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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Saratoga: Grade 1’s Sword Dancer, Allen Jerkens, Ballerina Stakes Previews

By Brian Bohl —- European winners give G1 Sword Dancer international flair SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Niarchos Family’s Irish-bred Erupt will be looking for his second Grade 1 win in as many starts as he headlines a diverse field of seven in the Grade 1, $1...
Posted On 23 Aug 2017
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Triple Crown winners face off in G1 Travers for first time in 35 years

By Heather Pettinger —- SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Attracting all three winners of the year’s Triple Crown races for the first time since 1982, and only the second time in the Mid-Summer Derby’s storied tradition, Kentucky Derby victor Always Dreaming,...
Posted On 23 Aug 2017
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Del Mar Stable Notes Aug 23, 2017

DMTC News – From the Wire —- ELEVEN ENTERED IN SATURDAY’S PAT O’BRIEN STAKES A field of eleven was entered Wednesday in Saturday’s Grade II $200,000 Pat O’Brien Stakes, the last of five Breeders’ Cup “Win and You’re In” Challenge Series events of the summer meeting....
Posted On 23 Aug 2017
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Ian Wilkes, Simon Bray & Dallas Stewart preview the Travers with Andy Serling on AT THE POST LIVE

By Marina Bui —- Presented by NYRA Bets Thursday, August 24 at the Parting Glass Pub from 8-9 p.m. ET What: Nationally televised NYRA horse racing personality and pundit, host Andy Serling returns to the ESPN airwaves and on location at the Parting Glass Pub for a sixth...
Posted On 23 Aug 2017
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Champions Songbird, Drefong among California contingent to arrive for Travers Day assignments

By Lynne Snierson —- SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The formidable contingent of California horses, which include dual champion and nine-time Grade 1 winner Songbird and 2016 champion Sprinter Drefong, rolled into the Saratoga Race Course backside late Tuesday afternoon...
Posted On 23 Aug 2017
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Saratoga Day 29: John’s Call Stakes

By Rick Francis —- Race 8), 1† Mile. (Turf) John’s Call S. Purse $100,000 FOR THREE YEAR OLDS AND UPWARD Post Time: ( 5:02)/ 4:02/ 3:02/ 2:02 St. Louie (1), Maker/Saez; after winning two back at Belmont, 5-year-old weakened at the top of the stretch to finish a well...
Posted On 22 Aug 2017
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