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By David Joseph —- Bye Bye Melvin, English Bee Top $250,000 Dinner Party (G2) 120th Year for Saturday Turf Stakes, Oldest Stakes Race at Pimlico BALTIMORE – Grade 3-winning stable mates Bye Bye Melvin and English Bee will take on the imposing pair of Kuramata and Grade...

By David Joseph —- Big Test’ for Street Lute in $150,000 Miss Preakness (G3) Among Six Stakes, Four Graded, Worth $1 Million in Purses BALTIMORE – Lucky 7 Stables’ Street Lute, already a six-time stakes winner from just nine starts, will make the jump to graded-stakes...

By David Joseph —- Harpers First Ride Returns for $250,000 Pimlico Special (G3) Shares Spotlight with $250,000 Black-Eyed Susan (G2) May 14 Among Six Stakes, Four Graded, Worth $1 Million in Purses BALTIMORE – His owner, trainer and jockey will be different, but the scenery...

By David Joseph —- May 10, 2021 Adventuring, Miss Leslie Seeks Graded Win in Black-Eyed Susan (G2) 97th Running of 3-Year-Old Filly Stakes Tops Friday, May 14 Program BALTIMORE – Godolphin homebred Adventuring, riding a two-race win streak for reigning Eclipse Award-winning...

By Brian Bohl —- Veteran stakes-winners comprise salty G3 Vagrancy field ELMONT, N.Y. – A field of seven fillies and mares 4-years-old and up will look to boost their respective stakes-winning resumes in Saturday’s Grade 3, $150,000 Vagrancy contested at 6 1/2 furlongs on...

By Mike Willman —- MANDELLA’S TAPWATER HEADS SATURDAY’S GRADE III, $100,000 SANTA BARBARA STAKES AS EIGHT DISTAFFERS GO 1 ½ MILES ON TURF ARCADIA, Calif. (May 5, 2021)—LNJ Foxwoods’ Tapwater heads a field of eight fillies and mares going a marathon mile and one half...

By Ryan Martin —- ELMONT, N.Y. – Michael B. Tabor, Mrs. John Magnier and Derrick Smith’s Group 1-winner Sovereign will make his first start in North America against a competitive field which includes four other graded/grouped stakes winners in Saturday’s 63rd running of the...

Gary Yunt/Kentucky Derby Notes Team Captain CHAMPION ESSENTIAL QUALITY 2-1 MORNING LINE FAVORITE FOR 147TH KENTUCKY DERBY LOUISVILLE, KY (Tuesday, April 27, 2021) – Godolphin’s undefeated homebred Essential Quality has been installed as the 2-1 morning line favorite in a field of...

By Gary Yunt —- LOUISVILLE, KY (Monday, April 26, 2021) – Shadwell Stable’s undefeated Malathaat has been installed as the 5-2 morning line favorite in a field of 14 3-year-old fillies entered Monday for the 147th running of the $1,250,000 Longines Kentucky Oaks (GI) to be...

By Mike Willman —- PETRUCHIO RETURNS TO TURF & HEADS SUNDAY’S $100,000 SINGLETARY STAKES AS THREE-YEAR-OLDS GO ONE MILE ON TURF ARCADIA, Calif. (April 22, 2021)—A graded stakes-placed runner on dirt and a winner on turf, Richard Mandella’s Petruchio returns to what may...