ESPN (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Colonel John won five stakes races during his career, including the Grade 1 Travers Stakes and Santa Anita Derby and the Grade 3 Sham Stakes in 2008. He also was runner-up in the 2007 CashCall Futurity and 2009 Goodwood Stakes, both Grade 1, and finished third in the Grade 2 Swaps Stakes last year. His stakes wins came on dirt, turf, and synthetic surfaces....
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... she don't intimidate us too much, as big as she is," joked Tim Ice, trainer of Belmont and Travers stakes winner Summer Bird, who drew the No. 3 post just inside the 5-2 morning line favorite. Trainer Bob Baffert's Pacific Classic winner Richard's Kid will be a few stalls outside of the mighty mare, but the white-haired Hall-of-Famer has got the same feeling. "I hate to...
ESPN (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Picking an individual horse out of a string here would be like plucking a single grain of sand from the beach. In the States, you can dine on an elegant trackside breakfast at Saratoga while morning tour guide Mary Ryan giddily points out each Travers Stakes nominee as he stretches his legs or turns in a timed workout. But in Europe, no trainer times his horses' workouts. A top-level...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... she don't intimidate us too much, as big as she is," joked Tim Ice, trainer of Belmont and Travers stakes winner Summer Bird, who drew the No. 3 post just inside the 5-2 morning line favorite. Trainer Bob Baffert's Pacific Classic winner Richard's Kid will be a few stalls outside of the mighty mare, but the white-haired Hall-of-Famer has got the same feeling."I hate to run against...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
... Summer Bird went to the track Sunday between races two and three. The winner of the Belmont and Travers Stakes had regular jockey Kent Desormeaux in the saddle for the five-furlong workout,Trained by Tim Rice, Summer Bird covered the five-furlongs in 1:00.45. Summer Bird galloped out six-furlongs in 1:13.03."The work was great," Ice said about the work. "This was exactly what we wanted....
ESPN (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Saturday's workout was Summer Bird's first since a one-length win in the Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park on Oct. 3, the colt's third major stakes win of the year. Earlier this year, Summer Bird won the Belmont Stakes and the Travers Stakes at Saratoga to emerge as a leader in the 3-year-old division.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
... Zenyatta's trainer John Shirreffs said concerning a decision.Remaining in third is Belmont and Travers Stakes champion Summer Bird. The three-year-old colt also got one first-place vote with 176 points.Arlington Million champ Gio Ponti remains in fourth with the versatile horse Einstein holding on to the fifth spot. Taking over the sixth position is the sprinter Zensational followed...
