Could This Finally Be The Proposal To Bring Rachel Alexandra And Zenyatta Together?
Many tracks and many officials have tried and all have failed. So the most recent attempt to get the two top horses in the sport on the same track at the same time could be laughed off as another swing and a miss—until one realizes that the two sides are fairly receptive to the...
To Race Or Not To Race? That Is Zenyatta’s Question
Perhaps the news that she has been selected as one of only two finalists for Horse of the Year, Zenyatta has began to workout over the past few weeks and it is looking more and more likely that the six-year old filly phenom will be taking to the track again soon. Following her big...
Going Out On Top?
In many venues of entertainment, performers will tell you that it is best to go out on top. To be at the top of your game when an athlete retires, a popular television show ends or even a comedian ends his or her set after leaving the crowd in stitches. So if it is indeed true that...
Zenyatta Steps Into History
The $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic race went how most people thought it would, but it does not take away from the amazing effort or the amazing horse that ran it. Zenyatta went into Saturday’s race and emerged from the race also undefeated. She has now won 14 straight races...
Breeders’ Cup Takes Shape
The excitement is in the air at Santa Anita as the Breeders’ Cup prepares to get underway. The star of the show leading up to the weekends races will be Zenyatta, who is perfect in 13 races against her fellow females and will be running against the boys for the first time in the...
Sea the Stars will not be in the Breeders’ Cup and announces his retirement
Trying to attract attention away from football and the start of basketball season has been the Breeders Cup Classics goal leading up to the November 7-8 races, but so far they have struck out, in fact so much one of the best horses in the world retired, ending any speculation of his...
Zenyatta Deciiding Between Breeders’ Cup Races
The hottest horse in racing continues to blister her competition as she won her 13th straight race last Saturday at the Lady’s Secret Stakes, but the question is now becoming will the megastar race in fall’s biggest event in the sport, the Breeders’ Cup Classic and which race...
Breeders’ Cup Next For Sea The Stars?
After being rebuffed by one of the best and most popular horses in the world, Rachel Alexandra, the organizers of this year’s Breeders’ Cup are looking for another world-renowned horse. And that horse may be Sea the Stars, whose, no pun intended, star is on the rise after a two-length...
Rachel Still A No-Go Despite Increase In Purse For Breeders
Despite the enticements, Jess Jackson is not budging on his potential Horse of the Year’s status for the rest of 2009. It is still a no-go. Last week, after winning the Woodward Stakes on September 5, becoming the first female to win the race and the first three-year old to beat...
Summer Bird s Big Win May Be Followed By Gold Cup
Summer Bird’s follow up to his big victory in Saturdays $1 million Shadwell Travers Stakes will likely be the $750,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park, thus allowing the horse to remain in, and train in, New York. That race, to be held on October 3, would likely be Summer Bird’s...