Sentences with phrase «racing fillies»

Deauville, however, is scarcely an escape, for there he looks over the racing stock that he and Frances run in France, and he also tries to find a few promising racing fillies at the Deauville sales.

2) A hard - raced filly will make a poor broodmare because she has left most of her energies on the racetrack.

Not exact matches

Despite Ruffian's many successes, her demise may have been a significant setback for fillies» lib because, in the view of some, that tragic race serves to illustrate what can happen when you send a girl out to play with the boys.

Also, fillies generally don't have to race as often or for as long a time as colts do.

This confirmed for many horsemen the adage that a race - worn filly will not be a good producer.

Horsemen and racing fans often equate a filly with a woman and a colt with a man; it's a given that human males are physically stronger than females, but the discrepancy isn't nearly as great in the equine world.

Big, beautiful and nearly coal black, Ruffian was the first filly media star, but in a match race in 1975 with the colt Foolish Pleasure, winner of that year's Kentucky Derby, Ruffian snapped a leg and had to be put down.

Says LeRoy Jolley, trainer of 1980 Kentucky Derby - winning filly Genuine Risk, «The difference between the two sexes as far as horse racing goes is that a filly only has to win one major stakes race in her life [to demonstrate exceptional breeding potential], whereas a colt, to be valuable as a stallion, has to be a top - rated performer almost every race of his life.

His great filly Lady's Secret — who was raced hard, beat colts and was voted Horse of the Year in 1986 — is in foal to Alydar.

In fact, Genuine Risk was the first filly in 21 years even to enter the race — and her trainer, Jolley, and owners, Bert and Diana Firestone, debated for days over whether to send her.

Although her last start was two months ago, Sunset Glow won the Del Mar Debutante — a familiar result for the filly, who has three wins and two runner - up finishes in five races this year.

HORSE RACING — DEARLY PRECIOUS ($ 4.20), Mike Hole riding, won the $ 105,205 Sorority Stakes for 2 - year - old fillies by 2 1/4 lengths over Optimistic Gal at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, N.J..

HARNESS RACING — SILK STOCKINGS ($ 3.00), driven by Preston Burris Jr., set a world record for fillies and mares with a 1:57 [3/5] clocking over the half - mile Monticello Raceway.

Regardless of whether Silver Spoon enters the Derby, or the previous day's Kentucky Oaks (for 3 - year - old fillies only), or neither race, she is properly bred to beat almost anything at almost any distance.

Should Silver Spoon, with so many rich opportunities ahead in the filly and mare races, risk getting hurt by bigger and stronger horses in the Derby?

HORSE RACING — This year's best 3 - year - old filly, LAMB CHOP ($ 2.60), with Manuel Ycaza up and carrying top weight of 126 pounds, easily won the Firenze Handicap at Aqueduct by two lengths.

On July 5, 1975, Janney drove north to Belmont Park racetrack to watch his parents» unbeaten filly Ruffian run a nationally televised match race the next day against Kentucky Derby winner Foolish Pleasure.

Resaca dusted off Silver Spoon and Quill in a spirited filly race, pointing out the values of a jockey who rides to orders

A champion who was very nearly crippled a few days before the race takes charge of the Kentucky Derby of standardbred pacing — and prevents a filly from upsetting a nine - year - old tradition

Five minutes earlier, in the second race at Pimlico, a 1 [1/16]- mile claiming event for cheap fillies and mares worth $ 8,000 - $ 8,500, So Sly and jockey Frank Douglas were racing sixth in a field of nine, moving three wide as they charged around the far turn.

Of the 100 foals arriving each year, all the colts are usually sold as un-raced 2 - year - olds, along with all but about 15 fillies, who are first raced and then retained for the stud.

• Although neither Talon nor Miche has produced a top runner — and the American offspring of Tatan and Arturo A. have yet to race — Endeavour II (imported in 1947) has produced winners of over $ 4 million, including the 1953 2 - year - old champion Porterhouse; Rex Ellsworth's fine handicap star, Prove It; the filly Big Effort; and, most recently, the 1967 Santa Anita Handicap winner, Pretense.

The winners of the six other Breeders» Cup races were TASSO in the Juvenile, TWILIGHT RIDGE in the Juvenile Fillies, PRECISIONIST in the Sprint, COZZENE in the Mile, LIFE»S MAGIC in the Distaff and PEBBLES in the Turf (page 46).

One cause for conversation was Polly's Rumor, an obscurely bred 2 - year - old chestnut filly who, in her first start, won a maiden race by 21 lengths and smoked over the 5 1/2 furlongs in 1:03 [1/5](and in her second race, over six furlongs, won by nine lengths in 1:10).

In the eighth race, Tepin led the one - mile Churchill Distaff Turf Mile Stakes with only a late challenge from a soon - to - fade Maid on a Mission en route to picking up a victory in the Grade 2 race for fillies and mares four years or older.

RETIRED: From Thoroughbred racing because of a cracked sesamoid in her right hind ankle, MOCCASIN, 3, A.B. (Bull) Hancock's unbeaten 2 - year - old filly champion of 1965.

The colt and filly keep me pretty occupied for right now.I've done roping, barrel racing,...

According to an article posted on news.yahoo.com, the inspiration for the movie was a horse named Mariah's Storm, a two - year - old filly who broke her leg in 1992 but came back in 1994 to win four races and to finish ninth in the 1995 Breeder's Cup Distaff.

Despite efforts to pull her up, the «Queen of the fillies» was motivated to finish and simply refused to stop, doing irreversible damage to her leg before racing the finish line.