Jamie Clark

Graham Motion has won the Grade I Hollywood Derby from the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club in California before, so aims his barn’s top three-year-old turf horse in Test Score at the $300,000 contest over 1,800m on Saturday, November 29. This colt by Lookin At Lucky has already struck in the Golden State this fall when …

The fall meet at Churchill Downs brings the curtain down on a superb year’s racing in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and the long Thanksgiving Weekend begins with a bang thanks to the Grade III Falls City Stakes for fillies and mares. With a total prize purse of $400,000, some smart females tackle the 1,800m feature …

The Grade II Clark Stakes of 2025 at Churchill Downs on Friday, November 28 is one of the sports highlights of Thanksgiving Weekend in the Commonwealth of Kentucky as the track’s fall meet draws to a close. Among a field of nine in the $600,000 contest over 1,800m are a couple of horses who ran …

Drexel Hill returns to action at Aqueduct Racetrack for the $300,000 Grade II Mother Goose Stakes for three-year-old fillies over 1,800m on Saturday, November 8 after an enforced summer break. Whit Beckman’s daughter of Bolt D’Oro had a flake of chipped bone removed from her knee and now makes a comeback. The 2025 Kentucky Oaks …

Derby City Distaff heroine Kopion breaks new ground on November 1 when she runs over 1,200m for the first time in the $2,000,000 Breeders Cup Sprint during the World Championships from Del Mar. Richard Mandela’s four-year-old Omaha Beach filly seeks a third career Grade I victory out in California. Kopion’s breakthrough at the highest level …

Surface versatile Nitrogen proved herself on the dirt with Alabama Stakes success over the summer, so now goes for the $2,000,000 Breeders Cup Distaff over 1,800m at the World Championships from Del Mar on Saturday, November 1. Mark Casse’s three-year-old filly returns to California where she made the show behind Lake Victoria 12 months ago. …

Kenneth McPeek enjoyed World Championship success at the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club 12 months ago with Horse of the Year and wonder-filly Thorpedo Anna in the Distaff, but now aims another of his barn’s stars at the Breeders Cup Dirt Mile of 2025 in Mystik Dan. He drops down in distance for the $1,000,000 race …

Before attention turns to the Breeders’ Cup in California, the $200,000 Grade II Twilight Derby over 1,800m for three-year-olds takes place at Santa Anita Park on Saturday, October 25 with Test Score the headliner in a field of five.  Graham Motion’s colt by Lookin At Lucky escapes a penalty for prior top level success in the …

An intriguing editions of the $350,000 Grade III Perryville Stakes for three-year-olds over 1,400m during Keeneland’s fall meet on Saturday, October 18 features runners from Kentucky Derby day back in the Bluegrass State. Owen Almighty wasn’t disgraced when fifth past the wire in the Run for the Roses back on May 3. Earlier on the …

The Keeneland fall meet rolls on with the $400,000 Grade II Raven Run Stakes for three-year-old fillies over 1,400m on Saturday, October 18. Despite its relative proximity to the Breeders’ Cup, a dozen females (and three reserves also eligible in the event of late scratchings) run for this valuable prize in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.  …