$200,000 Raven Run Stakes – Seven Furlongs on the dirt. #1 Never Forget – Ridden by Robby Albarado and trained by Victoria Oliver. Two starts back she easily broke her maiden, and they immediately threw her into the Grade 2 Eight Belles stakes at Churchill. She ran 3rd beaten by four lengths in a respectable […]
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Mike Cline, who recently retired from his post as Lane’s End Farm’s farm manager since that important operation’s inception in 1979, will join the Fasig-Tipton yearling inspection team for the company’s 2021 selected yearlings sales. “The Thoroughbred industry has great confidence in the Fasig-Tipton process for our selected sales,” said Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning. “We are thrilled to add an exceptional and respected horseman like Mike Cline to our inspection team. He will bring vast experience and an outstanding eye for quality horses.”
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Alex Solis might have retired from riding in 2017, but he did not retire his helmet.
Inducted into the Racing Hall of Fame in 2014, Solis is spending his time for now in Lexington and in the mornings can be found at Keeneland galloping horses for trainer Wesley Ward.
“My oldest son, Alex II, just took a job with Gainesway (as Director of Bloodstock) and my middle son, Andrew, lives here, so I am just following them and keeping up with the grandkids,” said Solis, 56. “I like to stay active and keep fit, and Wesley asked me to help out galloping horses.”
The helmet that Solis estimates he has had for 10-15 years has been back on active duty for the past couple of weeks.
“He galloped for me earlier in the year and then went back to California,” Ward said. “I told him if he wanted to help out like (veteran jockey) Julio (Garcia) that would be fine.”
And how is that new, yet experienced, hand working out?
“Unbelievable,” Ward said.
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Grupo Seven C Stable's Jesus' Team, third in the Preakness (G1) in his most recent start, has set up shop at Keeneland to prepare for a run in the $1 million Big Ass Fans Dirt Mile (G1) on Nov. 7.
“He came in early to get to know the track and acclimate,” trainer Jose D'Angelo said via text from his base at Palm Meadows Training Center in South Florida, where he has 17 horses. “He is going to breeze on the 24th and 31st and I will arrive the 22nd.”
Jesus' Team, who was third in the Jim Dandy (G2) and fourth in the Haskell Invitational (G1) prior to his Preakness run, would represent the first Breeders' Cup starter for D'Angelo, a 30-year-old native of Venezuela who began training in 2012 in his native country.
D'Angelo made the move to the U.S. in 2019 and won his first race here with his third starter in June 2019.
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