Showing posts with label Pachattack. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pachattack. Show all posts

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Sights from the Spring Meet at Keeneland

2012 Blue Grass Stakes winner Dullahan.

Trainer Peter Eurton places a reassuring hand on She's Cheeky before the mare ran second in the Grade 1 Vinery Madison Stakes on April 12.


Trainer Andrew McKeever oversees his charges paddock schooling two days before their April 14 races: Daisy Devine, who won the Grade 1 Jenny Wiley...
...and Street Serenade, a three-year-old Street Sense colt who won a maiden special weight.

Last season's two-year-old champion Hansen, prior to the April 14 Blue Grass which was won by...
Dullahan, seen here in the saddling enclosure with his game face on for trainer Dale Romans.
Jockey Kent Desormeaux splashes water on the Blue Grass winner.
Reigning Horse of the Year Havre de Grace parading in the paddock on April 15.
Dayatthespa, prior to winning the April 19, Grade 3 Appalachian Stakes -- the filly's third consecutive stakes win for trainer Chad Brown.
Somali Lemonade, a Grade 3 winner at Keeneland last fall for Michael Matz, about to run second in the Appalachian, her season debut.
Kentucky Derby hopeful Went the Day Well gallops on April 20, the day before breezing at Keeneland for trainer Graham Motion.
This colt threw his rider and went for a solo spin as Went the Day Well was just finishing up on the track.
Grade 2 stakes winner Air Support breezing a half-mile for trainer Shug McGaughey in :48.00 on April 20.
Pachattack was brimming with her sire Pulpit's hot blood in the paddock prior to winning the April 20 Hillard Lyons Doubledogdare Stakes-G3...
...and was even more of a handful for jockey Rajiv Maragh and Graham Motion's assistant David Rock on her way to the track...

Friday, October 7, 2011

It's opening day of the fall season at Keeneland

Just one hour away until Keeneland kicks off its’ 75th anniversary fall meet!

Fall barn scene at Keeneland.

Two-year-old filly Tu Endie Wei has made the trek from Canada to run in today's Grade 1 Darley Alcibiades S. Trained by Reade Baker, she is 2-for-2, both stakes wins.
Tu Endie Wei.
Group 3 winner Theyskens' Theory (trained by Shug McGaughey), cross-entered in the G1 First Lady S. on Saturday and the G1 Spinster S. on Sunday.
Wasted Tears (Bart Evans) grazing the day before her scheduled start in the G1 First Lady S.
Together (a daughter of Galileo), over from Ireland for Aidan O'Brien. The three-year-old finished second in two Classics this year, the English 1,000 Guineas and Irish 1,000 Guineas. She, too, runs in the First Lady on Saturday.
Shotgun Gulch, winner of April's Grade 1 Vinery Madison S., switching leads on the track at Keeneland. Oklahoman C.R. Trout bred, owned, and trains this filly, who runs in the Thoroughbred Club of America S.-G2 on Saturday.
Aruna (trained by Graham Motion) galloping at Keeneland. She runs in the G1 Spinster S. on Sunday.
Aruna.
Pachattack, European filly who was 2nd in the Grade 1 Personal Ensign H. at Saratoga in her last start. The Gerard Butler-trainee starts in the G1 Spinster.
Grade 2 winner Well Monied, another Spinster entrant, is in town from California for trainer Howie Zucker.
Random horses working in tandem over the training track.