Boca Grande

Dan Shapiro
East Coast

Friday, April 20, 2007

No Oaks for Boca Grande (or any other NY Filly)

The road to the Kentucky Oaks doesn't lead through New York very often these days. I'm sorry to say that this year will be no different.

Monday, April 16, 2007

Boca Grande Wins Comely; Rags To Riches Works With Derby Hopeful

EAST/BOCA GRANDE BOUNCES BACK IN AQUEDUCT'S COMELY - Phipps Stable's Boca Grande overhauled pacesetting favorite Perfect Forest near the top of the stretch and pulled away to win Saturday's $150,000 Comely Stakes (GIII) at Aqueduct by 1 ½ lengths.

Friday, April 13, 2007

Boca Grande Looks To Bounce Back In Comely;Street Sounds Takes Beaumont;Hollendorfer Has Four In Bay Meadows BC Oaks

  EAST/BOCA GRANDE LOOKS TO REBOUND IN AQUEDUCT'S COMELY - Phipps Stable's Boca Grande will attempt to bounce back from disappointing run in her season debut when she faces eight rivals in Saturday's $150,000 Comely (GII) at Aqueduct.

Friday, February 23, 2007

Rags to Riches, Champion Dreaming of Anna Head Record Roster of 192 Fillies Nominated to 133rd Kentucky Oaks

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Feb. 23, 2007) – Derrick Smith and Michael Tabor’s Rags to Riches, winner of the Las Virgenes (Grade I) at Santa Anita in her stakes debut, and Frank Calabrese’s homebred Dreaming of Anna, winner of the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (GI) and the champion 2-year-old filly of 2006, head a record roster of 192 3-year-old fillies nominated to the 133rd running of the $500,000-added Kentucky Oaks (GI) at Churchill Downs.