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By Grant LaGrange —- Calumet Farm’s Coachwhip drew clear in the final 1/16th- of a mile to win the GIII Arlington Matron impressively. A field of ten was scratched down to six older fillies who were sent 1 1/8th- miles over the Arlington synthetic main track. Jockey Tyler...

By Grant LaGrange —- Oakview Stable’s Lanier cruised home with an easy open length win in the 2019 version of the $100,000 GIII Hanshin Cup at Arlington. This was the 25th year that Arlington ran an exchange race with the Japan Racing Association. A field of 10 older horses...

By Gary Yunt —- Notes Team Captain Churchill Downs Photo SERENGETI EMPRESS WINS 145TH LONGINES KENTUCKY OAKS BEFORE CROWD OF 105,719 LOUISVILLE, KY (Friday, May 3, 2019) – Joel Politi’s Serengeti Empress grabbed the advantage out of the gate and repelled a stretch bid from...

By Jennifer Hoyt —- Nitrous; Keeneland Photo NITROUS TURNS UP THE GAS IN BACHELOR SCORE HOT SPRINGS, AR (Saturday, April 27, 2019) – A gray horse won, just not the one everyone was expecting as Winchell Thoroughbred LLC and Stonestreet Stables LLC’s Nitrous used a powerful...

By Michael Chamberlain —- Underpressure; Coady Photography HORSE GETS THIRD STAKES WIN IN THE LAST FIVE STARTS OPELOUSAS, LA – It wasn’t the easiest of victories in the $75,000 Evangeline Downs Classic for Underpressure on Saturday night. He had to survive both a stewards’...

By Jennifer Hoyt —- Oaklawn Park Photo HOT SPRINGS, AR (Sunday, April 14, 2019) – Favorite Midnight Bisou demonstrated her championship potential by grinding out a narrow win over the hard-fighting Escape Clause in Sunday’s $750,000 Apple Blossom Handicap (G1). It was the...

By Jennifer Hoyt —- $1 Million Arkansas Derby (G1) Quotes: Winning trainer Richard Mandella, Omaha Beach: “He looked like he was well within himself and Mike (Smith) just let him enjoy his job, just stride out and go where he went. My first thought was, ‘Jeez, don’t move...

By Amy Owens —- LEXINGTON, KY (April 13, 2019) – E Five Racing Thoroughbreds’ brilliant Rushing Fall took the lead out of the gate and held off a late bid from stablemate Rymska (FR) by a length to win the 31st running of the $350,000 Coolmore Jenny Wiley (G1) for fillies...

Another Broad soars to victory in Top Flight Invitational —- By Keith McCalmont OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Another Broad made her Aqueduct Racetrack debut a winning one with a dramatic late rally under Manny Franco in Saturday’s $200,000 Top Flight Invitational, a...

By Amy Owens —- Click here for a video about the race day at Keeneland Dynatail Wins Wednesday’s Featured Whitney Purse LEXINGTON, KY (April 10, 2019) – Ballybrit Stable’s Dynatail inched past pacesetting Bonnie Arch a few strides before the finish line to win the $87,000...