This weekend's racing sets the tone for the quality competition that is expected to be the coast-to-coast norm for the better part of the next month.
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Brazen Persuasion and Bahnah hit the wire together after a battle through the final yards for a dead heat for victory in the 95th running of the $150,000, Grade III Schuylerville for 2-year-old fillies, one of two opening-day stakes for the 150th
For the past seven years until January, Michael Dilger had worked as an assistant to Todd Pletcher, the all-time leading trainer at Saratoga Race Course.
Next to last on the turn, Ken and Sarah Ramsey’s 3-2 favorite Kitten’s Dumplings launched her usual late rally to outkick Watsdachances in deep stretch and win the 18th running of the $200,000, Grade II Lake George for 3-year-old fillies on the turf at Saratoga Race Course on Wednesday.
After selling out its nearly 300-seat Mansion at prices of $7,000 and up for the 2013 Kentucky Oaks and Derby, Churchill Downs Inc. is planning another new seating area — the Churchill Downs Rooftop Garden.
In what his connections called his best performance to date, favored Palace Malice pounced on pacesetter Moreno at the top of the stretch and the Belmont Stakes winner went on to score a convincing one-length victory over Will Take Charge in the $600,000,
The months between the April and October meets at Keeneland Race Course might seem to drag for racing fans, but just because there are no races doesn't mean Keeneland stops, too.
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Trying to become only the second horse to win the $750,000, Grade I Whitney Handicap in back-to-back years, Fort Larned breezed five-eighths of a mile in 1:00.71 Monday morning at Saratoga. It was the fastest of 31 works at the distance.
Churchill Downs on Tuesday said its new grandstand seating near the Kentucky Derby starting gate will add 2,400 seats as part of a $14.5 million project to improve food, beverage and bathroom accommodations in a corner of the track closest to Central Avenue.
Louisville-based Churchill Downs Inc. announced Tuesday that the company's Kentucky Derby week profit — before taxes and other factors — increased by $5.8 million over the previous year.
Fan favorite Mr. Hot Stuff earned his first career Grade I stakes victory Thursday at Saratoga Race Course, taking the lead over the eighth fence and going on to a mild upset in the $100,000 A.P. Smithwick Memorial Steeplechase.
On the anniversary of the day that racing began 150 years ago in this city, a proverb nicely describes the 86th running of the Whitney Invitational Handicap on Saturday: 'He who hesitates is lost.'
When Robert Courtney Jr. bought then-4-year-old Rahystrada for $10,000 from his farm's longtime client Jaime Carrion, he suspected the gelding would only get better with age.
While there is always a risk that giving a mature mare extended time off would permanently take her mind out of the racing game, the four bullet workouts Groupie Doll has posted since returning in late June have indicated she is ready and willing...
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In attracting champion female sprinter Groupie Doll, Ellis Park's $100,000 Gardenia Stakes boasted perhaps the most accomplished horse ever to run at Ellis Park. It also proved one of the biggest upsets at the Western Kentucky track.
Reigning Horse of the Year Wise Dan won the $500,000 Fourstardave Handicap on Saturday at Saratoga Race Course, taking control at mid-stretch and beating King Kreesa by 1¾ lengths.
Corfu held off Wired Bryan to take the $200,000, Grade II Saratoga Special by a nose, giving trainer Todd Pletcher a victory over his former assistant, Michael Dilger, and Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez his fifth winner on Sunday's card at Saratoga Ra
The Thoroughbred foal crop will continue a decline in numbers next year, and the two most recent foal crops were even smaller than predicted, The Jockey Club announced Tuesday.
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This weekend's racing sets the tone for the quality competition that is expected to be the coast-to-coast norm for the better part of the next month.
Verrazano has already experienced his share of extremes in a racing career that began on Jan. 1 of this year.
Three-time Kentucky Derby winning jockey Calvin Borel prevailed on Hey Boo in Ellis Park's camel race on Saturday.
The months between the April and October meets at Keeneland Race Course might seem to drag for racing fans, but just because there are no races doesn't mean Keeneland stops, too.
While there is always a risk that giving a mature mare extended time off would permanently take her mind out of the racing game, the four bullet workouts Groupie Doll has posted since returning in late June have indicated she is ready and willing...
