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Grade I Winner Winter Memories Retired

Grade I Winner Winter Memories Retired

Phillips Racing Partnership's Winter Memories, a millionaire daughter of El Prado, has been retired from racing due to a degenerative bone condition in her ankle and will begin a broodmare career at Darby Dan Farm.

 Thursday, August 09, 2012
Winter Memories Accelerates to Capture Diana

Winter Memories Accelerates to Capture Diana

Phillips Racing Partnership's homebred Winter Memories accelerated coming off the second turn and continued on for an impressive victory in the $600,000 Diana Handicap (gr. IT).

 Saturday, July 28, 2012
Zagora in Tough to Defend Diana Title

Zagora in Tough to Defend Diana Title

Zagora won the Diana Stakes (gr. IT) in 2011, but the 5-year-old mare faces a steep challenge this time around at Saratoga Race Course as Tapitsfly, Winter Memories, Hungry Island, and two European invaders join the fray.

 Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Winter Memories Rolls to Easy Beaugay Victory

Winter Memories Rolls to Easy Beaugay Victory

Grade I winner Winter Memories started her 2012 season in fine form with a 2 1/4-length win in the $150,000 Beaugay Stakes (gr. IIIT) at Belmont Park, giving jockey Eddie Castro his 2,000th North American victory.

 Saturday, May 05, 2012
Winter Memories: 'Everything Is Good'

Winter Memories: 'Everything Is Good'

Winter Memories began her stellar 2011 campaign in April with a win at Keeneland and she could end the year the same way in the 28th running of the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Stakes (gr. IT) Oct. 15.

 Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Surging Winter Memories Captures Lake George

Surging Winter Memories Captures Lake George

With an eye-catching burst down the middle of Saratoga's inner turf course, odds-on choice Winter Memories reminded many of her dam, Memories of Silver, in winning the $150,000 Lake George Stakes (gr. IIT) July 27.

 Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Winter Memories, More Than Real Clash at Spa

Winter Memories, More Than Real Clash at Spa

More Than Real, who handed Winter Memories the only defeat of her career in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (gr. IIT), square off again in the $150,000 Lake George Stakes (gr. IIT) July 27 at Saratoga.

 Sunday, July 24, 2011
Winter Memories Romps in Sands Point

Winter Memories Romps in Sands Point

Phillips Racing Partnership homebred Winter Memories served notice May 30 with an emphatic score in the Sands Point Stakes (gr. IIT) for 3-year-old fillies at Belmont Park May 30.

 Monday, May 30, 2011
Winter Memories Explodes in Miss Grillo Win

Winter Memories Explodes in Miss Grillo Win

Winter Memories remained perfect in two starts when she used an electrifying move at the top of the stretch to pull away for an eye-catching 5 1/4-length victory in the $150,000 Miss Grillo Stakes (gr. IIIT) at Belmont Park.

 Sunday, October 03, 2010
Virginia Derby Full of Familiar Faces

Virginia Derby Full of Familiar Faces

Many racing officials at Colonial Downs, weary of Central Virginia downpours, may have to pardon trainer James Toner if he does a rain dance Saturday morning before the $750,000 Virginia Derby (gr. IIT). His trainee, Sailor's Cap, will attempt to defeat eight others in the 1 1/4-mile contest for 3-year-olds on the turf.

 Monday, July 14, 2008

Masseuse Shows Her Muscle in Dance Smartly

Masseuse rallied from just off the pace to capture the CAN$304,900 Dance Smartly Stakes (Can-II) for fillies and mares by a nose at Woodbine Sunday.

 Sunday, July 22, 2007

Masseuse Keeps Working to Win Beaugay 'Cap

Masseuse, ridden by Edgar Prado, drove determinedly to victory in the $113,600 Beaugay Handicap (gr. IIIT) on a yielding turf course at Aqueduct Saturday, defeating a stubborn Stormy Kiss by a neck.

