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By Mike Willman —- MILLER HOLDS STRONG HAND AS CALCULATOR & STORMY LIBERAL LOOM LARGE IN SATURDAY’S GRADE III, $150,000 DAYTONA STAKES AT 6 ½ FURLONGS DOWN SANTA ANITA’S HILLSIDE TURF Benoit Photo CLASSY WHAT A VIEW ON COMEBACK TRAIL FOR TRAINER KENNY BLACK ARCADIA,...

By Mike Henry —- OLDSMAR, FL. – Tampa Bay Downs will offer $1-million in stakes purses on a single afternoon for the first time in history when the track presents five stakes, including three graded events, on its March 10 Festival Day program. Nominations close Saturday...

Joan Lawrence/NTRA —- GOOD MAGIC REMAINS IN FIRST PLACE ON THE NTRA TOP 3-YEAR-OLD POLL; WEST COAST RETAINS FIRST-PLACE FOR OLDER HORSES IN TOP THOROUGHBRED POLL Saratoga Springs, N.Y. (Tuesday, February 20, 2018) –Week four of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association...

By Jennifer Hoyt —- HOT SPRINGS, AR (Monday, Feb. 19, 2018) – Don’t Tell My Wife Stables and Monomoy Stables LLC’s My Boy Jack came up a narrow opening on the rail and drew off to win Monday’s $500,000 Southwest Stakes (G3) by 4 ½ lengths over Combatant before a Presidents’...

By Jennifer Hoyt —- HOT SPRINGS, AR (Monday, Feb. 19, 2018) – Veteran runner Hawaakom benefitted from a rail skimming ride by jockey Corey Lanerie to earn his first graded stakes victory in Monday’s $500,000 Razorback Handicap (G3). It was also the first graded stakes win...

Ron Correll Senior columnist Tracksideview —- The Risen Star at Fairgrounds, the El Camino Real and the Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn Park are now in the books. So what did we learn from the races? Let’s start with the negatives first. The Risen Star (50 points to the winner)...

By Ed Golden —- Bolt d’Oro; Zoe Metz/Clockers Corner • ESPINOZA TO WORK BOLT D’ORO ON TUESDAY • EASY MAIDEN WINNER JUSTIFY GETS 104 BEYER • ROMAN, PRAT DEADLOCKED IN JOCKEYS’ RACE BOLT D’ORO TO BREEZE FOR SAN FELIPE UNDER ESPINOZA Bolt d’Oro, a leading contender for...

By Jennifer Hoyt —- Sporting Chance Ready for 3-Year-Old Debut in Southwest Grade 1 winner Sporting Chance will have a slightly different look when he makes his 3-year-old debut in the $500,000 Southwest Stakes (G3) for 3-year-olds Monday at Oaklawn. Sporting Chance has...

By Mike Henry —- OLDSMAR, FL. – Trainer Keith Nations was looking for answers from Justaholic in today’s second race at Tampa Bay Downs, a $27,500 conditional allowance/optional claiming event for 3-year-olds racing 7 furlongs. The Kentucky-bred son of Justin...

By Jennifer Hoyt —- HOT SPRINGS, AR (Sunday, Feb. 18, 2018) – Calumet Farm’s Sonneteer attempts to win consecutive races for the first time in his career in the $500,000 Razorback Handicap (G3) for older horses Monday at Oaklawn. Probable post time for the 1 1/16-mile...