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By Brian Bohl —- SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Stonestreet Stables’ Twilight Gleaming made an impression across multiple continents as a 2-year-old last year, culminating with a victory in the Grade 2 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint, and will make her Saratoga Race Course...

By Mary Eddy —- Trio of Pletcher fillies headline $135K Wilton SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher will send out three graded stakes-placed fillies to try and capture the inaugural running of the $135,000 Wilton, a one-mile test for sophomore fillies...

By Mike Willman —- MULTIPLE STAKES WINNING NEWGRANGE TOPS SATURDAY’S GRADE III, $100,000 AFFIRMED STAKES AT 1 1/16 MILES ARCADIA, Calif. (June 8, 2022)—A two-time graded stakes winner, trainer Tim Yakteen’s Newgrange heads an evenly matched group of six sophomores going a...

By Michael Adolphson ELMONT, N.Y. – After making the competition blush in her stateside debut, Rougir returns in Friday’s featured Grade 1, $750,000 New York, a 10-furlong inner turf test for older fillies and mares at Belmont Park. Four-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer...

By Keith McCalmont —- ELMONT, N.Y. – John C. Oxley’s Devious Dame leads a promising field of six juvenile fillies in Thursday’s $150,000 Astoria, a 5 1/2-furlong sprint at Belmont Park. Thursday’s card lifts the curtain on the three-day Belmont Stakes Racing Festival which...

By Mike Willman —- KMN RACING’S SMUGGLER’S RUN HEADS SATURDAY’S $150,000 SNOW CHIEF STAKES FOR 3-YEAR-OLDS AT 1 1/8 MILES ON TURF PRESENTED BY CITY NATIONAL BANK, RACE IS PART OF CTBA SPONSORED GOLDEN STATE SERIES ON CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH DAY ARCADIA, Calif. (May 2...

By Keith McCalmont —- ELMONT, N.Y. – Trainer Christophe Clement will saddle a trio of formidable contenders in Derrynane, Breeze Easy and Anador in Saturday’s Grade 3, $100,000 Soaring Softly, a seven-furlong sprint for sophomore fillies over the Widener turf, at Belmont...

By David Joseph —- Luna Belle Carries Late Breeder’s Legacy to Black-Eyed Susan (G2) ‘I Think of Him Every Race:’ Daughter Deborah Says of Fred Greene Jr. BALTIMORE – Of all the pictures on Deborah Greene’s phone, there’s one that holds the most special of meanings. Taken...

Grade I1 1/4mDirt $3,000,0003 yo6:57 PM (local) PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L 1 1Mo Donegal (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Irad Ortiz, Jr. 126 Todd A. Pletcher 10/1 2 2Happy Jack (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Rafael Bejarano 126 Doug F. O’Neill 30/1 3 3Epicenter...

By Mike Willman —- STREAKING EXPRESS TRAIN LOOMS A STANDOUT IN SATURDAY’S GRADE II, $200,000 CALIFORNIAN STAKES AS 3-YEAR-OLDS & UP GO 1 1/8 MILES CALIFORNIAN IS AN ICONIC PREP TO GRADE I HOLLYWOOD GOLD CUP ON MAY 30 ARCADIA, Calif. (April 27, 2022)—In search of his...