Bahamian Squall came $21,600 closer to his first million-dollar season yesterday when Bahama Pearl went wire-to-wire racing six furlongs at Pimlico under J. D. Acosta. The healthy check boosted Bahamian Squall’s earnings for 2022 to $983,014, and he went over $2.6 million lifetime. Bahama Pearl jumped out to the …
Tijuana Racing Stables and Juan Pablo Silva, owners and trainer of Free to Run, couldn’t have been upset when they found out there were four scratches from yesterday’s fifth race at Mountaineer Casino & Resort, leaving their filly with just two opponents in the five-furlong race. When the trio broke from …
Each time Running Memories sets foot on the racetrack. she makes Don Dizney’s $20,000 OBS July purchase price in 2020 look like a greater bargain. At Gulfstream Park yesterday, with Edgar Perez aboard and carrying 125 pounds, the 4-year-old daughter of Bahamian Squall scored a hard-earned victory in the North Miami, …
Sun Squall won a race at six furlongs at Prairie Meadows yesterday and added three milestones to the resume of Bahamian Squall. The 5-year-old gelding bred by Sunshine Thoroughbred Corp. became (1) Bahamian Squall’s 23rd winner of 2022, (2) the sixth of the stallion’s runners to pass $100,000 in earnings, and …
After a slow beginning to her career, in which she went 0-1-1 in her first 10 starts, Island Winter has turned it all around and continued her excellent recent streak with a narrow victory in a 5 1/2-furlong race at Thistledown yesterday. With the victory, the 3-year-old Bahamian Squall filly bred by Don …
With the dearth of horses prevalent at so many of the nation’s racetracks, owners and trainers with sound runners have been taking full advantage of the situation. At Monmouth Park yesterday, Bahama Pearl made her 13th start of the year for owner MCA Racing Stable and trainer Claudio Gonzalez, and they were rewarded …
Three scratches reduced the field to five in Friday’s sixth race at Gulfstream Park, and it left the tote board looking like it was devised by someone who doesn’t understand pari-mutuel wagering; two horses at 2-1, two at 5/2, and one at 25-1. The second choice at 2-1 was Assertiko, a …
Bahamian Squall edged a little closer to his first million-dollar season when Island Magic made a stunning “first to last” run to win the second race at Gulfstream Park yesterday. Red-hot Miguel Vasquez, who is the best in South Florida at getting his mounts to the finish line first from seemingly …
It took a change of venue after four starts in Florida for Bahamian Dude to reach his best form. Since arriving in Canada, the 4-year-old gelding bred by Don Dizney has recorded two victories and a second, including yesterday’s score at Fort Erie in which he achieved his best Equibase ‘E’ speed figure …
In an era where so many jockeys think that swinging their mounts four and five wide on the final turn is a formula for success, Addiel Ayala showed them yesterday that the shortest way to the finish line is on the rail. Ayala was aboard Bahamian Park in a 6 1/2-furlong …