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Alicia Hughes, NTRA Communications —- COUNTRY HOUSE JOINS TOP TEN IN 3-YEAR-OLD POLL; VOTERS PAY TRIBUTE TO BATTLE OF MIDWAY LEXINGTON, Ky. (February 25, 2019) – Support for Risen Star Stakes runner-up Country House and tributes to the late Grade 1 winner Battle of Midway...

By Alicia Hughes/NTRA —- WAR OF WILL MOVES UP 3-YEAR-OLD RANKS; MARLEY’S FREEDOM JOINS TOP TEN IN NTRA POLL LEXINGTON, Ky. (February 19, 2019) – An emphatic victory by War of Will in the Grade 2 Risen Star Stakes at Fair Grounds this past Saturday was enough to elevate the...

By Matt Pappis Tracksideview Staff Writer —- Fair Grounds Pick-4 Post Time 5:25 (4:25) 3:25 2:25 Race 9) Grade III Mineshaft Silver Dust (4): In very good form of late and just out finished in the local prep for this Graded Stakes, he has only finished out of the exacta...

By Pat McKenna & Mark Bardack —- NYRA announces adjustments to 2019 Belmont Park spring/summer and Saratoga Race Course schedules to accommodate potential arena construction at Belmont Park Belmont Park spring/summer meet to run 48 days beginning Friday, April 26...

By Darren Rogers —- Pool 2 Opens Friday and Concludes Sunday at 6 p.m. EDT LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019) – Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert’s Grade I-winning duo of Game Winner and Improbable are the individual morning line favorites in Pool 2 of the Kentucky...

Alicia Hughes/NTRA —- LEXINGTON, Ky. (February 4, 2019) – An open-length victory over sealed, sloppy going in the Grade 3 Robert B. Lewis Stakes February 2 was enough to earn Mucho Gusto a place in the top 10 in this week’s National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA)...