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By Don Stevens —- JEFF AND J’S DREAM RALLIES LATE FOR BIG UPSET IN OWNERS’ APPRECIATION DAY STAKES AT DELTA DOWNS ON CLOSING NIGHT – VIEJA LUNA CAPTURES THE OWNERS’ APPRECIATION DAY DISTAFF STAKES – VINTON, LA. – Delta Downs closed out its 2016-17 Thoroughbred...

By Heather Pettinger —- OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Constantine Peter Beler’s Spartiatis scored his first stakes victory, reeling in a front-running Chief Lion in the 42nd running of the Grade 3, $200,000 Tom Fool Handicap for older sprinters on the inner track on...

Ron Correll Senior columnist Tracksideview —- Mastery easily won the battle in the Grade 2 San Felipe on March 11 at Santa Anita Park in Southern California but he lost the Kentucky Derby war when he was pulled up with a condylar fracture in his left front leg. Trainer Bob...

By Jennifer Hoyt —- Untrapped Completes Rebel Stakes Work Untrapped completed major preparations for the $900,000 Rebel Stakes (G2) March 18 with a 5-furlong work on a cloudy, chilly Saturday morning at Oaklawn. Breezing over a fast surface about 40 minutes after the track...

By David Joseph —- Improves to 3-0 at Gulfstream with Second Straight Stakes Win HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – It took the winter for Stoneway Farm’s Pretty Perfection to heat up, reeling off her third consecutive victory and second straight in a stakes in Saturday’s $75,000...

By Michael Adolphson —- • Girvin Works Toward Louisiana Derby • Mo Tom Gets Serious in Bullet Move Gun Runner; Churchill Downs File Photo GUN RUNNER HAS FINAL SERIOUS WORK FOR DUBAI With two weeks until he faces the world’s top-ranked horse, Juddmonte Farms’ Bob...

By Jennifer Hoyt —- Whitmore; Coady Photo HOT SPRINGS, AR (Saturday, March 11, 2017) – Last year’s Triple Crown race hopeful Whitmore stamped himself as this year’s top sprinter with an impressive six length victory in Saturday’s $125,000 Hot Springs Stakes, the co-feature...

By Mike Henry —- OLDSMAR, FL. – If the winner of today’s 37th Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby, Tapwrit, goes on to greater glory, the 10,079 fans in attendance at Tampa Bay Downs may remember his decisive surge entering the far turn as “the move.” “He just exploded,” said...

By Mike Willman —- STREAKING GOODYEARFORROSES HEADS SUNDAY’S GRADE II, $200,000 SANTA ANA STAKES AT 1 1/8 MILES ON TURF; TRAINED BY BALTAS, SHE BIDS FOR HER THIRD CONSECUTIVE WIN WITH NAKATANI UP ARCADIA, Calif. —Seemingly invigorated since changing her base of operations...

By Mike Henry —- OLDSMAR, FL. – A few weeks ago, hopes were high that trainer Mark Casse would arrive for Festival Day at Tampa Bay Downs on Saturday with a pair of Eclipse Award champions set to compete. Although those tentative plans fell by the wayside, Casse could be a...