Current Tag: Hit the Road
Grade I Winner Hit The Road Falters In Comeback
POSTED: January 1, 2023
Hit the Road and jockey Umberto Rispoli win the Grade III, $100,000 Thunder Road Stakes, Saturday, February 6, 2021, at Santa Anita. (Benoit Photo) ~...
Three Santa Anita based horses finish final works for their Pegasus World Cup Turf races
POSTED: January 23, 2022
ARCADIA, Calif. –Three Santa Anita-based horses finished final preparations for a pair of graded stakes to be run this Saturday at Gulfstream Park. Trainer Dan...
Hit The Road and Bodhicitta Prepare for Pegasus World Cup
POSTED: January 16, 2022
ARCADIA, Calif. (Jan. 16, 2022)–Trainer Dan Blacker’s Grade I stakes winning Hit the Road and the Richard Baltas-conditioned Bodhicitta, a Grade II winner, both worked...
Hit The Road a standout in Sunday's Grade II San Gabriel Stakes at Santa Anita
POSTED: December 21, 2021
Trainer Dan Blacker’s Grade I winning Hit the Road figures prominently in Sunday’s Grade II, $200,000 San Gabriel Stakes as a field of seven 3-year-olds...
Hit the Road is out of the Breeders' Cup Mile
POSTED: November 5, 2021
HIT THE ROAD has been scratched from tomorrow's Breeders Cup Mile due to spiking a fever. This is disappointing news, but we all recognize that it...
Heavily favored Mo Forza is on his way to the Breeders’ Cup as he rallies to win Grade II, $200,000 City of Hope Mile by half a length
POSTED: October 3, 2021
ARCADIA, Calif. (Oct. 2, 2021)–Although the situation appeared dire with a furlong to run, heavily favored Mo Forza rallied late to overcome a three length...
Hit the Road revs up for Maker’s Mark Mile; New Boss and Tobys Heart ready to take charge in TVG Limestone Turf Sprint
POSTED: April 8, 2021
LEXINGTON, KY.—In 2013, in his second year of training on his own, Dan Blacker saddled four runners during Keeneland’s Spring Meet. “I didn’t have the...
Hit The Road gives trainer Dan Blacker his first G1 in an exciting battle to the wire to win the Frank E. Kilroe
POSTED: March 7, 2021
ARCADIA, Calif.—In a thrilling head and head battle to the wire, trainer Dan Blacker’s Hit The Road prevailed by a neck over 5-2 favorite Smooth...
Smooth Like Straight faces Eastern shippers on the turf in the $400K Frank E. Kilroe Mile
POSTED: March 4, 2021
ARCADIA, Calif.—In what may be the best betting race of the day, trainer Michael McCarthy’s Smooth Like Strait heads a deep and competitive field of...
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