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DMTC News – From the Wire DAY 7 THREE FROM BREEDERS’ CUP SPRINT RETURN FOR BING CROSBY The first, fourth and fifth-place finishers from the $1.5 million Breeders’ Cup Sprint last November are back at Del Mar as part of a deeply talented field of 11 for Saturday’s $300,000...

By David Joseph —- She Takes Heart Seeks a Little Fun in Saturday’s Added Elegance Archer Road Targets Co-Featured Copingaway Stakes HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – She Takes Heart was claimed for $62,500 by Ron Paolucci May 10, a couple months before the colorful operator of Loooch...

By Brian Bohl —- Hi Happy looks to strike in Saturday’s G2 Bowling Green – La Providencia’s Hi Happy will look to add a third graded stakes win in the current campaign when he makes his Saratoga Race Course debut Saturday, headlining a field of nine in the...

By Anthony Affrunti —- SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – A field of five 3-year-olds will be sent from the gate in Saturday’s Grade 2, $600,000 Jim Dandy presented by NYRA Bets. The 55th running of the 1 1/8-mile route will be broadcast on Saratoga Live from 6-7 p.m....

NYRA RELEASE —- SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Raymond Mamone’s Grade 2 True North winner Imperial Hint will shoulder the 124-pound high weight as he makes his first start at Saratoga Race Course against a field of seven in the Grade 1, $350,000 Alfred G. Vanderbilt...

DMTC News – From the Wire DAY 6 JUSTIFY RETIRED; WILL PARADE FOR FANS HERE SATURDAY Bob Baffert was by himself in a second-floor grandstand box when approached by two writers around 7:30 Wednesday morning. Naturally, the first subject was Justify. “We’ve been doing therapy...

By Tom Luicci —- GRADE 3 WINNER GOLDEN BROWN ADDED TO HASKELL LINEUP BRINGING FIELD TO 7 FOR SUNDAY’S $1 MILLION RACE OCEANPORT, N.J. – The betfaircom Haskell Invitational added a little more Jersey flavor to Sunday’s 51st edition of Monmouth Park’s signature race, with...

By Tom Luicci —- OCEANPORT, N.J. – The time-tested axiom that pace makes the race is precisely the reason that trainer Tom Amoss announced today that he has decided to send Lone Sailor – runner-up in the Ohio Derby and the Louisiana Derby – to Sunday’s betfair.com Haskell...

NYRA RELEASE —- SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Juddmonte Farm’s Hofburg could strike an imposing figure in the $100,000 Curlin at Saratoga Race Course as he looks to use Friday’s stakes for 3-year-olds at 1 1/8 miles as a springboard to next month’s Grade...

By Tom Luicci —- NAVY COMMANDER TO FACE HIS TOUGHEST TEST YET IN SUNDAY’S BETFAIR.COM HASKELL INVITATIONAL OCEANPORT, N.J. – Trainer Robert “Butch” Reid knows exactly what he’s up against in sending Navy Commander to his first graded stakes test in Sunday’s betfair.com...