight 3-year-olds and has an approximate post time of […]

Smarty Jones winner Far Right versus 11 in Southwest Stakes

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Hot Springs, AR (SportsNetwork.com) – A solid field of a dozen 3-year-olds, including the top three from last month’s Smarty Jones Stakes, has been entered in Monday’s $300,000 Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn Park. The 1 1/16-mile Southwest is a local […]

Del Mar’s drainage system gets update with new dirt track

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Del Mar, CA (SportsNetwork.com) – Approximately 15,000 tons worth of blue granite stones have been removed from Del Mar’s main track as the conversion continues to a dirt track from synthetic. All of the synthetic Polytrack material that made up […]

Beholder getting closer to season debut

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Arcadia, CA (SportsNetwork.com) – Champion mare Beholder is getting ever closer to making her 5-year-old debut after missing last year’s Breeders’ Cup Distaff with an illness. Hall of Fame trainer Richard Mandella indicated Thursday that the two-time Eclipse Award winner […]

Warren’s Veneda gains favorite’s role for Santa Maria Stakes

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Arcadia, CA (SportsNetwork.com) – Paseana Stakes winner Warren’s Veneda is the 5-2 morning line favorite versus nine other fillies and mares for Saturday’s $200,000 Santa Maria Stakes at Santa Anita. Trained by Craig Lewis, Warren’s Veneda will start the 1 […]

J S Bach to get acid test in Southwest Stakes

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Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) – Supertrainers Bob Baffert and Steve Asmussen have won five of the last six runnings of the Southwest Stakes. Meanwhile, Todd Pletcher, the other supertrainer, has zero wins. The last time Pletcher ran a horse in the […]

Up the Backstretch: Spotlight on Golden Gate field

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Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) – For horsemen and their thoroughbreds, getting to the Kentucky Derby on the first Saturday in May usually doesn’t entail taking a detour to Northern California. Most Kentucky Derby hopefuls do their preliminary work in New York, […]

Mischief Clem comes north for El Camino Real

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Berkeley, CA (SportsNetwork.com) – Trainer Bob Hess is sending Cal Cup Derby winner Mischief Clem north for Saturday’s $200,000 El Camino Real Derby at Golden Gate Fields. The El Camino Real Derby is part of the “Road to the Kentucky […]

Thegirlinthatsong returns in Santa Maria Stakes

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Arcadia, CA (SportsNetwork.com) – La Canada Stakes winner Thegirlinthatsong heads a field of 10 fillies and mares in Saturday’s $200,000 Santa Maria Stakes at Santa Anita. Thegirlinthatsong, trained and co-owned by Hall of Famer Jerry Hollendorfer, will start the 1 […]