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By Darren Rogers —- Dale Romans; Anne M. Eberhardt Photo ROMANS, JONES LOOK TO FUTURE WITH KENTUCKY JOCKEY CLUB PROBABLE TIZ MISCHIEF LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Sunday, Nov. 19, 2017) – Trainer Dale Romans has always described long-term owner Frank Jones Jr. as a “father figure” and...

By Heather Pettinger —- Miss Sky Warrior back at the Big A for G3 Comely on Black Friday OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Arlene’s Sun Star Stable’s Miss Sky Warrior will get back to the site of some of her biggest victories in the Grade 3, $250,000 Comely for...

By Darren Rogers —- Field of Nine Entered for 143rd Running of Highlight of Popular ‘Black Friday’ Racing Program LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Sunday, Nov. 19, 2017) – Churchill Downs-based rising stars The Player and Honorable Duty are set to bid for glory over their home track, but...

NYRA RELEASE —- Brown to saddle three contenders in Winter Memories OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Chalk Racing’s Ready for Rye will again make the switch from turf to dirt in the Grade 3, $200,000 Fall Highweight on Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, at Aqueduct Racetrack. For...

DMTC News – From the Wire —- RED CARPET COULD BE PLACE FOR PERUVIAN IMPORT TO STRUT On June 25th at the Hipodromo de Monterrico race track in Lima, Peru, Birdie Gold, a five-year-old Kentucky-bred daughter of Birdstone, won the Grade I Classico Pamplona. Thereby...

By Brian W. Spencer —- Thursday’s 93rd running of the $75,000 Thanksgiving Handicap features a well-balanced septet of sprinters looking to feast on the first open stakes of Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots’ 2017-18 meet. Over six furlongs on the main track, the...

By Darren Rogers —- HOPPERTUNITY SET TO ATTEMPT REPEAT BID IN NEXT SATURDAY’S GRADE I, $500,000 CLARK HANDICAP LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Saturday, Nov. 18, 2017) – Mike Pegram, Karl Watson, and Paul Weitman’s Hoppertunity hopes to duplicate his effort from 2014 and become only the...

DMTC News – From the Wire —- MILLER SEEKS GRANT THREE-PEAT WITH SOLID WAGER PLUS TWO Trainer Peter Miller is quite sure that he has never before won the same stakes race with the same horse three years in a row. “I don’t think I’ve ever won three games of tic-tac-toe...

By Michael Adolphson —- • Chublicious Could Chow Down in Thanksgiving • Geroux Geared Up for Riding Title Defense • Jenda’s Agenda Back in Training • Yockey’s Warrior After a Second Helping in Thanksgiving CHUBLICIOUS COULD CHOW DOWN IN THANKSGIVING Graded stakes-winning...