... just won the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot! 

Bloodhorse | Straight and True, Tepin Wins Queen Anne

Paulick Report | All-Time Winningest Rider Russel Baze Retires

He retires with 12,842 wins, 9,600 second place finishes and 7,855 thirds from 53,578 mounts. Horses he's ridden have earned $199,334.219. On Dec. 1, 2006, he passed Laffit Pincay Jr., who had been the sport's leading rider with 9,530 victories. His only global rival in career wins is 55-year-old Brazilian jockey Jorge Ricardo, who is believed to be within 100 wins of Baze and still active.

DRF | Outcome in Lynch Case Not Out of Line, Regulators Say

"Preakness weekend I celebrated so hard I don't even remember Sunday night. That's when I decided, 'This is too much.' That was in Baltimore," says Kent Desormeaux. "I made a phone call. I said, 'I gotta stop.' Not slow down. I tried that. I've been trying that for 15 years."

NY Daily News | Exaggerator Jockey Opens Up About Rehab After Preakness Partying

Quote from: curtis on June 08, 2016, 09:02:59 PM
You gotta wonder just what kinda joint NYRA's running there.

Funny, but just want to point out this was the New York Gaming Commission's decision.  NYRA had nothing to do with it.

Quote from: Delamont on January 06, 2014, 07:28:56 AM
Mine, too, along with Saginaw.

Can't believe they're both gone.


I took this at the 2012 Met Mile:

As per tweet from Marty McGee (@DRFMcGee)

QuoteSad news this a.m. from #Kee: Turallure, earner of $1.3M, euthanized after breaking down during gallop. CLoPresti: "Like part of my family."

RIP

Very disappointed.

Orb Retired, to Stand at Claiborne in 2014

Quote"While I believe he would have had a very successful 4-year-old campaign, and Phipps Stable and I would have loved being a part of that, Orb is a wonderful stallion prospect," Janney said in a release. "We look forward to supporting him and to racing his offspring."

Yes, thank you for sharing. It would have gotten lost amongst the BC talk.