Saratoga Stakes Picks – Grade 1’s Forego and Sword Dancer

Bob Hill, TSV Staff Writer Race 9) 7 furlongs, Forego G1, $600,000 for three-year-olds and up Post Time: ( 4:12)/ 3:12/ 2:12/ 1:12) Sleepwalkin’ Dude (1), Jacobson/Bravo; millionaire winner now seven years old; small piece is likely topside finish for him. Ross (2),...
Posted On 25 Aug 2017
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Del Mar Stable Notes: Danzing Candy Suffers Injury, To Be Retired

DMTC NEWS —- Danzing Candy, the 8-5 morning line favorite for Saturday’s Grade II $200,000 Pat O’Brien Stakes, suffered a career-ending fracture to an ankle Friday morning during a routine gallop on the eve of the race. “Just took a bad step,” owner Ted Aroney, said by...
Posted On 25 Aug 2017
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Saratoga: Travers Day Full-Card Selections

By Matt Pappis, TSV Staff Writer —- Race 1: 8-6-2-5 Race 2: 1-3-8 Race 3: 9-10-8-5 Race 4: 8-4-3 Race 5: 10-7-8 Race 6) Grade I Personal Ensign Songbird (2): Her numbers don’t stack up to what she ran last year but she is the champ and they have to beat her. Forever...
Posted On 25 Aug 2017
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Arlington Barn Notes: Friday, August 25, 2017

By Bailey Gallison —- Postulation Proves a Winner for Runnymede Racing  What’s Up Dude Targets Next Synthetic Start  Arlington Adds Overnight Stakes to Schedule POSTULATION PROVES A WINNER FOR RUNNYMEDE RACING Three years after capturing the 2014 Grade I Arlington Million...
Posted On 25 Aug 2017
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Saratoga Day 31: Albany Stakes

By Rick Francis —- Race 10), 1„ Mile. Albany S. Puquezrse $250,000 FOR THREE YEAR OLDS NEW YORK STATE-BRED Post Time: ( 6:23)/ 5:23/ 4:23/ 3:23 ADVANCED FORECAST: Becoming Sunny, High 74 Low 49 Dynamic Prime (1), Weaver/Maragh; worked a bullet here on the 17th, however...
Posted On 24 Aug 2017
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Stable Notes Aug 24, 2017

DMTC NEWS- DAN SMITH —- STEVENS’ CHOICE: GIANT EXPECTATIONS OVER KOBE’S BACK Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens has been on the back of Kobe’s Back for 14 of the last 15 in 24 lifetime starts for the 6-year-old, Kentucky-bred son of Flatter. All but one since Kobe’s Back came...
Posted On 24 Aug 2017
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Saratoga Race Course Notes August 24th 2017

NYRA RELEASE —- Songbird ‘bigger and stronger’ for G1 Personal Ensign ‘All systems go’ for Pletcher’s Travers Day contingent G1 Travers contender West Coast progresses for Baffert Summers cranks up the tunes for Mind Your Biscuits Lynch gets...
Posted On 24 Aug 2017
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Monmouth park Barn Notes for Thursday, August 24, 2017

By John Heims —- CONQUEST BIG E LOOKS TO ADD TO HIS WIN STREAK IN ISELIN Conquest Big E will try to make it three straight wins and his first graded stakes victory when he faces four others in Saturday’s Grade 3, $100,000 Phillip H. Iselin Stakes, going a mile and an...
Posted On 24 Aug 2017
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Songbird headlines Grade 1 Personal Ensign; Lady Eli to make final Saratoga start in G2 Ballston Spa

By Lynne Snierson —- SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – With the imposing presence of dual champion and nine-time Grade 1 winner Songbird entered in Saturday’s Grade 1, $700,000 Personal Ensign, a compact yet talented field of five fillies and mares is set to contest the...
Posted On 23 Aug 2017
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Saratoga Day 30: Riskaverse Stakes; Full-Card, Early & Late Pick-4 Selections

By Bob Hill, TSV Staff Writer —- Thursday, August 24 Race 2: 5-1-3-7 Race 3: 8-6-5-10 Race 4: 7-1,1a-4-2,2b Race 5: 5-12-7-10 Race 6: 5-6-10-7 Race 7: 6-8-10-11 Race 8: 1-8-7-6- Race 9: Riskaverse Stakes 12-11-8-4 Race 10: 8-3-5-4 Early Pick 4 (Races 3-6) 2,5,6,8,10 w/...
Posted On 23 Aug 2017
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