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According to Trikari's profile page on Equibase, Saturday's win at Churchill Downs is his second first-place finish of the season and third in his career. He has a career-earnings of $541,890. He ...
The Jeff Ruby Steaks (a homophone of the word Stakes, for commercial reasons) [1] is a Grade III American thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds at a distance of a one and one-eighth miles on the synthetic track in late March at Turfway Park in Florence, Kentucky.
Officially the Betfred Oaks, it is also popularly known as simply The Oaks. It has increasingly come to be referred to as the Epsom Oaks in both the UK [ citation needed ] and overseas countries, although 'Epsom' is not part of the official title of the race.)
In 2017 the race was run once in February, and then again on December 26 (opening day of the Santa Anita winter-spring meet) to serve as a prep race for the Pegasus World Cup. [ 2 ] In November 2024 Santa Anita renamed the race in honor of Hall of Fame jockey Laffit Pincay Jr. , who won the San Antonio five times over three decades.
The Grand Slam of Thoroughbred racing is an informal name for winning four major Thoroughbred horse races in one season in the United States. The term has been applied to two configurations of races, both of which include the races of the Triple Crown —the Kentucky Derby , Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes —and either the Travers Stakes ...
The owners of Sheepshead Bay Race Track, and other racing facilities in New York State, struggled to stay in business without betting. [78] However, further restrictive legislation was passed by the New York Legislature in 1910 which resulted in the deepening of the financial crisis for track operators and led to a complete shut down of racing ...
The Iroquois Steeplechase (also known as the Iroquois Hurdle Stakes) is an American Grade I NSA sanctioned steeplechase race run each May at Percy Warner Park in Nashville, Tennessee. The race dates back to 1941 and has been held annually, except in 1945, due to World War II , and in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic . [ 1 ]
In 2022 Goodnight Olive was undefeated in four starts. Coming off of a layoff of seven months, she won allowance/optional claiming sprints at Belmont Park and Saratoga Race Course before being entered into the Grade I Ballerina Stakes, which she won by 2 + 3 ⁄ 4 lengths at odds of 5-1 under the lowest weight of 118 pounds. [6]