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NYRA Release —- *** For 2018 Belmont Stakes Racing Festival workout videos and interviews, please visit NYRA’s YouTube channel at https://bit.ly/2L4Y8lI • Baffert at Churchill Downs to see undefeated Triple Crown hopeful Justify breeze a half mile in 46 4/5 seconds...

By Darren Rogers —- SPRINT ONE OF TWO STAKES ON SATURDAY’S ‘DOWNS AFTER DARK’ CARD LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Chris Wilkins’ multiple stakes winner Wilbo heads a competitive field of seven older sprinters that were entered in Saturday night’s 30th running of the $100,000 Aristides...

NYRA Release —- *** For 2018 Belmont Stakes Racing Festival workout videos and interviews, please visit NYRA’s YouTube channel at https://bit.ly/2L4Y8lI *** • Triple Crown hopeful Justify could have ‘a little breeze’ Tuesday • Bolt d’Oro puts in...

By Darren Rogers —- Justify; Coady Photography LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Monday, May 28, 2018) – Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert arrived in Louisville on Sunday to watch his undefeated Kentucky Derby (Grade I) and Preakness (GI) winner Justify gallop 1 ½ miles Monday morning at...

By Bailey Gallison —- CARLOS MARQUEZ, JR. ONE PHOTO AWAY FROM MILESTONE WIN When jockey Carlos Marquez, Jr. first got into the game back in 1984 his father Carlos Marquez, Sr. – also a jockey – told him that if he maintained a strong work ethic and devoted himself to the...

By Ed Golden —- • O’NEILL HOPES NO PLACE LIKE HOME FOR PAVEL • TALAMO, DR. DORR PERFECT FOR RICH GOLD CUP • MOPOTISM MAKES TURF DEBUT IN GRADE I GAMELY • GALLAGHER IS COUNTING ON FRENCH CONNECTION • EVIN ROMAN COULD RESUME RIDING AGAIN JUNE 7 PAVEL GOOD AS GOLD (CUP) AFTER...

NYRA Release —- • Noble Indy joins Vino Rosso ‘in the mix’ for G1 Belmont Stakes; Audible to get freshening for summer campaign • Hofburg puts in Saratoga breeze in preparation for Belmont Stakes • G1 Acorn part of Monomoy Girl’s pursuit of championship •...

By John Heims —- PAGE MCKENNEY LOOKING TO ADD TO REMARKABLE CAREER IN SATURDAY’S GRADE 3 SALVATOR MILE AT MONMOUTH PARK OCEANPORT, N.J. – When trainer Mary Eppler claimed Page McKenney for $16,000 in 2013 for owners Adam Staple and Jalin Stable she barely gave it a second...

By Darren Rogers —- LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Friday, May 25, 2018) – Kentucky Derby (Grade I) and Preakness (GI) winner Justify continued his training Friday morning at Churchill Downs with a 1 ½-mile gallop under Humberto Gomez in preparation for the third jewel of racing’s Triple...

By Mike Willman —- ITSINTHEPOST (Inside) Zoe Metz Photography ITSINTHEPOST STANDS TALL AS HE HEADS SATURDAY’S GRADE II, $200,000 CHARLES WHITTINGHAM STAKES AT 1 ¼ MILES ON TURF; WHAT A VIEW, KENJISSTORM & SYNTAX ALL LEND DEPTH TO STRONG OVERALL CAST RACE NAMED IN HONOR...