Horse Of The Month

International Horse Racing Digest’s Horse of the Month for August, is Summer Bird, who followed up a second place finish in the Haskell Invitational on August 2nd, with a 'splashing' open length victory in the (pictured) $1 Million Shadwell Travers at Saratoga on August 29th. A winner of two of the most prestigious races for three-year olds this year, ( the Belmont in June and now the Travers), Summer Bird, a son of Birdstone, now has lifetime earnings of over $1.5 million.

Congratulations to the connections of Summer Bird on being named August's Horse of the Month.

Photograph by NYRA, Adam Coglianese

International Horse Racing Digest’s Horse of the Month is Rahy’s Attorney, recent victor of the Grade II Nijinsky Stakes at Woodbine on July 26th. The victor’s share of the $300,000 purse increased the five-year-old Crown Attorney gelding’s lifetime earnings to just over $1.5 million and the victory was Rahy’s Attorney’s 9th in just 22 lifetime starts.

Congratulations to the connections of Rahy’s Attorney on being named July’s Horse of the Month.

Photograph by Michael Burns Photography

Photography By: Michael Burns Photography

International Horse Racing Digest's Horse of the Month is Milwaukee Appeal.
With a victory in the $500,000 Woodbine Oaks on June 7th, and a close 3rd place finish two weeks later against the boys in the Queen's Plate, Milwaukee Appeal was the unanimous choice for June's Horse of the Month.

Photography by Michael Marten

INTERNATIONAL HORSE RACING DIGEST’S HORSE OF THE MONTH

RACHEL ALEXANDRA

With her dominating victory in the Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs on May 1st, and a gutsy win in the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course two weeks later, the three-year-old filly was at the top of the class in May, and was acclaimed our first ever, ‘Horse of the Month’.

The reigning ‘Queen’ of Thoroughbred Racing is featured here in a photomontage, in what we like to call ‘Ladies Day at the Preakness’.