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NYRA PRESS RELEASE —- Catholic Boy; Coglianese/Susie Raisher Photo ELMONT, N.Y. – Grade 1-winners Catholic Boy and Glorious Empire headline a competitive field of eight in Monday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Knickerbocker for 3-year-olds and upward going 1 1/8 miles over...

By Amy Owens —- Brown Trio Headlines Field of Nine for Saturday’s Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Presented by Lane’s End LEXINGTON, KY (Oct. 9, 2019) – OXO Equine’s Cambier Parc, winner of the Del Mar Oaks (G1) Presented by The Jockey Club in her most recent start, tops a...

By Mike Willman —- ALEXANDER’S HOMEBRED S Y SKY ASSIGNED HIGH WEIGHT OF 126 LBS. & HEADS SATURDAY’S $100,000 CALIFORNIA DISTAFF AT 5 ½ FURLONGS ON TURF ARCADIA, Calif. (Oct. 9, 2019)—Never worse than third in 15 starts, Nick Alexander’s brilliant homebred S Y Sky heads...

By Jim Gluckson —- SUPER MARE ENABLE GOES FOR THIRD QATAR PRIX DE L’ARC DE TRIOMPHE SUNDAY HEADLINING FIVE BREEDERS’ CUP CHALLENGE RACES AT PARIS LONGCHAMP Paris Longchamp, Paris, France (October 4, 2019) – On Sunday, October 6, Paris Longchamp racecourse will host five...

By Brian Bohl —- ELMONT, N.Y. – A talented seven-horse field of juveniles will look to add their names to the impressive list of past winners of the Grade 1, $500,000 Champagne on Saturday at Belmont Park. One of five stakes on the packed 11-race Joe Hirsch Turf...

By Amy Owens —- Defending Champion Blue Prize (ARG) Faces Four Rivals in Sunday’s $500,000 Juddmonte Spinster LEXINGTON, KY (Oct. 3, 2019) – Merriebelle Stable’s Blue Prize (ARG), who scored her biggest US. victory here last fall in the Juddmonte Spinster (G1), will face...

By Brian Bohl —- ELMONT, N.Y. – Quality Response will look to extend her winning West Coast ways into her first graded stakes contest, shipping her 2-for-2 record to New York as part of a seven-horse field in the Grade 1, $400,000 Frizette for juvenile fillies on...

By Najja Thompson —- ELMONT, N.Y. – Multiple graded stakes winner Hawkish, who missed his summer campaign due to throat surgery, is set to make his return to the races on Saturday facing a field of seven in the $150,000 Belmont Turf Sprint Invitational at Belmont...

NYRA PRESS OFFICE —- Sistercharlie; Coady Photography ELMONT, N.Y. – Trainer Chad Brown’s Sistercharlie will look to add another Grade 1 victory to her robust resume on Sunday at Belmont Park when she contests the $500,000 Flower Bowl Invitational for fillies...

By Ryan Martin —- Channel Maker; Elsa Lorieul Photo ELMONT, N.Y. – Wachtel Stables, R. A. Hill Stables, Gary Barber and Reeves Thoroughbred Racing’s Channel Maker will attempt to repeat his 2018 victory when taking on a field of seven assembled for...