 Saturday, April 28, 2007

Delaware Park's Robert Dick Memorial Oversubscribed

Grade II winner Honey Ryder tops a large field of fillies and mares set for Saturday's $300,000 Robert G. Dick Memorial Breeders' Cup Handicap over the turf at Delaware Park.

 Tuesday, July 12, 2005

Unbridled's Song Filly Equals Midlantic Juvenile Record, Brings $450,000

Ivywood Angel, a racy-looking Unbridled's Song filly with a big white blaze, equaled the record for the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic sale of 2-year-olds in training when she brought $450,000 Tuesday during the auction's second session at Timonium, Md.

 Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Wonder Again to Arrive Early for Breeders' Cup

Wonder Again, a multiple Grade I winner who took the Diana Handicap at Saratoga by more than five lengths, will be among the early arrivals at Lone Star Park for the Oct. 30 Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships.

 Thursday, October 07, 2004

Wonder Again to Freshen Up after Diana Win

Wonder Again, winner of yesterday's Grade 1 Diana, will be getting a break from afternoon racing according to trainer Jimmy Toner.

 Sunday, August 01, 2004

Wonder Again Dominates in Soggy Diana

Wonder Again got the yielding turf trainer James Toner was hoping for and under patient handling from Edgar Prado, she registered an easy 5 3/4-length victory in the $500,000 Diana Handicap (gr. I) at rainy Saratoga Race Course Saturday.

 Saturday, July 31, 2004

Coney Kitty Skirts Inquiry, Wins Hillsborough

Coney Kitty survived a steward's inquiry and a jockey's objection to record a neck victory over Madeira Mist in the $100,000 Hillsborough Stakes (gr. IIIT) on the Tampa Bay Downs turf.

 Sunday, March 14, 2004

Wonder Again Faces Five in WinStar Galaxy

Joan and John Phillips' Wonder Again, fresh off a game victory in the Noble Damsel Handicap (gr. IIIT) at Belmont Park, will face five rivals in the $500,000 WinStar Galaxy (gr. IIT) to be run Sunday on the Keeneland turf course.

 Friday, October 03, 2003

Wonder Again Faces Full Field in Noble Damsel

The $100,000 Noble Damsel Stakes (gr. IIIT) for fillies and mares at one mile Saturday drew a field of 12, with one entered for the main track only.

 Thursday, September 18, 2003

Ellie's Moment Takes Big A's Rare Treat

John and Joan Phillips' Ellie's Moment opened her 2003 campaign Wednesday by running down favored front-runner Pocus Hocus to win the $77,075 Rare Treat Handicap for fillies and mares at Aqueduct Park.

 Wednesday, February 19, 2003

Wonder Again Prevails in Garden City Handicap

Favored Wonder Again held off fast-closing Riskaverse by a half-length to win the $233,000 Garden City Breeder's Cup Handicap (gr. IT) for 3-year-old fillies Sunday at Belmont Park.

 Sunday, September 08, 2002

Wonder Again Prevails in Garden City Handicap

Favored Wonder Again held off fast-closing Riskaverse by a half-length to win the $250,000 Garden City Breeder's Cup Handicap (gr. IT) for 3-year-old fillies Sunday at Belmont Park.

 Sunday, September 08, 2002

Wonder Again Prevails in Garden City Handicap

Favored Wonder Again held off fast-closing Riskaverse by a half-length to win the $250,000 Garden City Breeder's Cup Handicap (gr. IT) for 3-year-old fillies Sunday at Belmont Park.

 Sunday, September 08, 2002

I'm Indy Mood Wins Sloppy Glens Falls

With all scheduled turf races after the fourth race switched to the main track due to rain, I'm Indy Mood rallied from off the pace to win the $110,200 Glens Falls Handicap by a neck over 1999 Glens Falls (gr. IIIT) winner Idle Rich Friday at Saratoga. The race, originally scheduled as a 1 3/8-mile event on the inner turf course, was run at 1 1/4 miles on a sloppy main track.

 Friday, August 11, 2000