Handicapping: Memorial Day Graded Stakes at Santa Anita

Bob Hill Tracksideview Feature Columnist SANTA ANITA Race 7 – Shoemaker Mile – G! – 1 mile on turf for 3yos and up Smooth Like Straight (2) has lost by a neck twice and a nose once in his last three races in Grade 1 contests. He has been part of the exacta in eight of his last...
Posted On 30 May 2021
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Memorial Day Picks: Penn Mile G2, Regret G3, Matt Winn G3, Pennine Ridge G2

By Bob Hill, TSV staff writer —- There’s an almost limitless opportunity to play stakes races over the Memorial Day weekend, starting on Friday and ending on Monday. In this article, we offer up picks in four stakes races that will be run in the Eastern Time Zone early in...
Posted On 28 May 2021
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Gulfstream: Hall of Famer Prado Returns to Riding After Loss of Father

By David Joseph —- Hall of Famer Prado Returns to Riding After Loss of Father Three Wins Shy of 7,100 Twilight Program Kicks off Memorial Day Weekend Friday Rainbow 6, Super Hi-5 Carryovers for Friday HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Nearly a month since his last mount – and after...
Posted On 28 May 2021
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SAFFIE JOSEPH LOOKING FOR A FAST START AT MONMOUTH

By Tom Luicci —- SAFFIE JOSEPH LOOKING FOR A FAST START AT MONMOUTH WITH WINDS OF CHANGE IN SATURDAY’S $100K MR. PROSPECTOR OCEANPORT, N.J. – If things go as well as he hopes over the next few weeks it won’t take trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. long to make his presence felt...
Posted On 28 May 2021
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Santa Anita Stakes Previews

By Mike Willman —- UPSTART LAMBEAU HEADS SATURDAY’S GRADE II, $200,000 TRIPLE BEND STAKES AT SEVEN FURLONGS ARCADIA, Calif. (May 26, 2021)—Fresh off a rousing gate to wire allowance win at one mile, the John Shirreffs-trained Lambeau is well positioned to make his stakes...
Posted On 28 May 2021
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CASSE QUARTET PRIMED FOR TOP EFFORTS ON STEPHEN FOSTER PREVIEW DAY

By Darren Rogers —- LOUISVILLE, KY (Thursday, May 27, 2021) – Trainer Mark Casse’s stakes quartet of Helium, Palazzi, Spanish Loveaffair and Tap It to Win are poised to return to form on Saturday’s Stephen Foster Preview Day at Churchill Downs. “I think all four of our...
Posted On 28 May 2021
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Belmont Park Notes – 05/26

NYRA PRESS OFFICE —- Belmont Park Notes Rebel’s Romance works in company for G1 Belmont Stakes Rombauer to work Friday morning with John Velazquez up Multiple G1-winner Vequist to return to action late summer; Half-sister to Vequist nominated to Astoria Victim of Love to...
Posted On 27 May 2021
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Jersey Derby draws field of eight for Monmouth Park’s season opener on Friday

By Tom Luicci —- JERSEY DERBY DRAWS FIELD OF EIGHT PLUS ONE MTO FOR MONMOUTH PARK’S SEASON OPENER ON FRIDAY OCEANPORT, N.J. Sifting Sands, from the powerhouse Chad Brown stable, is among eight 3-year-olds (plus one main track only entrant) set to go in the $100,000...
Posted On 27 May 2021
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Churchill Downs Stakes Advances: O Besos Headlines Saturday’s Grade III Matt Winn

By Darren Rogers —- Matt Winn One of Seven Stakes on Saturday’s Stephen Foster Preview Day LOUISVILLE, KY (Wednesday, May 26, 2021) Bernard Racing, Tagg Team Racing, West Point Thoroughbreds and Terry Stephens’ Kentucky Derby (Grade I) fifth-place finisher O Besos...
Posted On 27 May 2021
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Rebel’s Romance among four Appleby runners on the work tab for the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival

By Keith McCalmont —- France Go de Ina settling in well for Mori at Belmont Park ELMONT, N.Y. – All four of trainer Charlie Appleby’s Godolphin-owned Belmont Stakes Racing Festival starters – Rebel’s Romance, Desert Peace, Summer Romance and Althiqa – breezed Saturday...
Posted On 24 May 2021
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