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NYRA RELEASE —- Three Breeders’ Cup qualifiers lead key day of racing on Saturday, September 29 ELMONT, N.Y. – New York-bred star Diversify tops a competitive group of 14 nominees released on Sunday as he looks to defend his title in the Grade 1, $750,000 Jockey...

By Tom Luicci —- SIX ALL-TURF RACES HIGHLIGHT SATURDAY’S OPENING CARD AS MONMOUTH-AT-MEADOWLANDS MEET GETS UNDERWAY A field of nine Jersey-breds will go a mile and a sixteenth in the featured $35,000 allowance on Saturday night as the all-turf Monmouth-at-Meadowlands meet...

By David Joseph —- Multiple Stakes Winner Phlash Phelps Targeting Laurel Stakes Sept. 29 G3 BWI Turf Cup, Find Stakes Possible Preps for Maryland Million Turf LAUREL, MD – Both the $200,000 Baltimore-Washington International Turf Cup (G3) and $75,000 Find Stakes Saturday,...

NYRA RELEASE —- OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The 38-day fall meet at Aqueduct Racetrack will feature 12 graded stakes, highlighted by the Grade 1, $750,000 Cigar Mile Handicap. The meet, which starts Friday, November 2 and closes on New Year’s Eve, will offer 35 total...

By Bailey Gallison —- 35 PRE-ENTERED IN GRADE I ARLINGTON MILLION XXXVI, BEVERLY D. AND SECRETARIAT STAKES ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (Aug. 3, 2018) – Pre-entries for the three Grade I stakes highlighting the International Festival of Racing on Saturday, Aug. 11 were taken...

NYRA RELEASE —- Enhanced screening protocols to be in place on Whitney Day; Breakfast and tram tour hours slightly modified SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The 91st running of the prestigious Grade 1, $1.2 million Whitney, one of North America’s premier races, will...

By Tom Luicci —- REMEMBERING RITA READY TO TAKE ON NEXT TEST IN SUNDAY’S $150,000 GRADE 3 MONMOUTH CUP OCEANPORT, N.J. – Trainer Doug Anderson said he was simply looking for a young horse with some potential when he claimed Remembering Rita for owner Jeral Keith Adams for...

By David Joseph —- 20-cent Rainbow 6 Could Reach $500,000 HALLANDALE BEACH – There’s going to be approximately a half million reasons to play Gulfstream Park’s 20-cent Rainbow 6 Thursday afternoon. Unsolved for 10 consecutive racing days, the 20-cent wager has a carryover...

NYRA RELEASE —- 40-day summer meet features 69 stakes races with nearly $19 million in purses SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Live thoroughbred racing will return to historic Saratoga Race Course on Friday, July 20 for its premier 40-day summer meet. The 2018 meet includes...

By Tom Luicci —- JUVENILE CHAMPION GOOD MAGIC HEADS LIST OF 44 HORSES INVITED TO HASKELL INVITATIONAL ON JULY 29 AT MONMOUTH OCEANPORT, N.J. – Forty-four 3-year-olds were extended invitations Friday to the $1 million betfair.com Haskell Invitational on Sunday, July 29, at...