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DMTC NEWS —- Danzing Candy, the 8-5 morning line favorite for Saturday’s Grade II $200,000 Pat O’Brien Stakes, suffered a career-ending fracture to an ankle Friday morning during a routine gallop on the eve of the race. “Just took a bad step,” owner Ted Aroney, said by...

By Matt Pappis, TSV Staff Writer —- Race 1: 8-6-2-5 Race 2: 1-3-8 Race 3: 9-10-8-5 Race 4: 8-4-3 Race 5: 10-7-8 Race 6) Grade I Personal Ensign Songbird (2): Her numbers don’t stack up to what she ran last year but she is the champ and they have to beat her. Forever...

By Bailey Gallison —- Postulation Proves a Winner for Runnymede Racing  What’s Up Dude Targets Next Synthetic Start  Arlington Adds Overnight Stakes to Schedule POSTULATION PROVES A WINNER FOR RUNNYMEDE RACING Three years after capturing the 2014 Grade I Arlington Million...

DMTC NEWS- DAN SMITH —- STEVENS’ CHOICE: GIANT EXPECTATIONS OVER KOBE’S BACK Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens has been on the back of Kobe’s Back for 14 of the last 15 in 24 lifetime starts for the 6-year-old, Kentucky-bred son of Flatter. All but one since Kobe’s Back came...

NYRA RELEASE —- Songbird ‘bigger and stronger’ for G1 Personal Ensign ‘All systems go’ for Pletcher’s Travers Day contingent G1 Travers contender West Coast progresses for Baffert Summers cranks up the tunes for Mind Your Biscuits Lynch gets...

By John Heims —- CONQUEST BIG E LOOKS TO ADD TO HIS WIN STREAK IN ISELIN Conquest Big E will try to make it three straight wins and his first graded stakes victory when he faces four others in Saturday’s Grade 3, $100,000 Phillip H. Iselin Stakes, going a mile and an...

By Lynne Snierson —- SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – With the imposing presence of dual champion and nine-time Grade 1 winner Songbird entered in Saturday’s Grade 1, $700,000 Personal Ensign, a compact yet talented field of five fillies and mares is set to contest the...

By Brian Bohl —- European winners give G1 Sword Dancer international flair SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Niarchos Family’s Irish-bred Erupt will be looking for his second Grade 1 win in as many starts as he headlines a diverse field of seven in the Grade 1, $1...

By Heather Pettinger —- SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Attracting all three winners of the year’s Triple Crown races for the first time since 1982, and only the second time in the Mid-Summer Derby’s storied tradition, Kentucky Derby victor Always Dreaming,...

DMTC News – From the Wire —- ELEVEN ENTERED IN SATURDAY’S PAT O’BRIEN STAKES A field of eleven was entered Wednesday in Saturday’s Grade II $200,000 Pat O’Brien Stakes, the last of five Breeders’ Cup “Win and You’re In” Challenge Series events of the summer meeting....