NYRA Thanksgiving Racing Festival highlights Aqueduct fall meet

NYRA PRESS RELEASE —- Winter meet’s Cigar Mile Racing Festival includes four graded stakes worth $1.5 million NYSSS Great White Way and Fifth Avenue North America’s richest sire stakes OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) today...
Posted On 02 Oct 2019
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Three Grade 1 Races Highlight Saturday at Keeneland

By Amy Owens —- Three Grade 1 Races Highlight Saturday at Keeneland Six Grade 1 Winners in Overflow Field for Shadwell Turf Mile Gouverneur Morris Heads Field of 10 for Claiborne Breeders’ Futurity Rushing Fall, Vasilika Showdown Set in First Lady LEXINGTON, KY (Oct. 2,...
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Channel Maker targets second straight G1 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic

By Ryan Martin —- Channel Maker; Elsa Lorieul Photo ELMONT, N.Y. – Wachtel Stables, R. A. Hill Stables, Gary Barber and Reeves Thoroughbred Racing’s Channel Maker will attempt to repeat his 2018 victory when taking on a field of seven assembled for...
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Keeneland Barn Notes — Wednesday, Oct. 2

By Amy Owens —- Keeneland’s 17-day Fall Meet opens Friday and concludes Saturday, Oct. 26, with racing Wednesdays through Sundays. Post time for the first race each day is 1:05 p.m. ET. ********** • GRADE 1 WINNERS SPICED PERFECTION AND MIA MISCHIEF HEADLINE THOROUGHBRED...
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BOLO, CATAPULT & RIVER BOYNE HEAD WIDE-OPEN GRADE II, $200,000 CITY OF HOPE MILE (TURF) ON SATURDAY

By Mike Willman —- BOLO, CATAPULT & RIVER BOYNE HEAD WIDE-OPEN GRADE II, $200,000 CITY OF HOPE MILE (TURF) ON SATURDAY ARCADIA, Calif. (Oct. 2, 2019)—In what promises to be the best betting race of the weekend, trainer Carla Gaines’ Bolo, John Sadler’s Catapult and the...
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Talented juveniles look to earn Breeders’ Cup spot with win in Saturday’s G1 Champagne

By Brian Bohl —- ELMONT, N.Y. – A talented seven-horse field of juveniles will look to add their names to the impressive list of past winners of the Grade 1, $500,000 Champagne on Saturday at Belmont Park. One of five stakes on the packed 11-race Joe Hirsch Turf...
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