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By Mike Willman —- GRADE I WINNER UNION STRIKE TAKES ON SIX RIVALS IN SUNDAY’S $75,000 SANTA PAULA STAKES AT 6 ½ FURLONGS ARCADIA, Calif. (April 6, 2017)—Originally entered to run in Saturday’s Grade III Providencia Stakes on turf, the Mick Ruis-owned and trained Union...

NYRA PRESS RELEASE —- Turf racing returns Sunday with Danger’s Hour OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Phipps Stable’s homebred Carrumba, winner of the 2016 Grade 3 Top Flight Handicap, is set to make her first start since last summer, topping a field of six in...

By Heather Pettinger —- OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Grade 3 Gulfstream Park Sprint winner Unified will face the biggest test of his career in the 117th running of the Grade 1, $400,000 Carter Handicap for 4-year-olds and up at seven furlongs on Saturday at Aqueduct Racetrack....

By Mike Willman —- ABEL TASMAN Zoe Metz Photography ABEL TASMAN, IT TIZ WELL & PARADISE WOODS HEAD GRADE I, $400,000 SANTA ANITA OAKS AT 1 1/16 MILES ON SATURDAY ARCADIA, Calif. (April 5, 2017)—Highly accomplished Abel Tasman and It Tiz Well, along with upstart...

By Lynne Snierson —- OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Miss Sky Warrior looks for her fifth straight win, fourth consecutive stakes score and third Grade 2 victory in a row when she takes on eight other promising 3-year-old fillies in the 122nd running of the $300,000 Gazelle Stakes...

By Mike Willman —- ILIAD Zoe Metz Photography ILIAD, GORMLEY, REACH THE WORLD & AMERICAN ANTHEM ALL PROMINENT AMONG FIELD OF 13 IN SATURDAY’S GRADE I, $1 MILLION SANTA ANITA DERBY O’NEILL ENTERS FOUR WHILE BAFFERT HAS THREE IN PREMIER SHOWDOWN; TOTAL OF 170 KENTUCKY...

NYRA RELEASE —- The 93rd RUNNING OF THE WOOD MEMORIAL PRESENTED BY NYRA BETS Grade 2 TOTAL: $750,000 Distance – 1 1/8 miles Winner: $400,000 Track Record – Riva Ridge (1973) 1:47; stakes record – Bellamy Road (2005) 1:47.16 Second: $140,000 Last...

By Mike Willman —- CLASSY HARMONIZE HEADS GRADE II, $200,000 ROYAL HEROINE STAKES SATURDAY AT SANTA ANITA; PRETTY GIRL, SWEET CHARITY & LADY VALEUR ALL IN GOOD FORM AS FIELD OF EIGHT OLDER DISTAFFERS GO ONE MILE ON TURF ARCADIA, Calif. (April 5, 2017)—Trainer Bi...

By Brian Bohl —- OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Winning Move Stable’s Tu Brutus will make his first start on North American soil as part of a field of seven 4-year-olds and up in the Grade 3, $150,000 Excelsior on Saturday, Wood Memorial Day, at Aqueduct Racetrack. Tu...

By Brian Bohl —- OZONE PARK, N.Y. – William Schettine’s Isabelle proved she could handle stakes competition with two wins in her last three starts. She now will see if that success translates to a higher level in headlining a field of six fillies and mares...