Champion and multiple grade I winner War Pass died Dec. 24 at William S. Farish’s Lane’s End Farm near Versailles, Ky. The 5-year-old stallion had just arrived the evening before in good order from standing his second Southern Hemisphere season at Widden Stud in Australia.
The morning of his death, War Pass showed no signs of illness or injury. He was turned out in his paddock and died several hours later. Preliminary necropsy results are inconclusive.
Forget the track record time, as this is a new surface that produced ridiculous times in general.
It's the way he strides out to the wire that gets my attention.
He's a grandson of Danzig, who ran this way as well. His sire is the little success War Front.
Additionally.
The great Gulfstream meet opens today, and again TVG is not there covering.
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Forget the track record time, as this is a new surface that produced ridiculous times in general.
It's the way he strides out to the wire that gets my attention.
He's a grandson of Danzig, who ran this way as well. His sire is the little success War Front.
Additionally.
The great Gulfstream meet opens today, and again TVG is not there covering.
TVG doesn't have the rights to most of the winter-spring meets. It's HRTV's time of year.
7 Furlong track record holder Big Drama wires the field in the Mr. Prospector stakes at Gulfstream this afternoon while carrying top weight 124.
He's now the proud owner of the 6 furlongs track record as well as he whistled a 1:08.12.
He finished in front of the 3rd horse by a diminishing 17 lengths.
BTW, he did have a decent 2010 winning the BC sprint, and should be names sprinter of the year.
Big Drama set a Gulfstream Park track record on Saturday, taking the first half of what could be a big weekend on-track and off-track double.
On the track, the 5-year-old Big Drama ran six furlongs in a blistering 1:08.12 in winning the $100,000 Mr. Prospector Stakes (Grade 3).
Big Drama and jockey Eibar Coa turned back a challenge by Custom for Carlos in mid-stretch and went on to win by four lengths. He broke Gulfstream's six-furlong record of 1:08.46 that Tiger set in 2006.
``He wasn't even blowing when he came back [to the winner's circle],'' said David Fawkes, the trainer of Big Drama.
The Mr. Prospector was the first race for Big Drama since last Nov. 6 when he won the $2 million Breeders' Cup Sprint (Grade 1), at six furlongs at Churchill Downs.
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Fawkes said he is unsure when Big Drama will race again.
Gulfstream's next sprint stakes is the seven-furlong $150,000 Gulfstream Park Sprint (Grade 2) on Feb. 12.
Fawkes said the ``goal for the season'' is to get the Florida-bred son of Montbrook to the 2011 Breeders' Cup Sprint.
The race will be Nov. 5 at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky.
Yeah, they said it was a record turnout for the vote too, I'm sure that's part of why she won.
It would almost be a crime if she didn't get it one of the 3 years of the streak, and yeah it's not 'Horse of the Past Three Years' it's horse of this year, but on paper, 5 G1's aint half bad.
Yeah, they said it was a record turnout for the vote too, I'm sure that's part of why she won.
It would almost be a crime if she didn't get it one of the 3 years of the streak, and yeah it's not 'Horse of the Past Three Years' it's horse of this year, but on paper, 5 G1's aint half bad.
It was purely the effect on the sport, which is fine because that's the only reason Rachel won last year. I was resigned to Blame winning it, but I won't complain.
True, you could tell they were leaning that way after the media awards at the start - two of them were given simply for being centered around Zenyatta.
And spring can't come soon enough - after sitting here in the cold seeing all those replays of epic calls from the summer, I feel like I should be flipping to the Late Double or pouring another whiskey-tea and going in the pool.
I like Santiva (Giants'Causeway) to take the Risen Star tomorrow at the Fair Grounds.
Although 4 of the entries have either won or placed over the track (always a good thing).
One of them is the untested Machen (Distorted Humor). Dangerous.
