Current Tag: Steve Asmussen
Gaffalione, Asmussen secure Churchill September meet titles while Owners' race up for grabs
POSTED: September 27, 2020
LOUISVILLE, Ky. –Jockey Tyler Gaffalione has been riding at Churchill Downs since the 2018 Fall Meet and, at the start of racing on Sunday for closing day of...
Asmussen Saddles Three In Preakness Closes In On Record
POSTED: September 25, 2020
BALTIMORE - Steve Asmussen last week became only the second trainer to win 9,000 races, the landmark win coming on Troy Ounce in the second...
Max Player headed to Preakness to complete his Triple Crown journey
POSTED: September 23, 2020
BALTIMORE, Md. – Max Player is headed to the Preakness Stakes (G1), which as it currently stands will stamp him as the only horse to compete...
145th Preakness Shaping Up to be a Full Field
POSTED: September 23, 2020
After a five month delay due to COVID-19, Pimlico opens Thursday for its 6-day meet running through Preakness Stakes Day, October 3. A week from...
Volatile Retired With Cannon Bone Fracture
POSTED: September 21, 2020
Three Chimneys Farm and Phoenix Thoroughbreds announced today that Grade 1 winner and Stakes Record setter Volatile, winner last time out in the A.G. Vanderbilt...
Pneumatic puts in a bullet work in preparation for Preakness
POSTED: September 21, 2020
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Winchell Thoroughbreds’ Pneumatic continued his preparation for the 145th Preakness Stakes (G1) on Oct. 3 with a five-furlong bullet work Monday morning...
Hall of Fame Trainer Asmussen reaches 9,000th Career win
POSTED: September 19, 2020
By MB Kalinich Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen notched his 9,000th career win Friday night at Remington Park with claimer Troy Ounce. He trails all-time leader Dale Baird by 445...
Pneumatic following similar spacing he had before Pegasus
POSTED: September 14, 2020
BALTIMORE, Md. – Two years after they finished a very close third in the Preakness with Tenfold, owner Ron Winchell and trainer Steve Asmussen will...
Undefeated Yaupon wires G2 Amsterdam for first stakes victory
POSTED: August 29, 2020
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Yaupon answered another challenge thrown his way, improving to 3-for-3 in his career by going Gate To Wire in a six-horse field...
