He’s not in any discomfort in any way, shape, or form. It’s the hardest thing that I ever had to do, but I could never taken that horse and run him. Maybe he would have won the race, maybe he wouldn’t be any worse, but now that I know, I just couldn’t do that to him. He’s meant too much to me and he’s a tick off.
“I came here to run. I came here to train, and I came here to run. I really wanted to do it, and I’m really glad that we did.”
He’s ready to run and I don’t want to sit around and not run him. I don’t think it’s affected him, but you don’t know that until you run,”
“He had a routine gallop, trained great this morning, and about an hour after training he started acting like he was uncomfortable in the stall,”
Wise Dan makes it second year running in the $2 million Gr1 Breeders’ Cup Mile
One of our greatest racehorses of years gone by played a key role in last Saturday evening’s Eclipse Awards held at the Sport Of Kings Theatre at Gulfstream Park Racetrack and Casino in Hallandale Beach, Florida.
Despite its fascinating festival of upsets, this year’s Breeders’ Cup confirmed the “star” status of a couple horses and potential stardom for a few others.
A crowd of 55 123 attended the second and final day of the Breeders’ Cup this past Saturday. Billed as the world championship of thoroughbred racing, it was a memorable day, despite only three favourites winning in nine races.
The R1 million Gr1 Douglas Whyte Stakes Grade is the opening leg of the projected R15 million Pick 6 pool at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Sunday
A Cape jockey has told of the enormous relief and the burden lifted from his shoulders on Friday after two well-known racing men took the cudgels up on his behalf some months ago to defend the father of four against an NHRA charge
A Pick 6 carryover of R2 million is set to take the exotic pool to R15 million, while the World Pool Gr3 Gold Cup sees a Quartet carryover of R1 million and a likely pool of R5 million
