Barn Notes

By Dan Smith —- LOBO TAKES A DOUBLE SHOT AT A FIRST DEL MAR STAKES VICTORY Trainer Paulo Lobo will be represented by a quarter of the field when he saddles two South American imports in Saturday’s Grade II $200,000 Yellow Ribbon Stakes for older fillies and mares at 1 1/16...

By Bailey Gallison —- • Oscar Performance Tuning Up for Secretariat • Botti Prepares Fanciful Angel for Million Bid • Permian Probable For Secretariat Bid OSCAR PERFORMANCE TUNING UP FOR SECRETARIAT Amerman Racing LLC’s homebred Oscar Performance worked Monday at Belmont...

NYRA RELEASE —- Javier Castellano; NYRA Photo • Javier Castellano joins the immortals in Friday’s Hall of Fame induction • Breaking Lucky settled in at Saratoga ahead of G1 Whitney • Classic Empire might breeze this weekend • Mohaymen returns to dirt, cross-entered in...

By John Heims —- STEPHENS HAS PAIR ENTERED IN SATURDAY’S COLLEEN STAKES Trainer John Stephens has a pair of two-year-old fillies, City Success and Brexit Revenge, entered for their first try in stakes action when they take on seven others in Saturday’s $60,000 Colleen...

By Dan Smith —- NINE SET FOR SUNDAY’S LA JOLLA HANDICAP Nine three-year-old males were entered Thursday for Sunday’s Grade III $150,000 La Jolla Handicap, the second leg of the summer meeting’s three-race series for sophomore runners on turf. Two of nine, Paymaster Racing’s...

By Amy Gregory —- 2017 Keeneland September Sale Catalog Available Aug. 8; September Sale Bonus Program Expanded to Include Entire Sale September Sale format revised; Book 1 session to begin at 3 p.m. Sept. 11 LEXINGTON, KY (Aug. 2, 2017) – Keeneland today announced the...