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NYRA PRESS OFFICE —- Saratoga Race Course Notes Sovereignty tunes up for G1 DraftKings Travers with half-mile breeze Magnitude works for G1 DraftKings Travers Strategic Focus adds blinkers for latest work, targets G1 DraftKings Travers next Good Cheer breezes for G1 Alabama...

NYRA PRESS OFFICE —- Friday, August 8, 2025 Saratoga Race Course Notes Dual G1-winner La Cara works for G1 Alabama pres. by Keeneland Sales Pop Idol lands career-best 87 BSF for Galway coup; G1-winners Dorth Vader, Sacred Wish breeze at Saratoga Nations Pride, El Cordobes...

NYRA PRESS OFFICE —- Saratoga Race Course Notes Evershed makes stakes bow in G2 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Oaks Invitational May Day Ready points to G2 Lake Placid Ocean Club looks for another graded score in G2 Ballston Spa SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Mark Grier’s Evershed will...

By Tom Luicci —- TRAINER DIANE MORICI LOOKING FOR BIG EFFORT FROM SHRUG IN SUNDAY’S $100,000 OCEANPORT STAKES AT MONMOUTH PARK OCEANPORT, N.J. – Trainer Diane Morici’s 34-horse barn at Monmouth Park mostly consists of allowance horse, claimers and 2-year-olds. But when she...

Racing Updates Compiled by Robert Yates Thursday, August 7, 2025 After winning the country’s biggest race for 3-year-olds in 2024, Oaklawn stakes winner Mystik Dan eyes a major turf prize Saturday at Colonial Downs when he makes his grass debut in the prestigious G1-Arlington...

NYRA PRESS OFFICE —- Sunday, August 3, 2025 Saratoga Race Course Notes Sierra Leone’s G1 Whitney win a satisfying one for Chad Brown Riley Mott savoring first graded win with World Beater in G1 Saratoga Derby Inv. Deterministic stakes claim as divisional leader Ewing to...

NYRA PRESS OFFICE —- Saratoga Race Course Notes Appleby raiders Nations Pride, El Cordobes arrive for G1 Resorts World Casino Sword Dancer Post Time among eight millionaires in G1 Whitney Highland Falls returns to the Spa in G1 Whitney Think Big swings for the fences in G1...

Racing Updates Compiled by Robert Yates Thursday, July 31, 2025 The accomplished Skippylongstocking is one of three Oaklawn-raced horses entered in the prestigious $1 million G1-Whitney Stakes for older horses at 1 1/8 miles Saturday at Saratoga. Probable post time for the...

Racing Updates Compiled by Robert Yates Tuesday, July 29, 2025 One of Oaklawn’s major Kentucky Derby prep races received another boost when Louisiana-bred standout Smoken Wicked rolled to a 5 ¾-length victory in the $200,000 G2-Amsterdam Stakes for 3-year-old sprinters Friday at...

Eight millionaires among star-studded cast for G1 Whitney Fierceness; Chelsea Durand By NYRA Press Office SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – A star-studded cast featuring Champions Fierceness and Sierra Leone and a sextet of fellow millionaires led by four-time Grade 1 winner White Abarrio...