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Busy stakes weekend with the Big ‘Cap, San Felipe, Gotham and Tampa Bay Derby
POSTED: March 5, 2021
It's a coast-to-coast stakes buffet this weekend with 255 Kentucky Derby qualifying points on the line. The San Felipe, Gotham and Tampa Bay Derby all...
Godolphin’s Essential Quality now 7-2 favorite in pool 4 Kentucky Derby Future Wager
POSTED: March 2, 2021
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Godolphin’s 2-year-old champion and winner of the $750,000 Southwest Stakes (Grade III) Essential Quality was made the 7-2 morning line favorite in...
BC Juvenile Champion Essential Quality Runs Them Down In Southwest Stakes, Remains Unbeaten
POSTED: February 27, 2021
HOT SPRINGS, AR (Saturday, Feb. 27, 2021) – Reigning Two-Year-Old Champion Essential Quality capped a huge day for owner Godolphin, LLC with an impressive victory...
Stakes action springs into the weekend
POSTED: February 27, 2021
31 stakes this weekend, 15 graded, with 102 Kentucky Derby Qualifying points on the line. Gulfstream offers a full day of stakes with nine stakes,...
Road to the Derby extends to a trio of races led by return of Essential Quality in Fountain of Youth
POSTED: February 25, 2021
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – With just nine weeks remaining until the first Saturday in May, the Road to the Kentucky Derby will continue this weekend with...
Claiming game, good or bad for Thoroughbred Racing, How the IRS changed the sport from breeding to race to breeding to sell
POSTED: February 25, 2021
On this Past the Wire TV show Jeff Metz and Jonathan Stettin talk about whether the long standing practice of running claiming races in the...
Champion Essential Quality, undefeated Life Is Good, 8-1 co-individual favorites in Kentucky Derby future wager pool 3
POSTED: February 9, 2021
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Godolphin’s Eclipse Award-winning colt Essential Quality and CHC Inc and WinStar Farm’s undefeated $100,000 Sham Stakes (Grade III) winner Life Is Good...
Spendthrift Farm acquires ownership interest in Keepmeinmind
POSTED: February 7, 2021
LEXINGTON, Ky. – B. Wayne Hughes’ Spendthrift Farm has acquired fifty-percent ownership interest in the 3-year-old colt Keepmeinmind, winner of the Kentucky Jockey Club S....
326 early nominees for Triple Crown topped by champion Essential Quality
POSTED: February 4, 2021
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Led by 2-year-old champion and two-time Grade I winner Essential Quality, a total of 326 3-year-old Thoroughbreds were made eligible to compete in this...
