My Soapbox for Equestrian Writings
Fifty years after Secretariat’s blazing run in the Belmont Stakes, we don’t have a Triple Crown winner, but we do have a few firsts. Most impressive is that Arcangel’s trainer, Jena Antonucci, became the first female trainer to win a Triple Crown race (the race series has been run since 1919), and his jockey, four-time […]
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Arrogate, who won a record 17.42 million in his short career, was euthanized at age seven after a mystery illness. He retired as horse racing’s highest earner of all-time. Although Arrowgate didn’t start racing until April of his three-year-old season, he won seven out of eleven starts, including the 2016 Travers Stakes and the 2016 Breeders’ […]
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