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Racing Updates Compiled by Robert Yates Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025 High-percentage trainer Armando Hernandez returns to Oaklawn in 2025-2026 with a bigger stable and bigger aspirations. The Illinois-based Hernandez had a string at Oaklawn for the first time in 2024-2025, finishing...

By Kevin Kilroy —- Top Earner Bear River Leads Classy, Competitive Edition of Thanksgiving Classic NEW ORLEANS (Nov. 24, 2025) – The table is set for nine older male sprinters in Thursday’s $175,000 Thanksgiving Classic at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots, where the...

By Mike Henry —- OLDSMAR, FL. – Based on the first two days of the 2025-26 Tampa Bay Downs meet, Samuel Marin isn’t going to have a whole lot of spare time this season between races. Last season’s leading jockey, who won two races from eight mounts on Wednesday’s Opening...

By Mike Henry —- OPENING DAY REVIEWS PROMISE PLENTY OF EXCITEMENT, FUN AHEAD OLDSMAR, FL. – For many of the track’s employees, horsewomen, horsemen and jockeys, Wednesday’s Opening Day performance at Tampa Bay Downs produced the type of jitters normally associated with a...

NYRA PRESS OFFICE —- Aqueduct Racetrack Notes Sunday Girl and Intentious contest Saturday’s NYSSS Staten Island West Point Thoroughbreds enjoys 3-for-3 week at Aqueduct Racetrack Fast Market headlines rescheduled Grade 3 Pebbles; Nice as Pie leads rescheduled $150K Forever...

Racing Updates Compiled by Robert Yates Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025 As anticipated, it was a quiet 2024-2025 Oaklawn meeting for Hot Springs owner Staton Flurry. Flurry, a season removed from a full-force push for his first Oaklawn owner’s title, had only 19 starts as a sole owner,...

By Mike Henry —- OPENING DAY BRINGS BACK THE MEMORIES AND RACING THRILLS OLDSMAR, FL. – Dennis Petrucelli, a former rider who has overseen the Tampa Bay Downs jockeys room as the track’s Clerk of Scales for 15 years, feels a surge of familiar energy every Opening Day. The...

Racing Updates Compiled by Robert Yates Stakes-winning Hola Joey is scheduled to return to Oaklawn later this month to begin preparations for a 4-year-old campaign, trainer Gene Jacquot said Tuesday morning. Hola Joey completed a productive 2025 with a neck victory over older...

NYRA PRESS OFFICE —- Saturday, November 15, 2025 Aqueduct Racetrack Notes Dylan Davis recovering after Friday spill Phileas Fogg on point for G2 Cigar Mile Handicap Crazy Mason works for G2 Cigar Mile Balboa possible for G2 Remsen OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Jockey Dylan Davis will...

By Mike Henry —- JOCKEY SAMUEL MARIN, LEFT, WITH HIS AGENT, MIKE MORAN) OLDSMAR, FL. – Samuel Marin, who won last season’s Tampa Bay Downs jockeys title by riding 116 winners, received feelers during the summer about shifting his base of operations to the New York winter...