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Bill Shoemaker, Blue Ruler, 1954 Del Mar Futurity, Del Mar Thoroughbred Club

Dominant at Del Mar: Bill Shoemaker’s Greatest Summer

On opening day of the 1954 Del Mar meet, a young rider named Bill Shoemaker was less than a month from turning 23 years old. Though still in the early chapter of what would become a storied career, the native Texan found himself the engineer of the most dominant run by any jockey that had ever competed at the seaside track.

Whitney Stakes, Breeders’ Cup Classic, Saratoga, Skippylongstocking, Highland Falls, Mama’s Gold, Sierra Leone, Disarm, White Abarrio, Contrary Thinking, Fierceness, Post Time, horse racing, trainer, owner, jockey, ABR

2025 Whitney Stakes Cheat Sheet

The $1 million, Grade 1 Whitney Stakes Saturday at Saratoga Race Course is one of the most important races in the Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic division as well as one of the marquee summertime races in U.S. horse racing.

Nysos, Breeders’ Cup Classic, Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile, San Diego Handicap, Triple Bend Stakes, Baoma, Bob Baffert, Flavien Prat, Journalism, Nyquist, breeding, pedigree, speed figure, Beyer, horse racing, ABR, trainer, jockey

Buy or Sell on Road to Breeders’ Cup: San Diego Handicap Winner Nysos

Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert said, provided all goes well in the coming weeks, Nysos will most likely make his next start in the $1 million FanDuel Pacific Classic Stakes Aug.

Fourstardave, Daryl’s Joy Stakes, Saratoga Race Course, Sultan of Saratoga, America's Best Racing, horse racing, ABR

Fourstardave’s Memory Lives on at Saratoga

Of all the horses that have made their mark at Saratoga over the course of the racetrack’s 150-plus years of horse racing, one horse became synonymous with the historic upstate New York venue more than any other.

Nysos, Del Mar, Bob Baffert, Flavien Prat, 2025 San Diego Handicap

Nysos Rolls at Del Mar, Lovesick Blues Upsets Bing Crosby Stakes

Bet down at 1-9 odds on a sunny afternoon at Del Mar, Nysos delivered a win for Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert in the Grade 2 $300,000 San Diego Handicap July 26.

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