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NYRA PRESS OFFICE —- Saratoga Race Course Notes Sovereignty tunes up for G1 DraftKings Travers with half-mile breeze Magnitude works for G1 DraftKings Travers Strategic Focus adds blinkers for latest work, targets G1 DraftKings Travers next Good Cheer breezes for G1 Alabama...

By Pat McKenna —- G1 Sword Dancer to be renamed Christophe Clement Turf in 2026 SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) today announced the renaming of the Grade 1, $750,000 Sword Dancer to honor the life and legacy of Christophe Clement, the...

NYRA PRESS OFFICE —- Friday, August 8, 2025 Saratoga Race Course Notes Dual G1-winner La Cara works for G1 Alabama pres. by Keeneland Sales Pop Idol lands career-best 87 BSF for Galway coup; G1-winners Dorth Vader, Sacred Wish breeze at Saratoga Nations Pride, El Cordobes...

NYRA PRESS OFFICE —- Saratoga Race Course Notes Evershed makes stakes bow in G2 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Oaks Invitational May Day Ready points to G2 Lake Placid Ocean Club looks for another graded score in G2 Ballston Spa SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Mark Grier’s Evershed will...

By Tom Luicci —- TRAINER DIANE MORICI LOOKING FOR BIG EFFORT FROM SHRUG IN SUNDAY’S $100,000 OCEANPORT STAKES AT MONMOUTH PARK OCEANPORT, N.J. – Trainer Diane Morici’s 34-horse barn at Monmouth Park mostly consists of allowance horse, claimers and 2-year-olds. But when she...

Racing Updates Compiled by Robert Yates Thursday, August 7, 2025 After winning the country’s biggest race for 3-year-olds in 2024, Oaklawn stakes winner Mystik Dan eyes a major turf prize Saturday at Colonial Downs when he makes his grass debut in the prestigious G1-Arlington...

NYRA PRESS OFFICE —- Sunday, August 3, 2025 Saratoga Race Course Notes Sierra Leone’s G1 Whitney win a satisfying one for Chad Brown Riley Mott savoring first graded win with World Beater in G1 Saratoga Derby Inv. Deterministic stakes claim as divisional leader Ewing to...

By Mary Eddy —- NYRA PHOTO World Beater conquers international cast in G1 Saratoga Derby Invitational SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The aptly-named World Beater defeated a talented group of eight rivals that included three European contenders to provide conditioner Riley Mott...

By Keith McCalmont —- Kilwin rallies stoutly to win G1 Test presented by Ticketmaster SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – BBN Racing’s Kilwin rallied from well off the pace to overtake fellow closer Ragtime and capture Saturday’s 100th running of the Grade 1, $500,000 Test presented...

By Mary Eddy —- Ewing nets first stakes win in G2 Saratoga Special SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – D.J. Stable, West Point Thoroughbreds and Kenneth Freirich’s Ewing earned his first stakes score when overcoming a slow start in Saturday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Saratoga Special, a 6...