Game on Dude & Paynter at Santa Anita Park - Feb. 16 & 18, 2013 [01:14]
Multiple grade 1 winner Game On Dude and exercise rider Dana Barnes stop at the clockers' booth before morning training on Feb. 16, 2013 at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California, USA Two days later, on Feb. 18, grade 1 winner Paynter walks to the track with exercise rider George Alvarez aboard, as he works toward his racing comeback.
France looking for quick Six Nations comeback against Wales [01:52]
France lock Thierry Dusautoir says the Six Nations tournament starts this weekend after a loss to Wales meaning Les Bleus probably have to win the next four matches to have a chance of becoming champions. France Coach Patrice Lagisquet says his team needs to maintain their intensity for 80 minutes if they are to beat Wales
1995 Blue Grass Stakes [12:23]
While the power horses of East and West stalked and chased, and while a medical miracle named Randy Romero hunched down in the saddle, a 30-1 long shot named Wild Syn led every step of the way today to win the Blue Grass Stakes by 2 1/2 lengths over Suave Prospect. And, while doing so, he royally scrambled the traffic on the road to the Kentucky Derby. No horse in the race was given less chance to win, yet no horse in the race ever got in front of him. He simply set a tantalizing pace that no jockey challenged, and at the end of a mile and one-eighth he still had the lead over some of the ranking candidates for the Derby: Suave Prospect, who held off the late run by Tejano Run by the length of his head, and then Thunder Gulch two lengths farther back. No match race developed between Thunder Gulch and Suave Prospect, as expected. No winning drive to the wire in the homestretch by Tejano Run, as expected. No clarifying of the Derby picture, as expected. And with the Canadian champion Talkin Man blitzing the field in the Wood Memorial at Aqueduct in New York -- three weeks after he won the Gotham -- the Derby sweepstakes underwent a mighty one-day shakeout. Instead, at the picturesque Keeneland track in the heart of the horse country, it was all Wild Syn. He was running in only his second stakes race, guided by a jockey who retired last year after a career filled with injuries and at least three comebacks and saddled by a 26-year-old trainer, Thomas Arnemann. Not only that ...
Ride with comeback jockey Chris Symons [02:04]
Come on board for a ride with popular jockey Chris Symons as he rides trackwork in preparation for his return to racing. He also dons the helmet cam as we ride with him in a jumpout
Gary Stevens Comeback [00:54]
Stevens, riding for the first time since November 2005, finished third aboard Jebrica Jan. 6 in a $50000 claiming race on the turf at Santa Anita Park.