FAIR GROUNDS BACKSTRETCH UNDER QUARANTINE

By Brian Spencer —- NEW ORLEANS (January 2, 2017) – Two horses on the backstretch at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots spiked temperatures Monday morning. As a result of this development, the precautionary step has been taken to place the entirety of the Fair Grounds...
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Jockey Ashley Broussard Sweeps The Lookout And B-Connected Stakes

By Don Stevens —- JOCKEY ASHLEY BROUSSARD SWEEPS THE LOOKOUT AND B-CONNECTED STAKES IN BACK-TO-BACK YEARS AT DELTA DOWNS VINTON, LA. – For the second consecutive year jockey Ashley Broussard has won the Lookout and B-Connected Stakes at Delta Downs on the same weekend....
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Caledonian wins stakes debut in Lost in the Fog

By Brian Bohl —- OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Curragh Stables’ Caledonian overtook Always a Suspect in deep stretch to win his stakes debut by a neck in the $100,000 Lost in the Fog for newly turned 3-year-olds on Sunday in the first stakes race of the year at Aqueduct...
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17 FOR ’17: RACETRACKERS CREATE A NEW YEAR’S WISH LIST FOR SPORT

By Mike Henry —- OLDSMAR, FL. – For the majority of participants in Thoroughbred racing, their involvement transcends making a living. Many adopt a nomadic existence, moving from one track to the next and from state to state at least once or twice a year. Anyone who has...
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SANTA ANITA STABLE NOTES (SUNDAY JANUARY 1, 2017)

By Ed Golden —- • NEW YEAR OFF TO A WINNING START FOR NAKATANI • SHAH TURNS HIS HORSES OVER TO SHERMAN, O’NEILL • SHANE’S GIRLFRIEND TO RUN IN SANTA YNEZ STAKES NAKATANI RETURNS TO SANTA ANITA A WINNER Corey Nakatani is back. Now 46, the native of Covina has returned to...
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FAIR GROUNDS NOTES: THIRD HORSE TESTS POSITIVE FOR EQUINE HERPES AT FAIR GROUNDS

By Michael Adolphson, Brian Spencer —- NEW ORLEANS (January 1, 2017) – A third horse has tested positive for equine herpes at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots. The horse, trained by Mike Stidham, resides in Barn 36 and contracted EHV-1 non-neurogenic type, also call...
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Aqueduct: Takaful headlines field of seven for G3 Jerome

NYRA RELEASE —- OZONE PARK, N.Y. – A field of seven newly minted 3-year-olds will look to start 2017 off right on Monday’s special holiday card at Aqueduct Racetrack as New York’s road to the Kentucky Derby makes its first stop of the year in the Grade 3,...
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