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By Brian Spencer —- NEW ORLEANS (January 2, 2017) – Two horses on the backstretch at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots spiked temperatures Monday morning. As a result of this development, the precautionary step has been taken to place the entirety of the Fair Grounds...

By Mike Henry —- OLDSMAR, FL. – For the majority of participants in Thoroughbred racing, their involvement transcends making a living. Many adopt a nomadic existence, moving from one track to the next and from state to state at least once or twice a year. Anyone who has...

By Ed Golden —- • NEW YEAR OFF TO A WINNING START FOR NAKATANI • SHAH TURNS HIS HORSES OVER TO SHERMAN, O’NEILL • SHANE’S GIRLFRIEND TO RUN IN SANTA YNEZ STAKES NAKATANI RETURNS TO SANTA ANITA A WINNER Corey Nakatani is back. Now 46, the native of Covina has returned to...

By Michael Adolphson, Brian Spencer —- NEW ORLEANS (January 1, 2017) – A third horse has tested positive for equine herpes at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots. The horse, trained by Mike Stidham, resides in Barn 36 and contracted EHV-1 non-neurogenic type, also call...

NYRA RELEASE —- OZONE PARK, N.Y. – A field of seven newly minted 3-year-olds will look to start 2017 off right on Monday’s special holiday card at Aqueduct Racetrack as New York’s road to the Kentucky Derby makes its first stop of the year in the Grade 3,...

NYRA RELEASE —- OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Eight maiden races worth $100,000 each will be offered this spring as part of the New York Racing Association’s ongoing program for 2-year-olds leading up to the Astoria and Tremont, run on June 8 and 9 as the first two...

By Michael Adolphson —- • Geroux Asserts in Jockey Standings • Yockey’s Warrior Has Options for Stall • Work Tab Hodges Photography GEROUX ASSERTS IN JOCKEY STANDINGS Jockey Florent Geroux has quickly asserted himself in the jockey colony at Fair Grounds Race Course &...

By Bob Ehalt —- OZONE PARK, N.Y. – A cold, early January afternoon is hardly the place anyone might expect to find a race with the second-oldest history in New York racing. Yet for the Jerome Stakes, change has been a way of life. First contested in the post-Civil War...

By Ed Golden —- • D’AMATO SEES A ‘BIG PERFORMANCE’ VS. ARROGATE • MOKAT ON OUTSIDE LOOKING IN FOR AMERICAN OAKS • SHIRREFFS: BOBBY FRANKEL ‘CARED FOR HIS HORSES’ • JIMMY BOUNCER DRAWS WELL FOR THE MIDNIGHT LUTE • DOMINGUEZ TO TAKE TRAINING BREAK AFTER 39 YEARS • MASSIVE...

By Mike Henry —- OLDSMAR, FL. – Tampa Bay Downs rings out 2016 with a handicapper’s delight: the 13th edition of the $100,000 Turf Dash Stakes for horses 3-years-old-and-upward going five furlongs on the lawn. A field of 12 is expected to start. The Turf Dash is the ninth...