Fair Grounds Barn Notes: Black Gold Carryover Reaches $98,541.73

By Ryan Martin —- • Amoss Has High Hopes For Lecomte Aspirant Lone Sailor • Rapid Rhythm To Make Final Start in Pan Zareta; Will Breed To Tonalist • Stakes Winners Clash In Friday Allowance Event • Team Casse Looking Ahead With Promising Allowance Winner Pretty Lady AMOSS...
Posted On 05 Jan 2018
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DELACOUR’S STRONG 2017 CAPPED BY TRAINER OF MONTH HONOR

By Mike Henry —- OLDSMAR, FL. – Arnaud Delacour turned a few heads after Saturday’s Lightning City Stakes when he said his winning turf sprint filly Smiling Causeway might not race again until May in The Very One Stakes at Pimlico. Normally, a victory by a 3-year-old (now...
Posted On 04 Jan 2018
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Fair Grounds Barn Notes: Monday, January 1, 2018

By Ryan Martin —- Louisiana Futurity Winners To Make Next Start At Delta Downs • Margolis Eyes Delta Downs’ Big Drama Stakes For Bourne In Nixa; Ebben Still On Track For Lecomte • Ride a Comet To Try Turf In Saturday Allowance Event LOUISIANA FUTURITY WINNERS TO MAKE NEXT...
Posted On 02 Jan 2018
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SANTA ANITA STABLE NOTES MONDAY, JANUARY 1, 2018

By Ed Golden —- DISTANCE, BLINKERS SIGNIFICANT IN SHAM? MAIDEN TO START IN GRADE II SANTA YNEZ HEALTHY FREE ROSE SET FOR SAN GABRIEL LEWIS EXPECTS ‘HAPPY’ IMPROVEMENT IN SHAM STAKES Here Is Happy is light years away in talent at this stage from 1995 Santa Anita Derby winner...
Posted On 02 Jan 2018
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TAMPA BAY: MUCH FOR FANS TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN 2018; GALLARDO RED-HOT

By Mike Henry —- OLDSMAR, FL. – Although many music lovers are most familiar with the Bachman-Turner Overdrive version of “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet,” it might have been the “Greatest Showman” himself, P.T. Barnum himself, who coined the phrase. Regardless of its origins,...
Posted On 31 Dec 2017
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SANTA ANITA STABLE NOTES

By Ed Golden —- • VICTOR LOOKS FOR MORE VICTORIES IN 2018 • BLANC BIDS GOODBYE TO 2017 WITH A BANG • STEPH BEING STEPH DRILLS FOR SANTA YNEZ ESPINOZA LOOKS FORWARD TO THE NEW YEAR It’s light years from American Pharoah, California Chrome and Stellar Wind, champions all, but...
Posted On 31 Dec 2017
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Fair Grounds Barn Notes: Sunday, December 31, 2017

By Ryan Martin —- * Gun Runner, Seeking The Soul Resume Pegasus World Cup Preparations * Mr. Misunderstood, Hallie Belle Look Ahead Following Saturday’s Stakes Victories GUN RUNNER, SEEKING THE SOUL RESUME PEGASUS WORLD CUP PREPARATIONS Gun Runner; All photos by Hodges...
Posted On 31 Dec 2017
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Fair Grounds Barn Notes: Saturday, December 30

By Ryan Martin —- Greeley Went West, Divine Bean Set For Rematch in Louisiana Futurity • Wonder Gadot Could Face Colts in Lecomte • Albarado Ships To Aqueduct on New Year’s Day For Jerome • Woodmans Luck Still Going Strong at Age 10 GREELEY WENT WEST, DIVINE BEAN SET FOR...
Posted On 31 Dec 2017
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SANTA ANITA STABLE NOTES

By Ed Golden —- HE QUALITY SEEMS RED HOT IN BLUE NORTHER ONE FAST BROAD BACK ON TURF FOR TEAM RUIS DESORMEAUX OFF AND WINNING AT SANTA ANITA BLUE NORTHER STAKES COULD MAKE THE GRADE Monday’s Joe Hernandez Stakes is a restricted race offering $75,000 in purse money, but...
Posted On 31 Dec 2017
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LIGHTNING CITY, TURF DASH DRAW SALTY FIELDS; GALLARDO JOCKEY OF MONTH

By Mike Henry —- OLDSMAR, FL. – Back troubles have prevented owner-trainer Kathleen DeMasi from flying from her Parx Racing base in Pennsylvania to Oldsmar for Saturday’s $100,000 Lightning City Stakes and $100,000 Turf Dash Stakes. But DeMasi believes her entrants, the...
Posted On 30 Dec 2017
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