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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...

NYRA COMMUNICATIONS —- NYRA Communications Photo Deterministic extends win streak to three in G1 FanDuel Fourstardave St. Elias Stable, Ken Langone, Steven Duncker and Vicarage Stable’s Deterministic pressed longshot pacesetter My Boy Prince into the stretch before...

By Tom Luicci —- HEY NAY NAY STAYS ON TRACK FOR BREEDERS’ CUP WITH 7-LENGTH ROMP IN SATURDAY’S TYRO STAKES OCEANPORT, N.J. – Trainer John Sadler has had so few hiccups along the way with Hey Nay Nay after two career starts that he’s already targeting the Breeders’ Cup for...

NYRA PRESS OFFICE —- NYRA PRESS OFFICE PHOTO Peter Brant, Mrs. John Magnier, Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith, Westerberg and Brook Smith’s Sierra Leone, the Champion 3-Year-Old Colt of 2024 that had gone winless in three previous tries at Saratoga Race Course, broke through in...

By Rick Francis —- A field of ten head to the starting gate at beautiful Saratoga Race Course for the 97th renewal of the Grade 1 Whitney Stakes. Contested at the “handicap” distance of 1&1/8th mile, this group features eight millionaires amongst the ten...