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Preakness Preview: Orb is Everyone's Target

Preakness Preview: Orb is Everyone's Target

Can the Kentucky Derby winner hold off eight challengers -- including five wheeling back from that race two weeks ago -- in the May 18 Preakness Stakes at Pimlico? Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey thinks so.

 3 days ago
Orb Draws Rail in Preakness Stakes

Orb Draws Rail in Preakness Stakes

Stuart Janney III and Phipps Stable's Orb, winner of the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I), drew post 1 and was made the favorite for the May 18 Preakness Stakes (gr. I), second leg of the Triple Crown.

 6 days ago
Another Hit for Successful Song in SM Distaff

Another Hit for Successful Song in SM Distaff

In what is expected to be her final start, Successful Song secured the most lucrative victory of her career when she cruised through the stretch to easily win the $300,000 Florida Sunshine Millions Distaff Stakes.

 Saturday, January 19, 2013
Tate's Landing Faces Tall Dania Beach Test

Tate's Landing Faces Tall Dania Beach Test

Tate's Landing, impressive 3 1/4-length winner of the $100,000 Laurel Futurity Oct. 27, will face a bigger test in a deeper field for the $100,000 Dania Beach Stakes (gr. IIIT) at Gulfstream Park Dec. 15.

 Wednesday, December 12, 2012
BC Participants to Support Retired T-breds

BC Participants to Support Retired T-breds

Prominent owners and trainers are stepping up to the plate to support New Vocations Racehorse Adoption Program by pledging a percentage of their purse earnings from this year's Breeders' Cup World Championships.

 Thursday, October 13, 2011
Calder Begins Season With New Pick 5

Calder Begins Season With New Pick 5

Calder Casino & Race Course will begin its 40th anniversary season April 25, with changes that include adding a Pick 5 on its last five races.

 Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Weicholz No Newcomer to 2yo Sales

Steve Weicholz isn't a newcomer to shopping at the top end of juvenile auctions. The Boca Raton, Fla., resident is the new owner of El Kingdom, whose $450,000 price topped the recent Ocala Breeders' Sales Co. March select sale of in training. Three years ago, through Bill Badgett, Weicholz purchased Justin Rules, a son of Mr. Greeley, for $525,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic juvenile auction in Maryland.

 Monday, March 23, 2009
OBS March Sale Gross Declines 38%

OBS March Sale Gross Declines 38%

The Ocala Breeders' Sales Co. closed out the two-day run of its March select juvenile auction with a bang as an El Prado colt named El Kingdom brought the sale's most expensive price of $450,000 March 18.

 Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Gulfstream Park Opens Stable Area

Gulfstream Park Opens Stable Area

Gulfstream Park and the affiliated Palm Meadows Training Center have received about 3,600 stall applications for 2,452 stalls, officials at the South Florida racetrack said.

 Monday, November 12, 2007

TOBA to Conduct Pedigree, Conformation Clinic at Calder

The Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association will hold a two-day conformation and pedigree clinic at Calder Race Course Feb. 1-2.

 Tuesday, January 20, 2004

Trainer Eddie Plesa Wins Four at Calder

Trainer Eddie Plesa, Jr. saddled four winners from five starters at Calder on Friday.

 Friday, November 21, 2003