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By John Heims —- TRAINER DEREK RYAN HOPING VITAL GETS ANOTHER GRASS CHANCE IN SATURDAY’S $60,000 TALE OF THE CAT STAKES AT MONMOUTH OCEANPORT, N.J. – With a barn full of turf runners and little cooperation from Mother Nature since the Monmouth Park meeting started nearly...

NYRA Release —- *** For 2018 Belmont Stakes Racing Festival workout videos and interviews, please visit NYRA’s YouTube channel at https://bit.ly/2L4Y8lI *** • Justify gets walk day on quiet morning at Churchill for Belmont horses • G2 Woody Stephens-bound Strike Power...

By Mike Willman —- Unique Bella; Benoit Photo ARCADIA, Calif. (May 30, 2018)—With 13 group or graded stakes victories among them, Unique Bella, Vale Dori and Paradise Woods need little in the way of introduction as they headline Saturday’s Grade I, $400,000 Beholder Mile at...

By Darren Rogers —- Justify; Coady Photography LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Tuesday, May 29, 2018) – Undefeated Kentucky Derby (Grade I) and Preakness Stakes (GI) winner Justify tuned up his preparation for the June 9 Belmont Stakes (GI) with a rapid half-mile breeze in :46.80 Tuesday...

NYRA Release —- *** For 2018 Belmont Stakes Racing Festival workout videos and interviews, please visit NYRA’s YouTube channel at https://bit.ly/2L4Y8lI • Baffert at Churchill Downs to see undefeated Triple Crown hopeful Justify breeze a half mile in 46 4/5 seconds...

By Darren Rogers —- SPRINT ONE OF TWO STAKES ON SATURDAY’S ‘DOWNS AFTER DARK’ CARD LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Chris Wilkins’ multiple stakes winner Wilbo heads a competitive field of seven older sprinters that were entered in Saturday night’s 30th running of the $100,000 Aristides...

Golden Gate Release —- THE LIEUTENANT, HALF BROTHER TO JUSTIFY, WINS THE ALL AMERICAN Berkeley, Calif. (May 28, 2018) – Under the guidance of Southern California jockey Tyler Connor, 5-year-old The Lieutenant stalked the pace before surging in the final sixteenth of a...

By John Heims —- MAY START NEXT IN $75,000 REGRET STAKES ON JUNE 17 OCEANPORT, N.J. – Day by Day, looking and acting every bit the part of a 1-2 shot, blazed to a 3-1/4-length victory in Sunday’s $42,000 featured allowance race at Monmouth Park in a performance that likely...

By Mike Willman —- Hunt; Zoe Metz Photo COMEBACKING HUNT UP TO BEAT FAVORED HEART TO HEART BY A NECK IN GRADE I, $400,000 SHOEMAKER MILE; PRAT & D’AMATO TEAM FOR TURF WIN IN 1:34.07 SHOE MILE IS A BREEDERS’ CUP ‘WIN & YOU’RE IN’ CHALLENGE RACE ARCADIA, Calif. (May...

NYRA Release —- *** For 2018 Belmont Stakes Racing Festival workout videos and interviews, please visit NYRA’s YouTube channel at https://bit.ly/2L4Y8lI *** • Triple Crown hopeful Justify could have ‘a little breeze’ Tuesday • Bolt d’Oro puts in...