Down the Stretch for January 6, 2025

Familiar faces from Woodbine were winning in the U.S. - Kazushi Kimura rode a Tall Oaks Farm-bred filly to a huge upset in a Stakes race at huge odds at Santa Anita. We’ve got wins at Aqueduct from Sofia Vives and Sahin Civaci. Marty Drexler and Bruno Schickedanz scored at Gulfstream. We don’t know the creeps who let War Envoy, a Breeders’ Cup horse end up starving, emaciated and knee high in mud, but we do have Olivia Dixon of the Kentucky Humane Society to tell us how the horse was rescued. Katie Larsen runs Southern Belle Thoroughbreds. In 2024, she found homes for 200 retired thoroughbreds, but suffered a terrible accident that has her on crutches. We go to Mohawk Park for the last race of 2024 and the first of this year, and we have another one of those amazing nights at the track from James MacDonald. Bern Tobin tells us about the incredible Get Around Town, now retired after racing 459 times and how did we manage to get the Beach Boys in this one?