California Flag, trained by Brian Koriner and ridden by Joe Talamo, ran away with the one million-dollar Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint on Saturday at Santa Anita Park. The locally-based grey gelding, who holds the Santa Anita turf course record for the race distance of 6 1/2 furlongs, lived up to his speedster reputation and 9-2 favourite's status with ...

ARCADIA, California (Reuters) - English raider Pounced produced a dramatic stretch run to overtake Bridgetown and win the $1 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf by three-quarters of a length at Santa Anita Park Saturday. Pounced stalked the front-running Bridgetown for much of the race before blowing past the Florida-bred Summer Stakes winner in the closing strides of the mile-long race. Ridden ...

Pounced, trained by John Gosden and ridden by Frankie Dettori, won the one million-dollar Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf on Saturday at Santa Anita Park. Dettori guided Pounced through a gap in the final straight, surging past pacesetter Bridgetown to win the one mile race for two-year-old colts and geldings. "He fought really hard for me," said Dettori, who delighted the ...

Racing at Newbury on Stan James Day was more like yachting, once defined as standing in a gale tearing up

Nor did it help when the heavens opened that my umbrella was in the stands 200 yards away and that, thanks to a back injury, I could only hobble at the pace of an asthmatic turtle.

It just wasn't ...