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By Dan Smith —- RUN AWAY CAN’T HIDE FROM HIGH EXPECTATIONS IN BEST PAL Kaleem Shah’s Klimt used a victory in the Best Pal Stakes as a springboard to another in the Del Mar Futurity and honors as 2-year-old of the meeting in 2016. Now the founder and president of CalNet...

By Bailey Gallison —- • Permian Prepared for Secretariat Performance • Ascend Seeks Second Grade I in Arlington Million • Rouget’s Duo Get Final Prep Before Million Day PERMIAN PREPARED FOR SECRETARIAT PERFORMANCE With Scottish withdrawn from Saturday’s Grade I Arlington...

Fwd: DMTC News – From the Wire Kaleem Shah’s flashy Run Away, unbeaten in two starts, including the Santa Anita Juvenile, is the likely favorite versus seven rivals in Saturday’s Grade II $200,000 Best Pal Stakes for two-year-olds. Run Away, who will have Flavien Prat in...

NYRA RELEASE —- • Haskell runner-up McCraken on work tab for possible G1 Travers bid • Salty ‘super’ ahead of G1 Alabama; World Approval ‘on top of his game’ • Lookin At Lee eyeing start in Travers • Travers contender Girvin ‘perfect’...

By Bailey Gallison —- • Scottish Withdrawn From Arlington Million • Ballydoyle Trio Stretch Their Legs • Divisidero Gets Chance at Million Glory SCOTTISH WITHDRAWN FROM ARLINGTON MILLION Godolphin’s Scottish (IRE) has been withdrawn from the Grade I Arlington Million...

By Dan Smith —- Mike Smith; Benoit SMITH PLANS A QUIET BIRTHDAY, PARTLY COUNTING HIS BLESSINGS If, as the saying goes, you’re as young as you feel, how old is Mike Smith today? “I’m feeling pretty good, so I’d say I’m about 35,” Smith said Thursday morning by telephone,...

By Jennifer Hoyt —- HOT SPRINGS, AR (Aug. 10, 2017) – Stall applications for Oaklawn’s 2018 season are now available at www.oaklawn.com or by calling (501) 701-5570. Oaklawn has made several changes in advance of the live season that horsemen will find on the stall...

By Don Stevens —- HISTORIC LOUISIANA OVAL TO CONDUCT 84 DAYS OF RACING STARTING OCTOBER 18 – VINTON, LA. – Delta Downs’ racing office has announced that stall applications for the track’s 2017-18 Thoroughbred season are due by Monday, August 14. The upcoming meet is...

By Anthony Affrunti —- SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – A field of eight 2-year-old fillies will contest 6 ½ furlongs on the main track for connections who hope that their youngster could be a future champion, competing in the Grade 2 $200,000 Adirondack Saturday at Saratoga...

By Brian W. Spencer —- ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (August 9, 2017) – The Grade I $400,000 Secretariat Stakes, one of the premier Grade I turf stakes for 3-year-olds in America and throughout the world, has drawn an exceptional sextet of sophomores in 2017. Named for one of...