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NYRA PRESS OFFICE —- Friday, August 8, 2025 Saratoga Race Course Notes Dual G1-winner La Cara works for G1 Alabama pres. by Keeneland Sales Pop Idol lands career-best 87 BSF for Galway coup; G1-winners Dorth Vader, Sacred Wish breeze at Saratoga Nations Pride, El Cordobes...

NYRA PRESS OFFICE —- Saratoga Race Course Notes Evershed makes stakes bow in G2 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Oaks Invitational May Day Ready points to G2 Lake Placid Ocean Club looks for another graded score in G2 Ballston Spa SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Mark Grier’s Evershed will...

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...