LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 4, 2023) – Eleven of the most memorable, significant, and reflective events from the last 12 months of Thoroughbred racing in North America are up for the 2022 FanDuel Racing-NTRA Moment of the Year, a distinction determined by fan voting and recognized at the Eclipse Awards.
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Meet Beverly Park, the Winningest Racehorse of 2022
Throughout 2022, Beverly Park faced the starter no less than 30 times. And in 15 of those races, the big bay, a throwback to the iron horses of racing’s heyday, found the winner’s circle, making him the first horse since the invincible Rapid Redux (19 straight wins in 2011) to capture more than 13 races in a season. “His front legs are just as cold and tight as any young horse,” trainer Norman “Lynn” Cash said.
Recruiter, Girl Trouble Capture Rescheduled Parx Juvenile, Futurity Stakes
A pair of $75,000 stakes were held at Parx Racing on Tuesday, Dec. 3, which had originally been slated for 2-year-olds in the last week of 2022, but had to be postponed due to weather. The newly-turned 3-year-olds raced seven furlongs on a sloppy main track in Bensalem, Penn., fillies in the Parx Futurity and males in the Parx Juvenile.
Girl Trouble dominated the Parx Futurity by 5 1/4 lengths, her third straight win and fourth overall for trainer Robert Reid, Jr. She led nearly throughout and was in-hand late under jockey Paco Lopez.
Racing for Swilcan Stable LLC and LC Racing LLC, the New Jersey-bred daughter of Fast Anna completed the seven furlongs in 1:27.78. Girl Trouble, now an earner of $202,500 with four wins from seven starts, was a $15,000 purchase at the 2021 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern Fall Yearling sale.
One race earlier, Recruiter remained undefeated through four starts when he won the Parx Juvenile by 2 3/4 lengths under Mychel Sanchez. Trained by Cathal Lynch for owners Nick Sanna Stables LLC & Lynch Racing LLC, the son of Army Mule completed seven furlongs in 1:26.75.
A $125,000 buy at last year's OBS June sale, Recruiter has now won two stakes races, one in Maryland and this one in Pennsylvania, for career earnings of $170,100.
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Reigning Quarter Horse World Champ Danjer Concludes 6-Year-Old Season With 10th Grade 1 Victory
Danjer concluded his 6-year-old campaign with a three-quarter length victory in Saturday's Grade 1, $309,000 Championship at Sunland Park.
Owned by Downtime Enterprises LLC, Billy G. Smith, and trainer Dean Frey and aided by a reported 15-mph tail wind, Danjer covered 440 yards in :20.620 while recording a 120 speed index. James Flores rode the gelded son of champion Fdd Dynasty.
Danjer was bred in Oklahoma by Frey, and he was just three weeks removed from his second-place finish, 1 1/4 lengths behind winner Empressum, in Quarter Horse racing's richest and most prestigious race for older runners, the 440-yard, $750,000 Champion of Champions (G1) at Los Alamitos. The gelding has won 20 of 33 races — including 16 of 23 at the classic quarter-mile distance — and the $157,000 winner's share of the purse from his 15th career stakes victory bumped his lifetime earnings to $2,244,068.
Danjer's 10 career Grade 1 wins include this year's 440-yard, $300,000 Albuquerque Fall Championship (G1) at Albuquerque Downs, 440-yard, $250,000 Debbie Schauf Remington Park Championship (G1) at Remington Park, and 440-yard, $270,000 Bank of America Challenge Championship (G1) at Horseshoe Indianapolis.
KJ Desparado finished second while banking the $70,000 runner-up share of the purse. The gelding's career bankroll totals $2,776,103, placing him second, just $5,262 behind Ochoa ($2,781,365) on the sport's all-time leading earners list.
Flash Bak ran third and was followed by Instygator, Hesa Party Wagon, and Political Thinker.
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