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By Brian Bohl —- ELMONT, N.Y. – Team Valor International and Earle Mack’s Spanish Mission dueled with 38-1 longshot Pedro Cara in deep stretch and gained supremacy in the final jumps to win the inaugural running of Saturday’s $1 million Jockey Club Derby...

By Grant LaGrange —- Flap Jack; Photos Provided By Arlington Park ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (September 7, 2019) – Flap Jack powered home impressively to win Saturday’s $75,000 Arlington Washington Futurity, the second of a pair of 2-year-old stakes races at Arlington...

By Ryan Martin —- ELMONT, N.Y. – In her first career start outside of France, Edisa backed up her favoritism, coming off a slow pace to make a winning bid down the stretch to capture the inaugural running of Saturday’s $750,000 Jockey Club Oaks Invitational, the...

NYRA PRESS OFFICE —- SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Andrew Stone’s Mrs. Sippy made her North American debut a winning one in Saturday’s Grade 2, $250,000 Glens Falls, a 1 3/8-mile inner turf route for fillies and mares 3-years-old and up at Saratoga Race Course....

By Tom Luicci —- OCEANPORT, N.J. – Freshened by a lengthy layoff while also getting some class relief, Postulation benefitted from an ideal stalking trip before kicking into gear coming out of the final turn to score an easy victory in the first running of the mile and a...

By Brian Bohl —- Preservationist; Photos by Adam Coglianese/NYRA SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Centennial Farms’ Preservationist capitalized on an aggressive mid-stretch move from jockey Junior Alvarado, splitting rivals between Tom’s d’Etat and Bal...

NYRA PRESS RELEASE — Annals of Time prevails in G1 Sword Dancer SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Annals of Time came from far off the pace to capture the 45th running of the Grade 1, $850,000 Sword Dancer and complete his comeback from an injury that sidelined him for almost...

By Tom Luicci —- OCEANPORT, N.J. – Even after Horologist won her first start by 20¾ lengths last year, doing so against colts, octogenarian trainer John Mazza held off on declaring his filly to be something special. There’s no need to do so any longer. Jersey-bred...

By Jon Forbes —- SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Mind Control made a determined rally to win the Grade 1, $500,000 H. Allen Jerkens presented by Runhappy in a four-way photo on Saturday at Saratoga Race Course. Backed as the 10-1 second choice in the field of nine, Mind...

By Brian Bohl —- Code of Honor; Chelsea Durand/NYRA Photo SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Shug McGaughey won his first Travers in 21 years and joined a select group of Hall of Fame conditioners with his fourth “Mid-Summer Derby” triumph when Code of Honor...