Tim Ice is out and Tim Ritchey in as the new trainer of Belmont Stakes winner Summer Bird. Ice was fired as trainer of the 3-year-old champion colt and 24 other horses owned by Drs. K.K. and Vilasini Jayaraman. The owners cited "lack of communication" as ...

Belmont Stakes winner Summer Bird underwent surgery to repair a broken bone in his right front leg and is expected to make a full recovery and race again in 2010, trainer Tim Ice said Saturday. The three-year-old colt was injured in late November while training for Sunday's Japan Dirt Cup. Summer Bird had no damage to his cartilage, Ice ...

Summer Bird made it a sweep of top races in New York. The chestnut colt fought off a determined Quality Road in a long battle down the stretch to win the $750,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup Saturday by a length on a sloppy racetrack ...