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Article via ESPN, Marcus Hersh, Daily Racing Form The road to the Dubai World Cup card March 26 takes its final turn this week, with the last two major racecards at Meydan on Thursday and Saturday before the World Cup program itself. The Saturday feature, Round 3 of the Al...

Article via Horse Racing Nation Donegal Racing’s Keen Ice holds a unique and rather newsworthy distinction over his seven rivals in Saturday’s $500,000 Donn Handicap (G1) at Gulfstream Park.   The Dale Romans-trained 4-year-old’s claim to fame heading into the first major race for older horses in the calendar year is his...

Article via Lady and the Track, Reinier Macatangay Keen Ice Seeks Respect in Donn at Gulfstream Park: Void of lofty expectations, Donegal Racing’s Keen Ice kicked off 2015 by running fifth in the Holy Bull Stakes (GII) at Gulfstream Park, after coming in third in the Remsen (GII) at Aqueduct and...

Article via Daily Racing Form, Mike Welsch HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Anyone looking for an emerging star in the wide-open handicap division need only turn to Saturday’s Grade 1 Donn Handicap at Gulfstream Park to find a number of worthy candidates hoping to enhance their reputations in the season’s first...

Article from Lady and the Track, Jessica Smith. Crawford of Donegal: “Keen Ice Will Win the Classic”– Quite lost within the Breeders’ Cup Classic (GI) clamor of American Pharoah versus Beholder is discussion of Keen Ice, but Jerry Crawford, President of collective owner Donegal Racing, is boldly trumpeting the colt’s...

Article from The Courier-Journal, Jennie Rees. Photo from Adam Coglianese/NYRA The glow of the Travers victory has not waned in the nearly six weeks since Donegal Racing’s Keen Ice upset Triple Crown winner American Pharoah at Saratoga. Donegal founder Jerry Crawford, at Churchill Downs to watch Keen Ice work Saturday,...

Article via Americas Best Racing Honaker with his wife, Sarah, at Saratoga prior to Keen Ice's Travers win. (Photos courtesy of Eliot Honaker) A few years ago, Eliot Honaker started contemplating what it would be like to have racehorses but he could’ve never imagined that his first venture into ownership...

Article via Thoroughbred Daily News, Andrew Caulfield Excuse me for dipping into my own back catalogue again, but something I wrote in early-February for Thoroughbred Owner & Breeder has some relevance to the thrilling events in the GI Travers S.: “It has long been said that England and America are...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Triple Crown winner American Pharoah came up short in the $1.6 million Travers Stakes on Saturday, losing to Keen Ice by three-quarters of a length before a sold-out and stunned crowd at Saratoga Race Course. American Pharoah came into the race as the overwhelming favorite, but...

Article via New York Times, Joe Drape.  ARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — They were fully aware of this historic racetrack’s reputation for felling iconic horses like Gallant Fox and Affirmed, as well as immortal ones, like the great Secretariat. They also knew of its charms, how racehorses are not only loved...