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By Mike Henry —- OLDSMAR, FL. – Top local sprinters of both sexes and the first day of the seventh annual Golfest demo days and expo event will highlight an action-packed Saturday at Tampa Bay Downs. An 11-race Thoroughbred card features the $100,000 Pelican Stakes for...

By Jennifer Hoyt —- Blue Tone Brings Hess Back to Oaklawn for Second Time Quiet Kim, the first horse trainer Bob Hess Jr. started at Oaklawn, was the favorite for the $250,000 Fantasy Stakes (G2) for 3-year-old fillies in 2006. The odds of the trainer’s second...

By Michael Adolphson —- • O’Neill Invades for More New Orleans Glory • Don’t Split Tens Impressive for Pessin • Salty Sophomore Maidens Highlight Saturday Card • Stidham Impressed by Haniel • Guest Suite Sizzles to Top Work Tab Wrap-Up Trainer Doug O’Neill; Skip...

By Mike Henry —- OLDSMAR, FL. – Jesus Castanon had a good feeling about 3-year-old filly Tapa Tapa Tapa before Saturday’s 37th renewal of the $100,000 Suncoast Stakes. She had breezed five furlongs eight days earlier in 1:01 2/5, and Castanon knew she would be tough to beat...

By Mike Willman —- MOKAT, PRIZE EXHIBIT, HILLHOUSE HIGH & WILD AT HEART ALL PROMINENT IN WIDE OPEN GRADE II, $200,000 BUENA VISTA STAKES ON SATURDAY; FIELD OF 11 OLDER DISTAFFERS TO CONTEST FLAT MILE ON TURF ARCADIA, Calif. (Feb. 15, 2017)—A wide open field of 11 older...

By Michael T. Chamberlain —- STALL APPLICATIONS FOR 2017 MEET ARE DUE FEBRUARY 24 OPELOUSAS, LA – Evangeline Downs’ 2017 Thoroughbred racing season will begin on Wednesday, April 12 and continue through Saturday, September 2. There will be 84 days of live racing run on a...