Wandering Eyes

Michael Freedman doesn’t have to worry about fulfilling the Jockey Club's performance criteria, but every winner helps as he tries to build some momentum for next season. The Australian trainer registered his 14th winner of the season with Fiama at Sha Tin on Sunday and while those around him on the premiership table throw everything into the final handful of meetings to get to the 16-win mark and avoid a dreaded strike – three strikes means a loss of licence – instead,... View the full article

Michael Freedman doesn’t have to worry about fulfilling the Jockey Club's performance criteria, but every winner helps as he tries to build some momentum for next season. The Australian trainer registered his 14th winner of the season with Fiama at Sha Tin on Sunday and while those around him on the premiership table throw everything into the final handful of meetings to get to the 16-win mark and avoid a dreaded strike – three strikes means a loss of licence – instead,... View the full article

A new set of blinkers gave the Medaglia d'Oro filly wings, and she snapped a six-race losing streak in Canada's most prestigious classic June 30 to win her first race of the 2018 season. View the full article

Madaket Stables, Ten Strike Racing, and Steve Laymon's Long On Value closed late to just nab Lady Alexandra at the wire in the $250,000 Highlander Stakes (G1T) at Woodbine. View the full article

Alter Moon's five-length victory in the $75,000 Azalea Stakes June 30 at Gulfstream Park gave her sire, Alternation, his first stakes winner. View the full article

Like so many of his stakes wins, Rockingham Ranch and Gelfenstein Farm's speedy 6-year-old gray X Y Jet shot to the lead in the six-furlong sprint Saturday, opened up a clear lead, and kept on to the wire unchallenged. View the full article

Grade 1 winner Itsmyluckyday was represented by his first winner June 30 when Cohenscollegefund sped to a 4 3/4-length win in a 4 1/2-furlong maiden special weight race at Evangeline Downs. View the full article

Heavy favorites took high-profile juvenile stakes June 30 at Churchill Downs. View the full article

A new set of blinkers gave the Medaglia d'Oro filly wings, and she snapped a six-race losing streak in Canada's most prestigious classic to win her first race of the 2018 season. View the full article

Heavy favorites take Churchill Downs' high-profile juvenile stakes. View the full article

All hail Julius Caesar as Peters claims training honours View the full article

Peters shows his Oscar-worthiness with two winners View the full article

Streetwise hits the road running at 3YO series fourth Leg View the full article

Juglall over the Moon to be back on Gold Cup hopeful View the full article

Track conditions and course scratchings July 1 View the full article

Horses' body weights July 1 View the full article

Early scratchings July 1 View the full article

In her first start for trainer Steve Asmussen June 30, Santa Anita Oaks (G1) winner Midnight Bisou simply cruised around the main track at Belmont Park. View the full article

After Stronach Stables' homebred Delta Prince won the $175,000 King Edward Stakes (G1T) at Woodbine in his first start in 10 months, his connections can't help entertaining thoughts of unlimited potential. View the full article

In her first start for trainer Steve Asmussen June 30, Santa Anita Oaks (G1) winner Midnight Bisou simply cruised around the main track at Belmont Park. View the full article

A new set of blinkers gave the Medaglia d'Oro filly wings, and she snapped a six-race losing streak in Canada's most prestigious classic to win her first race of the 2018 season. View the full article

In her first start for trainer Steve Asmussen June 30, Santa Anita Oaks (G1) winner Midnight Bisou simply cruised around the main track at Belmont Park. View the full article

It was no surprise trainer Chad Brown won the $300,000 United Nations Stakes (G1T) June 30 at Monmouth Park, but the horse who crossed the wire first was a stunner. View the full article

Making his Grade I debut and duly dismissed at odds of 23-1 despite some progressive form, Three Chimneys Farm’s FUNTASTIC (c, 4, More Than Ready–Quiet Dance, by Quiet American) jumped straight into the lead from the inside stall, was rated along nicely by Antonio Gallardo through six furlongs in 1:13.52, pinched a bit of a break into the lane and had just enough left in the tank to hold off his favored stablemate Money Multiplier (Lookin at Lucky) to win Saturday’s United Nations S. at Monmouth Park. The latter raced too freely through the opening five-eighths of a mile, settled better in the middle stages and stayed on well to complete the exacta. Stakes-placed last year at three Funtastic hit the board in his first two appearances this season, but was exiting a facile 12-furlong Belmont allowance win May 26. Funtastic is not only a half-brother to the late Horse of the Year Saint Liam (Saint Ballado), but is also kin to Monmouth Grade II winner Quiet Giant (Giant’s Causeway), the dam of reigning Horse of the Year and new Three Chimneys stallion Gun Runner (Candy Ride {Arg}). The further female family includes More Than Ready’s GI Mother Goose S. winner Buster’s Ready and MGSW Lull (War Front). Funtastic is the 22nd worldwide Group 1/Grade I winner for his wildly successful stallion and his first Grade I-winning turf male in the United States. He is the 86th graded winner and 189th black-type winner for More Than Ready and achieved his feat just minutes after Sir Truebadour won the GIII Bashford Manor S. at Churchill Downs. Lifetime Record: 9-4-2-1. O-Three Chimneys Farm; B-Besilu Stables LLC (KY); T-Chad Brown. View the full article

SIR TRUEBADOUR (c, 2, More Than Ready–Kivi, by King of Kings {Ire}), a full-brother to $1.8-million earner Regally Ready, doled out hot splits but kept on going to win the GIII Bashford Manor S. by about three lengths in 1:12.77 Saturday. Huge longshot Mr Chocolate Chip (Biondetti) was second off a graduation score at Belterra Park, while Overanalyzer (Overanalyze) rallied to further spice up the exotics in third. Named a ‘TDN Rising Star’ off a four-length debut romp here May 17, the $300,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga grad was looking to atone for a fourth-place run in the June 8 Tremont S. at Belmont. Lifetime Record: 3-2-0-0. O-Whispering Oaks Farm LLC. B-Two Stamp Stables (Ky). T-Steven M Asmussen. View the full article