Adios Pace Elims Test Pacers; Saratoga Hosts Top Stake; Kids Cram Kindergartens

Thu Jul 21 2016TwinSpires Staff

The next rung on the ladder of glamour-boy pacer stakes is the Adios Pace on July 23 when two eliminations will decide the final’s field at the home of the Pace for the Orchids, the Meadows. Also on Saturday, Saratoga’s main feature of its meet, the ...
‘Zweig’ Splits Carry Weight In The Late-July Stretch

Thu Jul 21 2016TwinSpires Staff

The Dr. Harry M. Zweig Memorial will be presented in its annual miles, one for colts and one for filles, at Vernon Downs on Sunday, July 24. The traditional event that was raced in New York for decades but was once the event for glamour-boy-and-girl ...
Questions abound as 153rd summer at Saratoga commences

Wed Jul 20 2016TwinSpires Staff

by TERESA GENARO On Friday at 1 p.m. (EDT), the 153rd summer of racing at Saratoga gets underway. Forty racing days of classy Thoroughbreds, champion trainers, and Hall of Fame jockeys will include 37 stakes races, 18 of them Grade 1, and a tota ...
Six entered against California Chrome in San Diego Handicap

Wed Jul 20 2016Jen Caldwell

California Chrome returns to competition on Saturday against six rivals as the 126-pound highweight for the $200,000 San Diego Handicap (G2) at Del Mar. The popular chestnut made a name for himself when romping through the 2014 Triple Crown sea ...
Miss Temple City faces Brown quartet plus five in contentious Diana

Wed Jul 20 2016Vance Hanson

Even though superstar Tepin is sitting this one out, Saturday's $500,00 Diana (G1) at Saratoga has still come up a corker of a race. Chad Brown has four of the 10 fillies and mares in the 1 1/8-mile grass feature and Todd Pletcher saddles two, b ...
Postponed to miss King George title defense

Wed Jul 20 2016Vance Hanson

Trainer Roger Varian reported on his website Wednesday that Postponed, a hot favorite to repeat in Saturday's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth at Ascot, would miss the prestigious Group 1 due to a respiratory infection. According to a statement, ...

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Two-year-olds enter the spotlight

Wed Jul 20 2016Ted Black

While the three-year-old stakes are just getting into full swing among the standardbreds, those harness racing fans who enjoy following the two-year-olds have been treated to ample stellar efforts over the past four days. Some of the juveniles could ...
Big Weekend On Tap at Ruidoso Downs

Wed Jul 20 2016

Valiant Rogue returns to action Saturday afternoon in the $1.2 million Rainbow Derby at Ruidoso Downs The talented filly Boxwineizfine, ran fourth in the $160,000 West Texas Derby in March at Sunland Park. She will break from post position ten ...
California Chrome, Songbird bring plenty of juice to upcoming weekend

Tue Jul 19 2016James Scully

Numbers were up for Del Mar’s opening weekend and Saratoga kicks off its highly-anticipated meet Friday. Fans would be excited regardless of participants in this weekend’s stakes races, but the presence of California Chrome at Del Mar and Songbird at ...
Ancient Secret looks to remain unbeaten in Lake George

Tue Jul 19 2016Vance Hanson

As can be expected multiple times throughout the 40-day Saratoga meet that begins Friday, trainer Chad Brown holds a solid hand entering the $200,000 Lake George (G2) , a 1 1/16-mile test on the Mellon Turf for three-year-old fillies that highlights ...
Anticipation high for California Chrome's return in San Diego

Tue Jul 19 2016TwinSpires Staff

by SCOTT SHAPIRO The second week of the Del Mar summer meeting commences on Wednesday afternoon, but all eyes are on Saturday's San Diego H. (G2) and the return of 2014 Horse of the Year California Chrome. The extremely popular California-bred ...
Meadowlands featured the cream of the crop

Tue Jul 19 2016Ted Black

Last Saturday night's stellar card at The Meadowlands in New Jersey allowed fans and horsemen alike to witness the best trotters and pacers in the land compete in numerous stakes races and many of the current division leaders ascended to the head of ...
Saratoga Jockey Preview

Mon Jul 18 2016D.S. Williamson

The 2016 Saratoga Meet starts this Friday, July 22. Although a Triple Crown winner won't run in the Travers Stakes this year, a three-year-old superstar will run at Saratoga. That superstar is West Coast filly Songbird who is scheduled to run in both ...