While a number of trainers are stabled at Pimlico, only Faith Leatherman’s barn is on the front side, by the stakes barn, giving her a front row seat to history each year.
With the first weekend of MATCH Series racing in the books, our first MATCH Series Star of the Week is Switzerland, winner of the Maryland Sprint Stakes.
A Medaglia d’Oro colt who fetched $1.2 million highlighted the second day of the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic two-year-old sale.
A More Than Ready colt fetched a top bid of $750,000 to spearhead day one of the Fasig-Tipton 2-year-old sale in which over $12 million worth of horses were sold.
Three-year-old Noblame stepped up to face elders — including top local filly Moonlit Song — in the Fancy Buckles Stakes Saturday at Charles Town and proved best.
Some facts and figs about the Fasig-Tipton Two-Year-Olds in training sale taking place Monday and Tuesday in Timonium.
They came at Justify in waves in Saturday’s Preakness Stakes, but though there were four in the photo, he prevailed in the second leg of the Triple Crown.
Trainers Steve Asmussen and Graham Motion came to Pimlico this Preakness loaded for bear — and both left with important hardware.
It was five years between graded stakes wins for trainer Kellyn Gorder, who scored today in the Grade 2 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes with Red Ruby.
In his first Triple Crown race on his own, young trainer Rodolphe Brisset is making sure to enjoy the Preakness experience with his runner, Quip.
