Live Racing Cancelled' was a familiar sign at Santa Anita early January, as drainage problems with the Cushion track caused the loss of 11 racing days.
Photo: Benoit
Russell Baze rode his 10,000 winner on Feb. 1 at Golden Gate Fields.
Photo: Bill Vassar
Intangaroo won her first of three 2008 grade I's in the Santa Monica.
By a vote of his peers, jockey Richard Migliore became the 59th recipient of the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award.
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A company based in Dubai and headed by a close associate of Sheikh Mohammed purchased Fasig-Tipton, North America's oldest Thoroughbred auction company.
Photo: Anne M. Eberhardt
Colonel John took the Santa Anita Derby to claim the honor of best 3-year old in the west leading into the Derby.
Peppers Pride took the Russell & Helen Foutz Distaff Handicap on April 26 to equal Thoroughbred racing's modern day record of 16 consecutive victories.
Photo: Robbi Large/Coady Photography
Proud Spell splashed to victory in the Kentucky Oaks.
Jockey Jeremy Rose was suspended for 6 months (later reduced to 3) and forced to complete an anger management course by Delaware Park stewards for his misuse of the whip on Appeal to the City.
Photo: Anne M. Eberhardt
Da' Tara scored a stunning upset in the Belmont Stakes, as Big Brown was eased