Run Away Favored Versus Seven Foes in Best Pal Stakes

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...
Posted On 11 Aug 2017
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Saratoga Race Course Notes

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’...
Posted On 10 Aug 2017
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Arlington International Racecourse Barn Notes: Thursday, August 10

By Bailey Gallison —- • Scottish Withdrawn From Arlington Million • Ballydoyle Trio Stretch Their Legs • Divisidero Gets Chance at Million Glory SCOTTISH WITHDRAWN FROM ARLINGTON MILLION Godolphin’s Scottish (IRE) has been withdrawn from the Grade I Arlington Million...
Posted On 10 Aug 2017
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Del Mar Stable Notes Aug 10, 2017

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,...
Posted On 10 Aug 2017
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OAKLAWN STALL APPLICATIONS NOW AVAILABLE

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...
Posted On 10 Aug 2017
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DELTA DOWNS STALL APPLICATIONS FOR UPCOMING 2017-18 THOROUGHBRED SEASON

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...
Posted On 10 Aug 2017
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Talented youth ready to roll in G2 Adirondack

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...
Posted On 09 Aug 2017
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OSCAR PERFORMANCE, PERMIAN CLASH IN STELLAR SECRETARIAT

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...
Posted On 09 Aug 2017
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Saratoga Race Course Notes August 9th

NYRA RELEASE —- • Practical Joke on point for G1 H. Allen Jerkens; Brown still pondering Travers contingent • Good Samaritan, Always Dreaming among G1 Travers contenders on target to breeze this weekend • Mind Your Biscuits expected to breeze on Friday, could target G1...
Posted On 09 Aug 2017
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Eight Cal-Bred Distaff Runners Clash in Solana Beach Stakes Friday

DMTC News – From the Wire —- Eight older California-bred fillies and mares, including the 2016 winner, Majestic Heat, will compete Friday in the featured $150,000 Solana Beach Stakes at a mile and one-sixteenth over Del Mar’s infield Jimmy Durante grass course....
Posted On 09 Aug 2017
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