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By Don Stevens —- 7-YEAR-OLD GELDING RIDDEN TO VICTORY BY JOCKEY ASHLEY BROUSSARD – VINTON, LA. – Delta Downs hosted the $100,000 Gold Cup Stakes on Saturday night as the track closed out the first week of its new Thoroughbred season. The one-mile Gold Cup for...

By Amy Owens —- Lovely Bernadette Gets Ground-Saving Trip to Win Pin Oak Valley View LEXINGTON, KY (Oct. 20, 2017) – James Miller’s Lovely Bernadette swept by pacesetting I’m Betty G inside the sixteenth pole and had more than enough left to hold off favored Journey Home by...

By Amy Owens —- FRIDAY, OCT. 20 Keeneland’s 17-day Fall Meet concludes Saturday, Oct. 28, with racing on Wednesdays through Sundays. Post time for the first race each day is 1:05 p.m. ET. ********** · HORSEMEN TALK ABOUT WEEKEND STAKES HORSES · LIVE OAK PLANTATION, G. WATTS...

By Ed Golden —- PARADISE WOODS, AVENGE BREEZE FOR BREEDERS’ CUP DR. TROUTMAN BACK DOWN THE HILL IN CALIFORNIA FLAG OLD WARHORSE ROYAL F J IS RETIRED AFTER 102 RACES FANS WILL BE ‘IN THE PINK’ ON SATURDAY AT SANTA ANITA Paradise Woods; All Photos by Zoe Metz PARADISE WOO...

By Don Stevens —- 3-YEAR-OLD FILLY NOTCHES HER SEVENTH WIN FROM NINE CAREER STARTS – VINTON, LA. – Delta Downs hosted the first stakes race of its 2017-18 Thoroughbred season on Friday night and it was the 3-year-old filly Mr. Al’s Gal who came away the win in the...

By Amy Owens —- LEXINGTON, KY (Oct. 19, 2017) – Union Rags Racing’s Big Bend swept to the front at mid stretch with a powerful burst and then had more than enough left in the tank to hold off Nessy by three-quarters of a length and win the 23rd running of the $100,000...

By Ed Golden —- SATURDAY’S STAKES RACE IS NAMED FOR CALIFORNIA FLAG CHILD ACTOR ETHAN JONES TO APPEAR IN ‘LET THERE BE LIGHT’ ‘DIAMONDS’ WORKS FOR BREEDERS’ CUP FILLY & MARE SPRINT FANS WILL BE ‘IN THE PINK’ THIS SATURDAY AT SANTA ANITA CALIFORNIA FLAG SET BREEDERS’...

By Amy Owens —- THURSDAY, OCT. 19 Keeneland’s 17-day Fall Meet concludes Saturday, Oct. 28, with racing on Wednesdays through Sundays. Post time for the first race each day is 1:05 p.m. ET. ********** · APPLE BETTY (IRE) HEADLINES FIELD OF 10 FOR SUNDAY’S ROOD & RIDDLE...

By Brian Bohl —- ELMONT, N.Y. – Graded stakes winner Souper Tapit will look to parlay class relief into a second consecutive victory in Sunday’s third running of the $100,000 English Channel for 3-year-olds on Belmont Park’s Widener turf. Owned by Live Oak...

By Mike Willman —- BAFFERT’S JUST A SMIDGE TRIES TO REBOUND AS SHE HEADS COMPETITIVE $70,000 ANOAKIA STAKES AT SIX FURLONGS THIS SUNDAY AT SANTA ANITA ARCADIA, Calif. (Oct. 19, 2017)—Favored two starts back in a Grade I stakes and well beaten in another Grade I on Sept. 30,...