Aqueduct's Training And Stabling Will Move To Belmont

On Thursday, the New York Racing Association announced that all stabling and training of racehorses will move from Aqueduct Racetrack to Belmont Park. The shift will take place on Jan. 1. Glen Kozak, NYRA's vice president of facilities and...

Bodexpress Will Make Pegasus Audition In Harlan's Holiday

Bodexpress has run in multiple graded stakes races, and he will do it again in Harlan's Holiday. When he was a maiden, he finished as the runner-up in the Xpressbet Florida Derby (G1). In the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (G1), he drew in late. That came before his well-known run in the Preakness Stakes (G1), where he unseated jockey John Velazquez after rearing in the gate and ran with the field. After winning in his two starts since the Preakness, Bodexpress will...  Read More

KHRC Makes Race-Day Lasix Policy Changes

The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission decided to go forward with a partial Lasix phaseout at its Dec. 9 meeting in Lexington. A vote was held to move the proposal into the regulation process. The proposal is to run 2-year-old races without Lasix starting on Jan. 1, 2020, as well as to run stakes races without Lasix beginning Jan. 1, 2021. It was recommended by the Kentucky Equine Drug Research Council, which is a branch of the KHRC responsible for making recommendations about medication...  Read More

Queen Bee To You Takes Bayakoa

Even after only getting three weeks of rest, Christopher St. Hilaire and Adam Vali's Queen Bee to You closed out her season with her first grades stakes win. She took the $100,351 Bayakoa Stakes (G3) Sunday at Los Alamitos Race Course. "We were (worried she was coming back too quick), and she's probably going to get 60 to 70 days off now," St. Hilaire said. "She's earned it, obviously. She's in such good form right now. We were in that pocket, and we wanted to stay there." Coming into...  Read More