Saratoga: Grade III Schuylerville, Lake George Headline Opening Day

By Rick Francis —- The girls headline 154th Saratoga opening day with the running of the Grade 3 Schuylerville for juvenile fillies, followed next race with the G3 Lake George for the 3-year-old ladies. It’ll be forty days of top shelf racing to come; let’s take a look at...
Posted On 20 Jul 2017
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Lady Eli returns to Spa to kick off G1 slate in Diana

By Brian Bohl —- SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Sheep Pond Partners’ Lady Eli will look to make a triumphant return to Saratoga Race Course as one of two entries for trainer Chad Brown in the 79th running of the Grade 1, $500,000 Diana for fillies and mares...
Posted On 20 Jul 2017
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Asmussen enters talented pair in G3 Sanford

By Najja Thompson —- SARATOGA SPRINGS. N.Y. – Eight juvenile colts each looking to pick up their first graded stakes win will battle in the 103rd running of the Grade 3, $150,000 Sanford on Saturday at Saratoga Race Course. Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen will...
Posted On 20 Jul 2017
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Del Mar Stable Notes July 19, 2017

By Dan Smith —- Arrogate; Zoe Metz/Clockers Corner FIVE STEP UP TO TAKE ON ARROGATE IN SATURDAY’S SAN DIEGO A field of six was entered Wednesday, topped by mighty Arrogate, for Saturday’s $300,000 TVG San Diego Handicap. And if all six break from the gate, it will be twice...
Posted On 20 Jul 2017
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G3 Lake George, Schuylerville anchor Opening Day card at Saratoga

NYRA STAKES ADVANCE —- SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Jimmy Toner will try for his third victory in Friday’s Grade 3, $150,000 Lake George for sophomore fillies at 1 1/16 miles on the Mellon turf with the Grade 3-placed Defiant Honor. The Lake George joins the...
Posted On 20 Jul 2017
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Del Mar Opening Day Stable Notes

By Dan Smith —- FRESH OFF SANTA ANITA WIN, MILLER’S IN A DEL MAR STATE OF MIND Peter Miller was a comfortable winner of the Santa Anita spring-summer meeting training title, notching 36 wins, 11 more than runners-up Phil D’Amato and Richard Baltas were able to muster. The...
Posted On 19 Jul 2017
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NTRA Top Thoroughbred Poll; Arrogate Remains in First Place, Receives all 38 first-place votes

By Joan Lawrence NTRA RELEASE —- Arrogate; Zoe Metz Photo ARROGATE REMAINS IN FIRST, NTRA TOP THOROUGHBRED POLL (Receives all 38 first-place votes) Saratoga Springs, N.Y. (Monday, July 17, 2017) – Week 25 of The National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) Top...
Posted On 17 Jul 2017
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Arlington International Racecourse Barn Notes: Sunday, July 16

By Bailey Gallison —- SHINN SETS A STRONG FOUNDATION IN SHORT TIME AT ARLINGTON Australian jockey Blake Shinn, based at Arlington International Racecourse for the past five weeks, rode his final North American winner on Saturday when the 29-year-old jockey piloted High Heel...
Posted On 16 Jul 2017
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BATTLE OF MIDWAY TO SHIP TO ATLANTIC COAST FOR JULY 30 HASKELL

By John Heims —- Nearly three decades since winning Monmouth Park’s biggest race, trainer Jerry Hollendorfer will look to do it again when he sends Battle of Midway to Oceanport, New Jersey for the July 30, betfair.com Haskell Invitational. Third in this year’s Kentucky...
Posted On 16 Jul 2017
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Belmont: Pure Silver puts in sterling effort to win Lynbrook

By Brian Bohl —- ELMONT, N.Y. – Twin Creeks Racing Stables’ Pure Silver handled a step up in class in the same victorious manner in which she made her debut, holding off I Still Miss You in the stretch to win the fourth running of the $100,000 Lynbrook for New...
Posted On 16 Jul 2017
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