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By Najja Thompson —- Fire Key looks to unlock victory in Smart N Fancy SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Backwards Stable’s Fire Key will look to capture her second stakes win of the year in New York, headlining a field of nine in the $100,000 Smart N Fancy going 5 ½...

By Don Stevens —- 84-DAY MEETING GETS UNDERWAY TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8 – VINTON, LA. – Delta Downs Racetrack Casino & Hotel today announced its 2019-20 Thoroughbred stakes schedule. The track will offer 26 stakes races during an 84-day season that runs from October 8,...

By Tom Luicci —- OCEANPORT, N.J. – Rather than trying to re-invent the wheel with his training regimen in an effort to get Jaywalk back on track this year, John Servis simply went back to what worked during the filly’s 2018 championship season. The early results are...

By Brian Bohl —- SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Leonard Green, Aron Yagoda and Empire Racing Club’s Proven Strategies will look to capitalize on a distance cutback in his stakes debut in the fifth running of Friday’s $100,000 Skidmore for juveniles going 5 ½...

Alicia Hughes/NTRA —- LEXINGTON, Ky. (August 12, 2019) – No rival has been able to topple Bricks and Mortar on the race track this season and after his latest triumph in the Grade 1 Arlington Million XXXVII on August 10, the son of Giant’s Causeway remains equally dominant...

By Rick Francis —- Race 10) Grade 1 Secretariat Stakes 3yo 1 Mile Turf Post Time 5:28 CDT 6) Fog of War (Brown/Ortiz, I.); hard duel last out in Manila Stakes at Belmont coming short by a half-length. A repeat of War Front colt’s mile times, including G1 Summer Stakes...

By Rick Francis —- Arlington Park Race 9) Grade 1 Beverly D Stakes 1&3/16ths Miles Turf F&M Post Time 4:53 CDT 7) Sistercharlie (Brown/Velazquez); Irish-bred mare out of Myboycharlie enters having won 4-straight Grade 1’s, including this contest a year ago...

By Rick Francis —- BROWN DUO FORMIDABLE IN 37TH RUNNING Race 11) Grade 1 Arlington Million 1&1/4 Miles Turf POST TIME 6:12 CDT Chilean-bred Robert Bruce (1) looks to become only the second 2-time winner of the Grade 1 Arlington Million when he squares off against nine...

NYRA PRESS RELEASE —- Ostilio in fine fettle for G1 Fourstardave McLaughlin likely to point A Thread of Blue to $1 million Jockey Club Derby Glory Road possible for G1 Runhappy Hopeful By Your Side on target for G1 Hopeful on Closing Day Serengeti Empress Cotillion-bound...

DMTC —- CEDILLO IS PROVING QUITE ABLE IN FIRST FULL DEL MAR SEASON The motivation for Abel Cedillo to leave a good business and comfortable situation based at Golden Gate Fields in San Francisco, and venture full-time to Del Mar this summer, is common to most jockeys. “My...