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By David Joseph —- Perfect Irish War Cry Favored in $400,000 Fountain of Youth (G2) Multiple Grade 1 Winner Practical Joke Among Rivals in Competitive Field of 11 Richest of Nine Stakes, Eight Graded, Worth $1.5 Million in Purses HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Undefeated through...

By Michael Adolphson —- NEW ORLEANS – Fat Tuesday at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots features an intriguing renewal of the $75,000 Mardi Gras Stakes. At 5½ furlongs over the Stall-Wilson turf course and restricted to fillies and mares, the 2017 edition features the...

By Brian Bohl —- OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Yorkiepoo Princess will go for a third consecutive stakes win in leading a field of 10 in the 38th running of the $150,000 Busher for 3-year-old fillies at 1 1/16 miles on the inner dirt track on Saturday at Aqueduct Racetrack...

By Mike Willman —- BETTYS BAMBINO, COMEBACKING AMBITIOUS BREW & RICHARD’S BOY HEAD SATURDAY’S $100,000 SENSATIONAL STAR STAKES AT 6 ½ FURLONGS DOWN HILLSIDE TURF RACE IS PART OF LUCRATIVE GOLDEN STATE SERIES FOR CALIFORNIA-BRED OR SIRED HORSES ARCADIA, Calif. (Feb. 22,...

By Michael Adolphson —- NEW ORLEANS – The Grade II $200,000 Rachel Alexandra Stakes has become a vital prep for not only the Grade II $400,000 Fair Grounds Oaks five weeks later over the same Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots main track and 1 1/16-miles distance, but...

By Heather Pettinger —- OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Leonard C. Green’s Even Thunder will get back to the site of his most recent stakes score as he takes on four rivals in the 33rd running of the $100,000 Jimmy Winkfield for 3-year-olds at six furlongs on Monday’s...

By Mike Willman —- COMEBACKING SUNDAY RULES HEADS SUNDAY’S $100,000 SPRING FEVER HANDICAP FOR CALIFORNIA-BRED OR SIRED FILLIES & MARES AT SIX FURLONGS STATE-BRED FEATURE TO HIGHLIGHT 10-RACE CARD ON SUNDAY AT SANTA ANITA ARCADIA, Calif. (Feb. 16, 2017)—Idle since July...

By Brian Bohl/Najja Thompson —- OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Toni Tools will look to continue her success in stakes races in headlining a 10-horse field in the third running of the $100,000 Franklin Square for New York-bred 3-year-old fillies at six furlongs on the inner dirt...

By Mike Willman —- MOKAT, PRIZE EXHIBIT, HILLHOUSE HIGH & WILD AT HEART ALL PROMINENT IN WIDE OPEN GRADE II, $200,000 BUENA VISTA STAKES ON SATURDAY; FIELD OF 11 OLDER DISTAFFERS TO CONTEST FLAT MILE ON TURF ARCADIA, Calif. (Feb. 15, 2017)—A wide open field of 11 older...

By Mike Henry —- OLDSMAR, FL. – Todd Pletcher tackled the (now)-Grade III Sam F. Davis Stakes for the first time in 2000 with Impeachment, when Tampa Bay Downs raised the purse money for the race from $25,000-added to $40,000-guaranteed. The winner, trainer Ken McPeek’s Go...