Hardboot Has Passed His Test of Fire

BY JIM WELLS The barn thirty feet away is engulfed in flames. Black smoke billows from the inferno into your stalls and shed rows, making it difficult to breathe at times and nearly impossible to see at others. There are 500 horses on the grounds, many of them on the loose, fear driving them up […]

Hardboot Ships from California for Mystic Lake Derby

Trainer Michele Dollase has what she considers a pretty good California bred 3-year-old colt but nowhere to run him at home. That 3-year-old is Hardboot, winner of the $100,000 Silky Sullivan at Golden Gate Fields in April, and most recently second in the $200,000 Snow Chief Stakes, both restricted to state breds and both on […]