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Whitney features seven Grade 1 winners

Wed Aug 05 2015James Scully

Metropolitan H. (G1) winner Honor Code has been installed as the slight 3-1 morning line favorite in a deep rendition of Saturday’s $1.25 million Whitney (G1) at Saratoga. The 10-horse field also features Grade 1 winners Lea, Moreno, Noble Bird, ...
Trotters Poised To Race Into History In Hambletonian And ‘Oaks’

Wed Aug 05 2015TwinSpires Staff

The traditional, original format of the Hambletonian, presenting elimination heats and a final, allows the classic event to dominate a stupendous program of racing on Aug. 8. The elims decide the final’s field and the winner of the final is the champ ...
Governor's Day offers solid local flavor

Wed Aug 05 2015Ted Black

Last Thursday evening Harrington Raceway in southern Delaware kicked off the weekend festivities a day early when it hosted the annual Governor's Day program, highlighted by a 13-race card worth in excess of $600,000 and a brief visit from Jack Marke ...
Top 2015 Quarter Horse Jockeys

Tue Aug 04 2015

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Travers moves to the fore for American Pharoah’s next start

Tue Aug 04 2015James Scully

The guessing game started the moment he finished dominating the competition in Sunday’s Haskell (G1) – where will American Pharoah run next? In the last 48 hours, owner Ahmed Zayat provided some insight via Twitter, removing the Pacific Classic (G ...
A.P. Smithwick the latest clash between two champions

Tue Aug 04 2015Vance Hanson

Steeplechasing, like poi, is not for every taste. But more than four decades after it ceased being a staple of day-to-day racing at Aqueduct and Belmont Park, that branch of the sport remains one of the unique charms of racing at Saratoga. That is ...

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Del Mar Notebook - August 4

Tue Aug 04 2015John Mucciolo

A Grade 1 affair headlined the third week at Del Mar Race Course. Clement L. Hirsch S. (G1) : Spendthrift Farm’s BEHOLDER (Henny Hughes) tracked while close, took a shot lead approaching the turn for home and dominated this field with ease, cru ...
Arlington Million Day fields starting to take shape

Mon Aug 03 2015Kellie Reilly

Thanks to the Arlington barn notes, we're getting a firmer idea of the prospective fields for the August 15 Million Day extravaganza. Here are the contenders named in the latest dispatches. The American-based runners are listed first, followed by ...
American Pharoah's exercise rider on what makes the champ special

Mon Aug 03 2015Kellie Reilly

Triple Crown champion American Pharoah was in tip-top shape the morning following his Haskell Invitational (G1) heroics, according to exercise rider Jorge Alvarez. "He came out of the race perfect," Alvarez said. "He looks like he could go out the ...
Upstart to target Travers

Mon Aug 03 2015Vance Hanson

Upstart, third to American Pharoah in Sunday's Haskell Invitational (G1) in his first start since trailing a field of 18 in the Kentucky Derby (G1), will now target the $1 million Travers (G1) at Saratoga on August 29. "He came out of the race gre ...
American Pharoah has nothing more to prove against his peers

Mon Aug 03 2015Vance Hanson

A point emphatically made in June was marvelously belabored at Monmouth Park on Sunday: American Pharoah has nothing more to prove by running in age-restricted events. As expected, that empirical statement hasn't silenced the drumbeat of those arg ...
Dazzling Haskell adds to American Pharoah’s burgeoning legacy

Mon Aug 03 2015James Scully

The stunning ease of American Pharoah’s Haskell Invitational victory elicited a wide range of emotions – the Triple Crown champion was basically out for a seven-furlong workout in the 1 1/8-mile race, with a quarter-mile gallop-out to the finish line ...
Blameitonthelaw states Del Mar Futurity case

Mon Aug 03 2015Kellie Reilly

If Blameitonthelaw goes on to become an absolute star, we'll look back on the pleasing timing of his debut maiden conquest. The John Sadler pupil simply bolted up in a hot-looking 7TH race at Del Mar, a couple of hours after American Pharoah flaunt ...

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