GRAND PRAIRIE, Tex. – Of all the 101 horses pre-entered in the Breeders’ Cup Saturday, one horse – and one horse alone – has the potential to light up the skies like a new star in the firmament. That ...
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Twenty years ago this week, Birdstone became the anti-hero of the Belmont Stakes. It had been 26 years since America had seen a Triple Crown winner, and that drought was ...
Sheikh Mohammed’s agent, John Ferguson, went to $400,000 to acquire a son of Birdstone as the top-priced offering at the opening session of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July yearling sale in Lexington ...
SARATOGA SPRINGS — The connections of Summer Bird are probably hoping for better weather this Saturday than when his sire ran in the Travers — but the same result. Five years after Birdstone shocked ...
Following a five-furlong workout earlier this week at Oaklawn Park, trainer Mark Casse said John Oxley's Noble Bird continues to progress toward his first major objective this year, the $750,000 ...
Next ridden by jockey Luan Machado easily wins the 1 3/4 mile Birdstone Stakes at Saratoga Race Course Sunday in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Photo Special to the Times Union by Skip Dickstein SARATOGA ...
The look on trainer Nick Zito’s face, shocked and bewildered, said it all after his beloved Birdstone straggled home a well-beaten fifth as the 3-5 favorite in Saturday’s Grade 2, $500,000 Lane’s End ...