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),...

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

Happy Farm Wins Fall Highweight

M and A Racing's Happy Farm gave trainer Jason Servis his second graded win at Aqueduct when he took the $206,100 Fall Highweight Handicap (G3) on Sunday. He took the lead in the turn for home and was able to hold off the challengers. The race was a six-furlong handicap for 3-year-olds and up, and it featured the favored Recruiting Ready, carrying 132 pounds. Originally set to run Thanksgiving Day, the Fall Highweight was rescheduled twice due to bad weather. Servis won the Cigar...  Read More