38 Del Mar Stakes Worth More Than $5.5 Million Set This Summer

DMTC News —- 38 Del Mar Stakes Worth More Than $5.5 Million Set This Summer; Shared Belief Stakes to Offer Kentucky Derby Points Del Mar will conduct its 81st summer racing season between July 10 and September 7 featuring a 38-race stakes schedule offering more than $5.5...
Posted On 31 May 2020
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JERSEY RACING GETS GREEN LIGHT FROM GOVERNOR; MONMOUTH PARK’S OPENING CARD SET FOR FRIDAY, JULY 3

Monmouth News Release —- Oceanport, N.J. – With New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy announcing earlier today that horse racing will return to the Garden State, Monmouth Park continues with its plans to kick-off its 75th season on Friday, July 3. “We’re incredibly thankful to...
Posted On 31 May 2020
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Grade 1-winner Sadler’s Joy headlines Thursday’s $80K Tiller

By Keith McCalmont —- ELMONT, N.Y. – Woodslane Farm’s Sadler’s Joy headlines Thursday’s $80,000 Tiller, a 1 3/8-mile turf test for older horses on the second day of live racing, without spectators, at the Belmont Park spring/summer meet. Trained by...
Posted On 31 May 2020
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CHANGE OF CONTROL SLIDES UP RAIL TO WIN THURSDAY FEATURE

By Darren Rogers —- Change of Control; Churchill Downs Photos LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Thursday, May 28, 2020) – Roddy Harrison’s Change of Control slid up the inside rail to collar eight-time stakes winner Morticia with a sixteenth of a mile to run and held off late runs by...
Posted On 29 May 2020
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KLEIN FAMILY CONTINUES LEGACY WITH MULTIPLE STAKES WINNER BREAK EVEN IN SATURDAY’S GRADE III, $100,000 WINNING COLORS

By Kevin Kerstein —- LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Thursday, May 28, 2020) – For more than three decades the Klein Family Racing Stable has been synonymous with success at Churchill Downs. On Saturday, the current patriarch of the family, Richard, hopes that his family’s homebred Break...
Posted On 29 May 2020
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Belmont Park Notes

By Keith McCalmont —- Rushing Fall and Fifty Five breeze on the turf for Opening Day G3 Beaugay; Newspaperofrecord set for return in G3 Intercontinental Clement sends stakes quintet to train on the Belmont turf Killybegs Captain continues march towards G1 Runhappy Carter...
Posted On 29 May 2020
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Del Mar Shifts Opening Day to July 10; Will Race on Friday – Sunday Summer Schedule

DMTC – News From the Wire —- The Del Mar Thoroughbred Club announced today its intention to begin the 2020 summer race meet on July 10 and employ a three-day-a-week race schedule pending the approval of the California Horse Racing Board at its June 11 meeting....
Posted On 29 May 2020
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MAXFIELD ENTERS TOP FIVE OF NTRA THREE-YEAR-OLD POLL

Alicia Hughes, NTRA Communications, —- MAXFIELD ENTERS TOP FIVE OF NTRA THREE-YEAR-OLD POLL; RAGING BULL CRASHES INTO TOP THOROUGHBRED POLL LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 26, 2020) – Godolphin homebred Maxfield came into his seasonal bow carrying the burdens of high anticipation and...
Posted On 28 May 2020
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KHRC Race Dates Committee Approves Keeneland Summer Meet

By Amy Gregory —- LEXINGTON, KY (May 27, 2020) – The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission Race Dates Committee today approved Keeneland’s request to conduct a spectator-free, five-day Summer Meet, to be held Wednesday, July 8 through Sunday, July 12. “Keeneland appreciates the...
Posted On 28 May 2020
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WELL-ACCOMPLISHED LAURA’S LIGHT HEADS SOLID FIELD OF NINE SOPHOMORE FILLIES IN SATURDAY’S GRADE III HONEYMOON

Santa Anita Release —- WELL-ACCOMPLISHED LAURA’S LIGHT HEADS SOLID FIELD OF NINE SOPHOMORE FILLIES IN SATURDAY’S GRADE III, $100,000 HONEYMOON STAKES AT 1 1/8 MILES ON TURF ARCADIA, Calif. (May 27, 2020)—In what appears to be an outstanding betting race, Gary Barber’s...
Posted On 28 May 2020
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