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By Mike Willman —- CLASSY SHOW STEALER, CONSISTENT FAITHFULLY & SPEEDY COPPA HEAD FIELD AT 1 1/16 MILES IN $70,000 SANTA LUCIA STAKES ON SUNDAY AT SANTA ANITA ARCADIA, Calif. (June 1, 2017)— George Krikorian’s homebred Show Stealer, faced with the unenviable assignment...

TSV Staff Selection —- PENN NATIONAL Race 9), 1 Mile. (Turf) Penn Mile S. Grade II. Purse $500,000 FOR THREE-YEAR-OLDS Post Time: ( 7:45)/ 6:45/ 5:45/ 4:45 Bronson (2), Pletcher/Gaffalione; out of Medaglia d’ Oro, colt has won two of his last three, taking the English...

By Ed Golden —- • • TO THE VICTOR GOES THE STRATEGY IN THE BEHOLDER • • BAL A BALI AND SMITH READY FOR GRADE I SHOEMAKER • • JOCKEY DAVID FLORES RETURNS HOME TO SANTA ANITA • • AUDI TV SPOT SHOT AT SANTA ANITA AIRS ON NBA FINALS STELLAR WIND PRIMED, TACTICS UP TO ESPINOZA...

By Darren Rogers —- CLASSIC EMPIRE BREEZES HALF-MILE AT CHURCHILL DOWNS IN PREPARATION FOR BELMONT STAKES LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Friday, June 2, 2017) – John Oxley’s Classic Empire, runner-up in the Preakness (Grade I) and fourth-place finisher in the Kentucky Derby (GI), breezed...

NYRA Release —- • Classic Empire works easy half-mile for G1 Belmont Stakes • True Timber falls off Belmont trail; Dickinson set for G1 Just a Game • Pletcher adds Patch to his Belmont contingent • Back from leg fracture, Albarado to ride J Boys Echo in Belmont • Probable...

By David Joseph —- Saturday’s Rainbow 6 Carryover Jackpot Grows to $593,898 First-Race Post Time 12:55 P.M. for 12-Race Program Gaffalione Continues Hot Hand with Three More Winners Concealedwithakiss Back on Track in Ana T. Handicap HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – The 20-cent...

By John Heims —- CALI THIRTY SEVEN GOES FOR BACK-TO-BACK WINS IN SATURDAY’S EATONTOWN Cali Thirty Seven looks to make it back-to-back stakes victories and her first in graded company in Saturday’s $100,000 Grade 3 Eatontown Stakes going a mile and a sixteenth on the...

By Michael Chamberlain —- Pacific Pink; Coady Photography JOCKEY COLBY HERNANDEZ WINS BOTH STAKES ON FRIDAY PROGRAM OPELOUSAS, LA –Pacific Pink led a one-two charge for owner Keith Plaisance and trainer Edward Johnston in the $75,000 Spotted Horse Stakes at Evangeline Downs...

TSV Staff Selections —- Stellar Wind (outside) edges Beholder in Clement L. Hirsch; Benoit Photo A trio of Graded Stakes winning mares, Vale Dori, Stellar Wind and Finest City resume their head-to-head-to-head battles when they face off in the running of the Grade 1...

By Rick Francis —- Farhaan looks to upset the Grade 1 Shoemaker; All photos by Benoit Race 7) 1 Mile. (Turf) Shoemaker Mile S. Grade I. Purse $400,000 FOR THREE-YEAR-OLDS AND UPWARD. Post Time: 7:00/ 6:00/ 5:00/( 4:00) Heart to Heart (1), Lynch/Leparoux; tough 5-year-old...