News Source: The New York Times
| about 1 month ago
Calif. In 2007, Kentucky racing officials found cobra venom, a powerful painkiller, in the barn of Patrick Biancone, a horse trainer with prestigious victories from Hong Kong to France...Steve Asmussen, the nation’s leading trainer , served a...
News Source: Daily Breeze
| about 1 month ago
He won the Grade 1 Turf Classic at Churchill Downs on Derby day, ran a troubled third in the Stephen Foster Handicap at Churchill six weeks later, and most recently lost by a neck to Richard's Kid in the Pacific Classic at Del Mar. Einstein, who's...
News Source: Daily Breeze
| about 1 month ago
He enjoys wagering on the ponies and relishes the challenge of trying to pick winners. So when Zenyatta, his sensational 5-year-old mare, was installed as the 5-2 morning-line favorite after being entered Tuesday to run in Saturday's $5 million...
News Source: Houston Chronicle
| about 1 month ago
N.Y. — Christopher Johnson and Laurence Ekperigin hooted and hollered as they skipped off Jim Boeheim Court, huge smiles creasing their faces and seemingly as stunned as the Syracuse Orange at what had just transpired. Johnson scored 17 of his 22...
News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner
| about 1 month ago
Zenyatta's trainer John Shirreffs talks to reporters after the Breeders' Cup draw at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif., Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009. She's a mare set to race against a dozen of the world's most daunting male horses for the first time in...
News Source: Arizona Daily star
| about 1 month ago
Calif. — Zenyatta was made the early 5-2 favorite Tuesday in a field of 13 for the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic, where she will put her 13-0 record on the line against the boys for the first time...She had also been pre-entered in Friday's $...