By Sean Morris | 07/03/2014 05:51 PM ET La Verdad made every step a winning one in the $100,000 Dancin Renee for New York-bred fillies and mares on Thursday at Belmont Park, breaking sharply from the gate and holding off a late…
Kid Cruz Rallies to Win Easy Goer Stakes
Kid Cruz benefited from a sizzling early pace to rally from last to first to defeat favored Legend by 3 1/4 lengths in the $150,000 Easy Goer Stakes on the Belmont Stakes (gr. I) undercard June 7 at Belmont Park . A 3-year-old son of Lemon…
New York-Bred Palace Secures True North Upset
Palace, formerly a $20,000 claimer, collected a victory in the $250,000 True North Stakes (gr. II) at Belmont Park June 6 and did so in a solid 1:08.29, closing into a quick pace in the six-furlong sprint before putting away 2-1 favorite Bakken by three-quarters…
History in Rice’s grasp after a lifetime of training
Linda Rice would be first female trainer to have a horse win a Triple Crown race By Don Markus, The Baltimore Sun 6:48 p.m. EDT, May 16, 2014 Linda Rice had tried college, lasting a couple of years at Penn State while realizing that studying…
Winners Circle Horse – Kid Cruz
BY RON MITCHELL Each time Steven Brandt would acquire a new horse for his Vina Del Mar Thoroughbreds, his mother, Shirley, would respond somewhat skeptically, “Oh, no, you didn’t spend more money on horses.” That is, until he informed her…
Palace Named Champion Male Sprinter for 2013
By City Zip—Receivership, by End Sweep, Palace was bred by the Peter J. Callahan Revocable Trust Dated 2/28/02. Racing for Antonino Miuccio and trainer Linda Rice, Palace won four of eight starts in 2013 and ran second three times, earning $424,250. He went…
Linda Rice Named 2013 NYB Trainer Of The Year
Linda Rice New York-bred Trainer of the Year A leading national trainer, Rice sent out five horses to win stakes in 2013, all in New York, including New York-bred champion sprinter Palace. She also conditioned Miss Narcissist to a pair of New York-bred…
La Verdad Shows Her Heels in Distaff Handicap
Front-running La Verdad left her rivals behind leaving the turn en route to her initial graded stakes win, a 3 3/4-length romp in the $200,000 Distaff Handicap (gr. II) at Aqueduct Racetrack April 19 (VIDEO). The New York-bred 4-year-old daughter of Yes It’s True sped immediately to the…
Kid Cruz Wins Tesio, Enters Preakness Picture
Former claimer Kid Cruz cemented his classic credentials April 19 when posting a dominant victory in the $100,000 Federico Tesio Stakes at Pimlico Race Course (VIDEO). The Lemon Drop Kid colt unleashed a strong outside rally in the stretch as the 6-5 choice and drew off to a…
Aqueduct: Kid Cruz eyes Illinois Derby, perhaps Preakness
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Kid Cruz will not make a last-ditch effort to make the Kentucky Derby. Kid Cruz, who impressed with an eye-catching last-to-first victory in the Private Terms Stakes at Laurel on March 8, was scratched from Saturday’s…