Shimmering Aspen Archives • The Racing Biz

Sales Tales: More Crabcakes, please

by Frank Vespe | Oct 3, 2019 | Breaking, Business, Regionwide, Top Stories | 0 |

Our Sales Tales share some of the stories from the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Fall Yearling Sale; here, Crabcakes’ little brother, who found a home in Maryland.

Shimmering Aspen retired after repeat Owners’ Day score

by Frank Vespe | Sep 28, 2019 | Breaking, DE Racing, Delaware, Racing, Top Stories | 0 |

Shimmering Aspen was retired following an easy win in Delaware Park’s Tax Free Shopping Distaff and will head to the breeding shed next year.

Delaware Park: Owners’ Day undercard report

by Press Release | Sep 29, 2018 | Breaking, DE Racing, Delaware, Racing | 0 |

Delaware Park’s annual Owners’ Day card saw a repeat winner and other strong performances.

Timonium: Shimmering Aspen finds winning ways in Distaff

by Frank Vespe | Aug 25, 2018 | Breaking, Maryland, MD Racing, Racing, Top Stories | 0 |

Shimmering Aspen snapped a three-race losing streak with a rallying score in the first running of the Timonium Distaff.

Shimmering Aspen heads Timonium Distaff field

by Frank Vespe | Aug 25, 2018 | Breeding, Maryland, MD Racing, Racing, Top Stories | 0 |

Shimmering Aspen, twice the favorite in graded stakes, will look to snap a short losing streak in Saturday’s $75,000 Timonium Distaff Stakes at the Big T.

Shimmering Aspen, Crabcakes face off in Laurel allowance

by Press Release | Jul 24, 2018 | Breaking, Maryland, MD Racing, Racing | 0 |

Popular local stakes winners Shimmering Aspen and Crabcakes will face off, each making her season debut, in an allowance Thursday at Laurel Park.

Shimmering Aspen, Noteworthy Peach look to regain winning ways

by Press Release | Dec 7, 2017 | Breaking, Maryland, MD Racing, Racing | 0 |

Three-year-old Shimmering Aspen and returnee Noteworthy Peach will look to regain their winning form in Saturday stakes at Laurel Park.

Despite odds, You Know Too “as tough as any” in Safely Kept

by Frank Vespe | Nov 9, 2017 | Breaking, Maryland, MD Racing, Racing, Top Stories | 0 |

Saturday’s Safely Kept Stakes at Laurel Park has come up rough, but for talented longshot You Know Too, it actually offers much-needed class relief.

Four scratches later, Shimmering Aspen draws into CT Oaks

by Ted Black | Sep 21, 2017 | Breaking, Racing, West Virginia, WV Racing | 0 |

When the G3 Charles Town Oaks drew more than a full gate, it looked like Shimmering Aspen would be left out. But four scratches later, all systems are go.