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By Kevin Kilroy —- Built; Hodges Photography Built Piles it On the Gun Runner Field, Earns Ten Points Towards Kentucky Derby 151 Recaps for Sugar Bowl, Letellier, and Blushing K.D. New Orleans, La (Dec. 21, 2024) – To the lead and with plenty left in the tanks, Eclipse...

Stone Smuggler slips by in time in $500K NYSSS Fifth Avenue By Mary Eddy OZONE PARK, N.Y. – NY Final Furlong Racing Stable and SunsetRidge Racing Stable’s Stone Smuggler made all the right moves to notch her second career stakes victory in Saturday’s $500,000 Fifth Avenue...

By Mike Henry —- NIC’S STYLE SETS STAKES RECORD IN CITY OF OCALA; BIG MARTINI WINS OLDSMAR, FL. – After Nic’s Style ran second to top sprinter Ways and Means in the Grade II Gallant Bloom Stakes in New York on Sept. 29, trainer Bill Mott decided to tap on the brakes with...

by Robert Yates —- HOT SPRINGS, AR – Indiana-bred star Corningstone recorded her first career stakes victory in open company Saturday at Oaklawn, powering to 4 ¼-length victory over favored Taxed in the one-mile $150,000 Mistletoe for fillies and mares, 3 and up. Making her...

By Kevin Kilroy —- Hodges Photograph Millionaire Touchuponastar Matches Star Guitar with Third Classic Recaps of seven Louisiana Champions Day stakes New Orleans, La (Dec. 14, 2024) – With $750,000 in stakes purses on the line for the 34th Louisiana Champions Day at Fair...

By Kevin Kilroy —- Mystic Dan; Coady Photos Salute to Kentucky Derby Winner Mystik Dan Scheduled for Louisiana Champions Day at Fair Grounds Maycocks Bay is Back, Returns to Fair Grounds Winner’s Circle New Orleans, La (Dec. 10, 2024) – On Louisiana Champions Day, fans at...

By Kevin Kilroy —- Fair Grounds Releases Nominees for Road to the Derby Kickoff Day’s Eight-Stakes Extravaganza New Orleans, La (Dec. 10, 2024) – Nominations for the eight scheduled stakes on Road to the Derby Kickoff Day at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots have been...

By Robert Yates —- McCarlee Perkins Photo HOT SPRINGS, AR – Already a multiple Oaklawn allowance winner, Happy Is a Choice is now an Oaklawn stakes winner after capturing Saturday’s six-furlong $150,000 Ring the Bell for 3-year-olds and up. After breaking last from the...

Tizzy in the Sky makes the grade in G3 Go for Wand By Mary Eddy OZONE PARK, N.Y. – KimDon Racing’s Tizzy in the Sky stalked and pounced to a determined half-length victory for her first graded stakes win in Saturday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Go for Wand, a one-mile test for fillies and...

By David Joseph —- Lord Eddard Stark; Lauren King Photo Lord Eddard Stark Pulls Off 60-1 Upset in Jerkens Handicap HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – John Rowe’s Lord Eddard Stark caught Utah Beach at the finish line to pull off a 60-1 upset victory in the $115,000 H. Allen Jerkens...