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By Ed Golden —- • NEW OWNERS ‘BONDE’ WITH TRAINER • $465,219 AT THE END OF THE ‘RAINBOW’ • MIKE SMITH WORKS PARADISE WOODS FATHER & SON OWNERS AMONG RACING’S NEW FACES In a game clamoring for new owners, perhaps no one meets the criteria more than John Del Secco and...

By David Joseph —- Field of 14 Entered for Historic $300,000 Pimlico Special (G3) Pletcher Pair Aim to Give Trainer Third Career Special Win Race Marks Return of Tenfold, Third in 2018 Preakness, to Pimlico BALTIMORE – The historic $300,000 Pimlico Special (G3), lengthened...

NYRA PRESS RELEASE —- • Channel Maker in good order following Man o’ War score • Thomas hoping for productive campaign with Catholic Boy and Diversify • Heavenhasmynikki could return to Belmont for next start • Brown impressed with Homerique; eyes stakes assignments...

By David Joseph —- Lukas-Trained Market King Confirmed for Saturday’s Preakness ‘All Systems Go’ for Anothertwistafate for Middle Jewel of Triple Crown Baffert Slated to Reunite with Improbable Monday BALTIMORE, MD – Robert C. Baker and William L. Mack’s colt Market King is...

By David Joseph —- Las Setas Puts Streak on Line in $250,000 Black-Eyed Susan (G2) 95th Running of 3-Year-Old Filly Stakes Tops Friday, May 17 Program BALTIMORE – Having established her local dominance with four straight wins, the last three in stakes, Maryland homebred Las...

NYRA PRESS RELEASE —- Coal Front breezes half-mile for G1 Runhappy Met Mile Schiergen seeking Saturday success saddling Binti Al Nar in G3 Beaugay Aidan O’Brien’s Hunting Horn and Magic Wand in fine fettle for Man o’ War Cassidy hoping for another heroic...

By Ed Golden —- STABLE NOTES BY ED GOLDEN FRIDAY, MAY 10, 2019 ‘FRENCH CONNECTION’ IN SANTA BARBARA VETERAN TRAINER DON WARREN DIES AT 67 PREAKNESS IS NOT ‘IMPROBABLE’ FOR SMITH GOLD AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW: $405,029 VIVA LA FRANCE IN GRADE III SANTA BARBARA The French...

By Tom Luicci —- OCEANPORT, N.J. – Trainer Michelle Nevin said her thought process was pretty basic when it came to shipping in Forever Liesl from New York for Saturday’s $75,000 Serena’s Song, the feature race on Monmouth Park’s 12-race card. “This race came up and she’s...

Kevin Kerstein Publicity Manager Churchill Downs Racetrack —- LOCALLY-BASED PREAKNESS CONTENDERS SET FOR SATURDAY WORKS LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Friday, May 10, 2019) – Trainer Brad Cox’s duo of Lexington Stakes (Grade III) winner Owendale and allowance winner Warrior’s Charge,...