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By David Joseph —- Smile Sprint (G3) Headlines Gulfstream’s Labor Day Weekend Cool Arrow, Double Crown Set to Clash in Six-Furlong Feature HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Labor Day Weekend at Gulfstream Park will be celebrated by seven stakes over three days, headlined by Saturday’...

By Brian Bohl —- SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Dr Post, the runner-up in the Grade 1 Belmont Stakes in June, will make his Saratoga Race Course debut as one of two talented entrants for trainer Todd Pletcher in Saturday’s Grade 2, $150,000 Jim Dandy for sophomores...

By Gary Yunt —- LOUISVILLE, KY (Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020) – A field of 10 top older grass runners will go to post in the 34th running of the $1 million Old Forester Bourbon Turf Classic (GI), one of six graded stakes that will precede Saturday’s 146th running of the $3...

MJC RELEASE —- BALTIMORE, MARYLAND – September 2, 2020 – The Stronach Group and the Maryland Jockey Club, owners of the legendary Preakness Stakes (G1), announced today that Preakness 145 will proceed without fans in attendance on October 3rd at Pimlico Race Cours...

By Kevin Kerstein —- LOUISVILLE, KY (Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020) – Sackatoga Stable’s Tiz the Law, the 3-5 morning line favorite for Saturday’s $3 million Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (GI), made his first on track appearance of Derby Week on a soggy Wednesday...

By Ryan Martin —- SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Juddmonte Farms’ three-time graded stakes winner Tacitus has been Grade 1-placed on four occasions, and will seek his first triumph at such level when he faces a field of five competitors in Saturday’s 67th...

By Gary Yunt —- LOUISVILLE, KY (Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020) – Sackatoga Stable’s Tiz the Law, dominating winner of the Travers (GI) and Belmont Stakes (GI) has been installed as the 3-5 morning line favorite in a field of 18 horses entered for Saturday’s 146th running of the $3...

By Mac McBride —- BEHIND THE MASKS: RIDERS REFLECT ON A DIFFERENT DEL MAR IN 2020 The summer of racing at Del Mar in 2020 has been, to put it mildly, unlike any other. Jockeys, for example, have done their jobs wearing the mandatory accessory of a face mask in addition to...

By Gary Yunt —- LOUISVILLE, KY (Monday, Aug. 31, 2020) – Michael Dubb, Monomoy Stables, The Elkstone Group and Bethlehem Stables’ Monomoy Girl, the champion 3-year-old filly of 2018, headlines of a field of eight for Friday’s 35th running of the $500,000 La Troienne...