Classic winner might run off with Horse of Year honor, too
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When Smarty Jones was breezing through the first two legs of the Triple Crown with no hint of an early retirement, he appeared to have a lock on Horse of the Year honors.
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Azeri, who was Horse of the Year in 2002, won divisional titles in 2002 and 2003, and this year became North America&#39;s winningest female runner of all-time in purse money, was
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In 2002, owner Michael Paulson was desirous of running Azeri in the Breeders&#39; Cup Classic, but trainer Laura de Seroux talked him out of it.
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It is final tuneup time for quite a few horses on the road to the Breedersâ Cup at Monmouth Park on Oct. 27. The Haskell Invitational winner Any Given Saturday tops a field of five in todayâs Brooklyn Handicap, while Grasshopper, the Travers Stakes runner-up, is the favorite in a 10-horse field for the Super Derby at Louisiana Downs. Also, Octave takes on seven rivals in the Fitz Dixon Cotillion at Philadelphia Park as she continues her run to the $2 million Breedersâ Cup Distaff. Overshadowed by her stablemate Rags to Riches (out for the year with an injury), Octave won the Mother Goose and the Coaching Club American Oaks before finishing third in the Alabama in her previous race.
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Trainer D. Wayne Lukas announced yesterday he will enter champion mare Azeri against the males in Saturday's Breeders' Cup Classic at Lone Star Park, but she'll have to be better than good to defeat defending champion Pleasantly Perfect. A son of Pleasant Colony, Pleasantly Perfect overcame a serious illness to develop into a monster, and he ...
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Azeri will try to beat the boys again, this time in the &#36;4 million Breeders' Cup Classic. Trainer D. Wayne Lukas made the surprise announcement Tuesday, declaring 2002 Horse of the Year Azeri "all in" for the 1 1/4-mile Classic on Saturday.
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Azeri will try to beat the boys again, this time in the $4 million Breeders&#39; Cup Classic. Trainer D. Wayne Lukas made the surprise announcement Tuesday, declaring 2002 Horse of the Year Azeri &quot;all in&quot; for the 1\\-mile Classic on Saturday.
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Somewhere among nearly 100 horses getting ready to run in the eight Breeders&#39; Cup races Saturday at Lone Star Park, Jerkens the &quot;Giant Killer&quot; has two contenders.
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It's a go for Rags to Riches. The fabulous filly will run Saturday in the Belmont Stakes, where she will attempt to become the first of her sex to win the final jewel of the Triple Crown in 102 years.
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GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Leave it to D. Wayne Lukas to add intrigue to an appealing Breeders&#39; Cup Classic. By entering Azeri in today&#39;s $4 million Classic, the Hall of Fame trainer is taking a huge gamble that
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The horse who received the most votes in Eclipse Award balloting wasn't Horse of the Year and handicap champion Ghostzapper or top 3-year-old colt Smarty Jones. That honor went to top 2-year-old filly Sweet Catomine.
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Most thoroughbred championships are decided by the end of a typical Breeders&#39; Cup day, and Saturday&#39;s eight championship events at Lone Star Park probably succeeded in that mission.
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The $4 million Classic, the feature event on Saturday&#39;s Breeders&#39; Cup card at Lone Star Park, just got tougher. Already loaded with talent
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NEW KENT, Va., July 21 -- When jockey Horacio Karamanos arrived at Colonial Downs on Saturday morning, he knew he had mounts in nine of the 10 races scheduled. The one race the leading rider at the track was left out of was the big one, the Grade II $1 million Virginia Derby, but that changed whe...
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Now that the Breeders&#39; Cup Classic is over, there&#39;s one more big race left -- the one for horse of the year. It&#39;s Ghostzapper, winner of America&#39;s richest race in record time, against Smarty Jones, the retired Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner.
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After the cancellation of a walking-horse championship, concerns are  being raised about how those high-stepping horses are treated
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Azeri, who was Horse of the Year in 2002 and one of top females in thoroughbred racing history, was retired from competition and will be sent to Kentucky to be bred.