By

By Dna Smith —- Bob Baffert saddles Vale Dori in running of Grade 1 Clement L. Hirsch; Benoit Photo VALE DORI OUT TO BRING AN END TO BAFFERT’S DEARTH IN THE HIRSCH There are 44 different names of stakes Bob Baffert has won in compiling a Del Mar training record 121 over the...

By John Heims —- FIELD OF 7 GO FOR $1 MILLION PURSE SUNDAY With just hours until the 50th edition of the Grade 1 betfair.com Haskell Invitational, the seven competitors finished up their training earlier today to get ready for their run for the $1 million purse on Sunday. •...

By Brian Bohl —- SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Repole Stable’s Outplay went gate-to-wire to record his first stakes win, setting the pace and registering a 5 ¾-length victory in the ninth running of the $100,000 Curlin for 3-year-olds on Friday at Saratoga Race...

By Dan Smith —- BAFFERT ON CROSBY: ‘IT’S A WIN AND LAY DOWN FOR A WEEK’ Saturday’s Grade I $300,000 Bing Crosby Stakes is a “Win And You’re In” Breeders’ Cup Challenge series qualifier for the $1.5 million TwinSpires Breeders’ Cup Sprint here on November 4. Considering the...

By Rick Francis —- Race 8), 6 Furlongs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt H. VANDERBILT H.. Grade I. Purse $350,000 A HANDICAP FOR THREE YEAR OLDS AND UPWARD Post Time: ( 5:02)/ 4:02/ 3:02/ 2:02 Spartiatis (1), won and placed here a year ago, but after taking two straight over the inner...

TSV Selection —- Race 9), 6 Furlongs. Bing Crosby S. Grade I. Purse $300,000 FOR THREE-YEAR-OLDS AND UPWARD Post Time: 9:03/ 8:03/ 7:03/( 6:03) Denman’s Call (1), winner of the Grade 1 Triple Bend has seen his form head south in last two; tough spot to rebound....

By Bailey Gallison —- • The Pizza Man Ready For Third Million Run • Sonic Boom Targets Grade I Secretariat THE PIZZA MAN READY FOR THIRD MILLION RUN Midwest Thoroughbreds’ The Pizza Man is on track to contest his third Grade I Arlington Million on Aug. 12 at Arlington...

NYRA RELEASE —- • Tom’s d’Etat could be G1 Woodward-bound off impressive allowance win • Finley’sluckycharm likely to show off moves in G1 Ballerina • Red-hot Gargan eyeing G1 stakes for Phi Beta Express, Divine Miss Grey • Queen’s Plate heroine Holy...

Ron Correll Senior columnist Tracksideview —- The Jim Dandy on Saturday at Saratoga Springs in upstate New York and the Haskell Invitation on Sunday at Monmouth Park in Oceanside, N.J. start the second season for the 3-year-old crop. The fields include some of the colts who...

By John Heims —- $1 MILLION, GRADE 1 EVENT GOES AS RACE 12 OF 14 With just hours until the 50th renewal of the betfair.com Haskell Invitational, the seven contenders set to line up in the gate Sunday continue to get ready for their run in the mile and an eighth test for the...