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NYRA PRESS RELEASE —- Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith looking for a fifth Travers win on long shot Chess Chief Not That Brady to try to emulate dam Lisa’s Booby Trap in Albany Preservationist works Thursday for G1 Woodward; stablemate gets ‘Green Light’ for...

By David Joseph —- Friday’s Rainbow 6 Carryover Jackpot Grows to $793,147 HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – The 20-cent Rainbow 6 went unsolved for the 27th consecutive racing day Thursday at Gulfstream Park, producing a carryover jackpot of $793,147.53 for Friday’s 2 p.m. twilight...

By Tom Luicci —- OCEANPORT, N.J. – Monmouth Park’s longest stakes race of the year can’t come soon enough for trainer Tom Albertrani. He’s so eager to give the inaugural running of The Unbridled Essence Stakes at try that he will likely send two fillies postward for the...

NYRA PRESS OFFICE —- Grade 1 wins coast-to-coast for Team Brown Concrete Rose out for rest of the year Owendale on target for Travers following Saturday’s workout; arrives at Saratoga on Tuesday Scars Are Cool looks to add character to G1 Runhappy Travers field...

By Tom Luicci —- OCEANPORT, N.J. – With a limited budget to work with at the April sale at Keeneland for horses of racing age, Louis Linder, Jr. knew he had to be selective. The veteran trainer had sights set on one horse – a 3-year-old named War Treaty – but wasn’t sure if...

NYRA PRESS RELEASE —- Tax posts bullet breeze in preparation for G1 Runhappy Travers Endorsed breezes Friday, likely for G1 Runhappy Travers Mind Control returns to scene of first G1 win for G1 H. Allen Jerkens Pletcher impressed with Mystic Lancelot; Keeps Spinoff a...

By Tom Luicci —- OCEANPORT, N.J. – John Mazza knows exactly what he’s up against in sending out his nice Jersey-bred filly Horologist against the likes of 2018 Juvenile filly champion Jaywalk in Saturday’s Grade 3 Monmouth Oaks at Monmouth Park. But with a horse that’s...

By Don Stevens —- 84-DAY MEETING GETS UNDERWAY TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8 – VINTON, LA. – Delta Downs Racetrack Casino & Hotel today announced its 2019-20 Thoroughbred stakes schedule. The track will offer 26 stakes races during an 84-day season that runs from October 8,...

By Tom Luicci —- OCEANPORT, N.J. – Rather than trying to re-invent the wheel with his training regimen in an effort to get Jaywalk back on track this year, John Servis simply went back to what worked during the filly’s 2018 championship season. The early results are...

NYRA PRESS RELEASE —- Ostilio in fine fettle for G1 Fourstardave McLaughlin likely to point A Thread of Blue to $1 million Jockey Club Derby Glory Road possible for G1 Runhappy Hopeful By Your Side on target for G1 Hopeful on Closing Day Serengeti Empress Cotillion-bound...