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Brian W. Spencer Michael Adolphson —- Hodges Photography NEW ORLEANS (January 22, 2017) – Jockey Robby Albarado joined an elite group on Sunday at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots when earning his 5,000th career victory. The 43-year-old Lafayette, Louisiana, native...

NTRA RELEASE —- HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla.– The National Thoroughbred Racing Association, Daily Racing Form and the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters announced this evening that California Chrome, winner of the Dubai World Cup and the TVG Pacific Classic, and Nor...

By David Joseph —- Promising Sophomores Irish War Cry, Painter’s Rags Breeze Sunday Racing Resumes Wednesday with Carryovers in Rainbow 6, Super Hi-5 HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Irish War Cry and Painter’s Rags, a pair of promising undefeated colts trained by Graham Motion,...

By Brian Spencer —- NEW ORLEANS (January 22, 2017) – As directed by the official protocols set forth by the Louisiana Department of Agriculture, the quarantine on horses entering and exiting the property at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots expired at 12 a.m. Sunday,...

By Mike Willman —- IN FINAL DRILL FOR $12 PEGASUS WORLD CUP INVITATIONAL, BAFFERT’S ARROGATE GOES SIX FURLONGS IN 1:12.13; BREEDERS’ CUP CLASSIC CHAMP HANDLES ‘WET-FAST’ SURFACE WITH APLOMB, WILL FLY TO FLORIDA TUESDAY STAGE SET FOR EPIC REMATCH WITH LEGENDARY CALIFORNIA...

By Mike Henry —- OLDSMAR, FL. – For a few minutes following today’s $100,000 Gasparilla Stakes, leading Tampa Bay Downs trainer Gerald Bennett might have felt as if he was in a never-ending bad dream. Bennett, who sent out second-place finishers in two earlier stakes races...

By David Joseph —- Filly Winner Looks ‘Super’ $75,000 Marshua Winter Leaves Rivals in the Cold in $75,000 Nellie Morse Jockey McCarthy Posts Three-Stakes Riding Triple LAUREL, MD – Louis Ulman and Stephen Parker’s High Roller opened his sophomore season in successful...

By Ed Golden —- • ESPINOZA’S WILD RIDE ON CHROME COULD CONTINUE • APPRENTICE FUENTES WINS FIRST RACE AT SANTA ANITA • STEVENS PROGRESSING FROM LEFT HIP REPLACEMENT CALIFORNIA CHROME: IT AIN’T OVER TILL IT’S OVER Victor Espinoza, who journeyed worldwide aboard California...

By David Joseph —- Final career work for California Chrome California Chrome breezes for the final time; Leslie Martin photo North America’s richest racehorse breezes for Pegasus World Cup (G1) HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – In what was the final breeze of his storied career...

Ron Correll Senior columnist Tracksideview—- We’ve now had four points’ races in 2017 on the road to the Kentucky Derby on the first Saturday in May and all of them have been run on sloppy racetracks. That still may not give one a good idea how the colts will go over a dry...