Trainer Jonathan Sheppard recently posted a Saratoga win for the 46th straight year. That’s a load off his back, he says, in this week’s “Spa Diary.”
Kicking off our weekly Saratoga Spa Diary, we visit with Kim Dutrow, wife of trainer Tony and integral part of a team enjoying growing success.
Spooky Mulder won 34 races and nearly $1 million. These days, home in Maryland, he’s more concerned with peppermints than finish lines.
Pat Dale said she’d cry when she left Third Regiment, a retired Thoroughbred she’s retraining. Turns out she didn’t have to, because he’s back home.
Hamp, entered in Saturday’s Grade 2 Dixie at Pimlico, carries on two legacies for Sagamore Farm: one for his namesake, and one for his dam.
Racetracks rely on a familiar formula to reach women: raise money for breast cancer, promote wearing pink. Black-Eyed Susan day goes beyond pink.
The line between therapy and abuse for horses isn’t always bright, but experts say the National Uniform Medication Program, and proper diagnosis, will help.
If the horse Camille Claudel is as talented as her French sculptress namesake, trainer Tres Abbott could have a fun season, starting in the Gulfstream Oaks.
Third Regiment’s roots are all mid-Atlantic. On Saturday, though, he’ll be in Texas, competing in the Battle of the X’s with other retired Thoroughbreds.
Someone was selling T-shirts to benefit ReRun’s Thoroughbred retirement program. Now, ReRun’s Lisa Molloy wonders, who was it — and where’s the money?