Current Tag: Grade 1
Undefeated Jack Christopher continues ascent in G1 Woody Stephens presented by Mohegan Sun
POSTED: June 8, 2022
ELMONT, N.Y. - Saturday’s Grade 1, $400,000 Woody Stephens presented by Mohegan Sun drew a field of six swift sophomores to sprint seven furlongs over...
Flightline, Speaker’s Corner face off in G1 Hill ‘n’ Dale Metropolitan Handicap
POSTED: June 7, 2022
ELMONT, N.Y. – The long anticipated showdown between two of the nation’s fastest racehorses, Flightline and Speaker’s Corner, will take place in Saturday’s Grade 1,...
Rougir ready to rock G1 New York
POSTED: June 6, 2022
ELMONT, N.Y. - After making the competition blush in her stateside debut, Rougir returns in Friday’s featured Grade 1, $750,000 New York, a 10-furlong inner...
8-year-old Drafted looking to add to 2022 revival in Saturday's Mr. Prospector Stakes at Monmouth Park
POSTED: June 3, 2022
OCEANPORT, N.J. – With a pair of Grade 3 victories among his first three starts this year – and a fifth-place finish in the Grade...
Santa Anita Memorial Day, Three Grade 1's
POSTED: May 28, 2022
On this episode of Past the Wire's podcast, Gate to Wire our hosts Michael Vale and Jonathan Stettin take a look at the three Grade 1 stakes...
Irish-Bred Going Global Heads Monday’s Grade I, $400,000 Gamely Stakes
POSTED: May 28, 2022
ARCADIA, Calif. —Unbeaten on the Santa Anita turf, Phil D’Amato’s Irish-bred Going Global heads a field of eight fillies and mares three and up going...
Smooth Like Strait Out To Defend Title In Monday’s Grade I, $500,000 Shoemaker Mile
POSTED: May 28, 2022
SHOE MILE IS A BREEDERS’ CUP ‘WIN & YOU’RE IN’ CHALLENGE RACE QUALIFIER ARCADIA, Calif. —With superstar jockey Flavien Prat returning from New York to...
Is the Kentucky Derby a Grade 1 race this year or next?
POSTED: February 24, 2022
Should the Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks lose graded stakes status by rule? Did Churchill Downs think through the "Bob Baffert" Kentucky Derby and Kentucky...
Flightline faster than the horses or the hype in Grade 1 Malibu opening day at Santa Anita
POSTED: December 27, 2021
FLIGHTLINE FREAKISH IN TAKING GRADE I, $300,000 RUNHAPPY MALIBU STAKES BY 11 ½ LENGTHS; UNBEATEN IN THREE STARTS, HE’LL GO TWO TURNS IN NEXT START...
