Favored El Areeb made it three straight stakes wins, and burnished his Kentucky Derby resume, with an easy score in the Withers Stakes today.
What’s on tap: four Midlantic-breds in graded stakes, including two on the Derby trail.
El Areeb, from the Cal Lynch barn, headlines Saturday’s G3 Withers, the next step on his hoped-for road to the Kentucky Derby.
Good horses found buyers Sunday at the Fasig-Tipton mixed sale, but the market remains “polarized” — and there’s a need for regional “sire power.”
Arrogate, dominant winner of Saturday’s Pegasus World Cup, is the number one horse in the country, the first NTRA poll of ’17 says.
Buybacks were up and the average, down, but the good news was that the gross at today’s Fasig-Tipton Mixed Sale was up 2.7 percent from last year.
We talked to five consignors bringing sizable contingents to Sunday’s Fasig-Tipton mixed sale. Here are their horses to watch.
Consignor Bill Reightler has 62 hips for Sunday’s Timonium sale — the largest consignment by far and one with options for every pocketbook.
Sunday’s Fasig-Tipton mixed sale has a much larger book than in 2016, and consignors are hoping for the best even as the national market has lately struggled.
Longtime assistant starter Dominic Garibaldi has fought off cancer and a near-fatal motorcycle accident. Now he’s finding his way back to the game he loves.