Share This: Sierra Leone is recognized at Keeneland for his win in the Blue Grass Stakes. He in entered in the Travers Stakes.
Ahead of the Mid-Summer Derby, you may be interested in the unique field for the 2024 edition of this stakes race. The 155th Travers Stakes is scheduled on August 24th. Find out what matters in the $1.25 million dollar Travers.
Share This: Benedictine is the best spread for your summertime race snack. Chef Horseradish gathers the ingredients.
Serve up this spread at your summertime stakes watch party or picnic. Benedictine is best for a cool snack on a warm summer day at the races. Enjoy it at home or at your favorite spot at the track. Chef Horseradish has been busy in the kitchen making your favorite racing recipes. He is ready to share his Benedictine recipe with his loyal Thoroughbred U followers. This no cook dip will be a hit and save you plenty of time for handicapping. Make some super easy and satisfying Benedictine.
Share This: Saratoga presents the 2020 Runhappy Travers Stakes.
Tiz the season to be racing! It is Travers Eve and all of the good little racing fans are receiving an early Mid-Summer Derby. The 151st edition of the Runhappy Travers Stakes is indeed the gift that will keep on giving. This Grade I Classic traditionally serves as the highlight of the Thoroughbred racing season for 3 year-old champions. That is still true but this year is so much more mysterious. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, everything is different in 2020. Horse racing has done a marvelous job withstanding a current cancellation culture. Despite alterations to the typical racing schedule, the win, place and show must go on. Tiz the Travers and the presents are the Man o’ War Cup and a post position in the Kentucky Derby!
Share This: James E. Tedd Bassett, III is a 2019 Pillar of the Turf inductee.
Saratoga Springs Race Track is “The Summer Place!” This weekend and into the next week, Saratoga is sensational with stakes, sales and ceremony. Racing at Saratoga boasts the second leg of each division of the new Turf Triple Series as well as Marylou Whitney Day and many other graded stakes. Fasig-Tipton will host “The Crown Jewel of North American Yearling Sales”, The Saratoga Sale. Moreover, the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame inducted the class of 2019!
Saratoga is happy to tie in Runhappy with the Travers and H. Allen Jerkens Stakes!
Saturday at Saratoga serves up several stakes! The Midsummer Derby is only one of seven graded stakes on the day’s card of a lucky 13 races. Five of the stakes offer an automatic berth in the Breeders’ Cup! Three stakes will be covered by NBC. Who will win the Forego, the Sword Dancer or the Travers Stakes?
Share This: New Money Honey enters the track for the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup at Keeneland.
Hello Friday! Another weekend is upon us and many racing fans will be enjoying the freshly open Summer racing at Del Mar and Saratoga. If you’re looking for a nice purse this Saturday, look no further than the Diana Stakes.
Share This: Free Drop Billy at Keeneland’s September Yearling Sale, 2016.
I won’t be home for the holiday as I will be laboring on Labor Day. Despite that, there is hope for the holiday, the Hopeful Stakes to be exact. As Saratoga winds down, the nation’s 2 year-old Thoroughbreds are racing forward.
Saratoga Springs is serving up a sweet stakes on Saturday! The 137th running of the Alabama Stakes posts at 5:40 P.M. EDT tonight and with a competitive field of 9 stakes winners there will be some surprises.
The 69 Summer Stakes are spectacular at Saratoga! This Friday, 7/21/17, live action returns to The Spa track and it will be a fast and fantastic 40 days for racing fans. Opening weekend spotlights filly and mare stakes. Some of America’s best will race including the talented, Lady Eli!
