Articles posted May 5, 2009

Twilight Meteor Retired From Racing

• May 5, 2009
• Thoroughbred Racing

Graded stakes winner Twilight Meteor has been retired from racing, it was announced May 5 by John Fort of Peachtree Stable.

Overdose Could Miss Start in England

• By The Associated Press
• May 5, 2009
• Thoroughbred Racing

Overdose, the unbeaten racehorse who has become a national hero in Hungary, could miss his debut in England because of sore feet.

Musket Man Likely for Preakness

• By The Associated Press
• May 5, 2009
• Triple Crown

Musket Man, the third-place finisher in the May 2 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I), will likely run in the May 16 Preakness Stakes (gr. I).

I Want Revenge Injury More Serious

• By The Associated Press
• May 5, 2009
• Thoroughbred Racing, Triple Crown

The injury that kept I Want Revenge out of the May 2 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) will keep him from racing for months and threaten his career if he doesn't respond well to therapy, the horse's veterinarian said May 5.

Desert Party Will Have Bone Chip Removed

• By The Associated Press
• May 5, 2009
• Thoroughbred Racing, Triple Crown

Desert Party, who finished 14th in the May 2 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I), will have surgery to remove a bone chip in his left front ankle

Elusive Quality to Shuttle to Brazil

• May 5, 2009
• Thoroughbred Breeding, International, Kentucky

Elusive Quality, North America's leading sire the year his son Smarty Jones won the 2004 Kentucky Derby (gr. I) and Preakness Stakes (gr. I), will to shuttle to Stud TNT in Brazil.

Derby Winner Primes for Preakness

• May 5, 2009
• Triple Crown, Northeast Region, West Region, Kentucky

Mine That Bird, winner of the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) for Double Eagle Ranch and Buena Suerte Equine, back-tracked to the paddock tunnel and then 'loped' once around a "fast" Churchill Downs main track Tuesday before the renovation break.

Mr. Fantasy to Run in Met Mile

• By Steve Haskin
• May 5, 2009
• Thoroughbred Racing

Mr. Fantasy, winner of the Withers Stakes (gr. III), will make his next start in the $600,000 Shadwell Metropolitan Handicap (gr. I) May 25, West Point Thoroughbreds' president Terry Finley said Tuesday.

Inside Track: Another Special Rachel

• By Jason Shandler
• May 5, 2009

The best story of Kentucky Derby weekend was 7-year old Rachel Mattson and Kentucky Oaks winner Rachel Alexandra.

Haskin's Derby Recap: Rare Bird Sighting

• By Steve Haskin
• May 5, 2009
• Triple Crown

Well, we saw one bird fly over the rainbow. The vast majority of experts and racing fans were astounded, aghast, and amazed at Mine That Bird's otherworldly performance in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I), in which he took off on a demonic dash as if he were being chased by a swarm of angry hornets.

Fasig-Tipton to Offer Derby Winner's Sibling

• By Deirdre B. Biles
• May 5, 2009
• Triple Crown, Thoroughbred Sales, Northeast Region

A Yonaguska half-brother to Kentucky Derby Presented By Yum! Brands (gr. I) winner Mine That Bird has been added to the catalog of the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic sale of 2-year-olds in training. The auction will be held May 18 and 19 at Timonium in Maryland. It starts two days after the running of the May 16 Preakness Stakes (gr. I), in which Mine That Bird is scheduled to compete.

All-Turf Handle Quadruples at Atlantic City

• By Tom LaMarra
• May 5, 2009
• Northeast Region

The New Jersey racing scene shifts to Monmouth Park May 9 after kicking off with a six-day Atlantic City Race Course meet at which total handle quadrupled.

La Ville Rouge and her 2009 colt.

• May 5, 2009

Hoof Wall Separations and Quarter Cracks

• By Christy West, TheHorse.com Webmaster
• May 5, 2009
• Horse Health

Farrier Ian McKinlay, who received some notoriety in 2008 for his work patching Big Brown's feet, discussed his experiences with patching wall separations and quarter cracks so high-performance horses can go on with their work at the 2008 American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) convention, held Dec. 6-10 in San Diego, Calif.