Oaklawn Barn Notes: Sporting Chance on Way to Keeneland Blue Grass Stakes

By Matthew Cox —- Sporting Chance; Coady Photo Sporting Chance on Way to Keeneland Blue Grass Stakes D. Wayne Lukas has called an audible with Sporting Chance and will send the Grade 1 winner to the $1 million Blue Grass Stakes (G2) April 7 at Keeneland, the Hall of Fame...
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KENTUCKY OAKS ‘STILL AN OPTION’ FOR CLASSY ACT; PATRONA MARGARITA COULD RUN IN GRADE I ASHLAND

By Ryan Martin —- Barn Notes: Wednesday March 28, 2018 • Kentucky Oaks ‘Still An Option’ For Classy Act; Patrona Margarita Could Run In Grade I Ashland • Jockey, Trainer, Owners Titles Going Right Down To The Wire KENTUCKY OAKS ‘STILL AN OPTION’ FOR CLASSY ACT; PATRONA...
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Unbeaten Hoonani Road even-money favorite for $100,000 Rainbow Stakes on Friday

By Matthew Cox —- Probable post time for the Rainbow, which goes as the eighth of nine races on Friday, is 4:42 p.m. (Central). Doors open at 11 a.m., with first post 1:30 p.m. Hoonani Road is bidding to give Hot Springs native Jerry Caroom his biggest victory as an owner....
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Keeneland Barn Notes — March 29

By Amy Owens —- THURSDAY, MARCH 29 Keeneland’s 16-day Spring Meet opens Friday, April 6, and runs through Friday, April 27, with racing Wednesdays through Sundays. Post time for the first race each day is 1:05 p.m. ET. ********** • FIELD OF 11 LIKELY FOR $1 MILLION TOYOTA...
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SANTA ANITA STABLE NOTES THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 2018

BY ED GOLDEN & MIKE WILLMAN —- • ‘PHENOMENAL’ BOLT D’ORO WORKS FOR SA DERBY SUNDAY • YOUNG ‘DISTAFFERS GOMEZ & CRAIGMYLE SHINE FOR CARMA • CELEBRATION OF LIFE SATURDAY FOR AGENT MARK NORTH BOLT D’ORO DOING ‘PHENOMENAL’ FOR SANTA ANITA DERBY Leading Triple Crown...
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FAIR GROUNDS: COX, SHARP BATTLE FOR FAIR GROUNDS TRAINING TITLE

By Ryan Martin —- Barn Notes: Wednesday March 28, 2018 • Cox, Sharp Battle For Fair Grounds Training Title Brad Cox; Coady Photography COX, SHARP BATTLE FOR FAIR GROUNDS TRAINING TITLE With only four racing days left for the Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots Winter...
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Claiming Championship back for fourth year Saturday at Aqueduct

NYRA Release —- OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The New York Racing Association’s Claiming Championship Series will offer 10 starter stakes races worth $695,000 when it returns for the fourth iteration on Saturday at Aqueduct Racetrack. Named after some of the most familiar...
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Oaklawn Barn Notes: Justify scheduled to make his stakes debut in Arkansas Derby

By Matthew Cox —- Justify scheduled to make his stakes debut in Arkansas Derby Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert has won 13 Kentucky Derby prep races at Oaklawn since 2010, but never with a horse making just his third career start. That could change with Justify scheduled to...
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THOROUGHBRED RACING RETURNS TO EVANGELINE DOWNS FOR 2018 SEASON

By Michael Chamberlain —- LOUISIANA LEGENDS NIGHT AND THE $100,000 EVANGELINE MILE HIGHLIGHT THE NEW MEET OPELOUSAS, LA – The 53rd season of Thoroughbred racing at Evangeline Downs will begin on Wednesday, April 4 with a nine-race program. It will be the first of 84 racing...
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LOUISIANA MILLIONAIRE MOBILE BAY HEADS FIELD OF EIGHT IN SATURDAY’S STAR GUITAR STAKES

By Ryan Martin —- NEW ORLEANS (March 28, 2018) – In the final stakes event of the Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots’ Winter Meet, Tigertail Ranch’s Mobile Bay will put a four-race win streak on the line in the $75,000 Star Guitar Stakes, a mile-and-a-sixteenth event on...
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