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Owner Jordan Wycoff was victorious with his only two entrants on Saturday's Claiming Crown card, executing a similar strategy with both favored winners. Each had met their respective starter-allowance eligibility conditions by only once having raced at or below the required minimum claiming price. And both recently had been running against tough competition on the

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Joseph “Kevin” Costello of Downers Grove, Ill. bested a total of 127 entries to take home the top prize in the National Horseplayers Championship (NHC) Qualifier held Saturday at Horseshoe Indianapolis. Costello hit the Pick 6 at Gulfstream Park that placed him over the top for the top prize money of $3,000. Costello had already

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Crunched into 4-5 favoritism in the late stages, PROGRAM TRADING (GB) (r, 3, Lope de Vega {Ire}–Dreamlike {GB}, by Oasis Dream {GB}) got first run on his chief market rival Webslinger (Constitution) with a quarter-m...

Crunched into 4-5 favoritism in the late stages, PROGRAM TRADING (GB) (r, 3, Lope de Vega {Ire}–Dreamlike {GB}, by Oasis Dream {GB}) got first run on his chief market rival Webslinger (Constitution) with a quarter-m...

Crunched into 4-5 favoritism in the late stages, PROGRAM TRADING (GB) (r, 3, Lope de Vega {Ire}–Dreamlike {GB}, by Oasis Dream {GB}) got first run on his chief market rival Webslinger (Constitution) with a quarter-m...

Crunched into 4-5 favoritism in the late stages, PROGRAM TRADING (GB) (r, 3, Lope de Vega {Ire}–Dreamlike {GB}, by Oasis Dream {GB}) got first run on his chief market rival Webslinger (Constitution) with a quarter-m...

His chances having been boosted by the way the muddy Aqueduct main track was carrying speed, HOIST THE GOLD (c, 4, Mineshaft–Tacit Approval, by Tapit) proved the speediest of the speeds signed on for Saturday's GII Cigar ...

In a race that didn't really deserve a loser, DORNOCH (c, 2, Good Magic–Puca, by Big Brown), all but a beaten horse in the final furlong of Saturday's GII Remsen S., dug down doggedly and fought back inside of 'TDN Rising Star' Sierra Leone (

Dropping out of a pair of Grade I races, Repole Stables and Todd Pletcher's Life Talk (Gun Runner) earned 10 points on the Road to the Kentucky Oaks with an impressive win in the GII Demoiselle S. Second by a head to future GISP Alys Beach (Omaha Beach) on debut, Life Talk came back with

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Dropping out of a pair of Grade I races, Repole Stables and Todd Pletcher's Life Talk (Gun Runner) earned 10 points on the Road to the Kentucky Oaks with an impressive win in the GII Demoiselle S. Second by a head to future GISP Alys Beach (Omaha Beach) on debut, Life Talk came back with

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Stop us if you've heard this a time or a thousand. Horses trained by Chad Brown figure tough in the GI Matriarch S. on closing day of the Bing Crosby Meet at Del Mar. Undisputable though that is–he has, after all, sent out the winner all but once since 2017–Harris Farms homebred Closing Remarks (Vronsky)

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'TDN Rising Star' My Prankster (Into Mischief) has been sold and will stand the 2024 breeding season at O'Sullivan Farms, located in Charles Town, WV. A $600,000 purchase for Robert & Lawana Low at the Fasig-Tipton Select Yearling Showcase in 2020, My Prankster was trained by Todd Pletcher and broke his maiden by ten lengths

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Mike Luzzi, the Eclipse Award winning apprentice jockey of 1989 and a winner of more than 3,500 races has retired from racing and become the agent for his son Lane, who has been based at Aqueduct since October. “It was his idea,” said Luzzi said of becoming his son's agent. “Reluctantly, I'm going to finish

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Chilly on the board at 13-1 from a morning line of 6-1, P and G Stable's EL CAPI (c, 2, Maclean's Music–Nightlife Baby, by Flatter) ran them off their feet in Saturday's second race at Aqueduct to open his account in impressive fashion at first asking. Bustled away from the inside gate by Jose ...

Ronald “Ronnie” C. Cartwright, a Maryland-based trainer who conditioned multiple graded-stakes winners throughout his career, passed away Nov. 11 at the age of 93. A steeplechase jockey who then trained from the late 1960's through 2005, Cartwright won almost 700 races and his horses earned more than $13 million. His graded-stakes winners included Mz. Zill

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With the team at Juddmonte still “floating on air” after a pair of wins on Breeders' Cup Saturday, the blue-blooded Mullion (c, 3, Into Mischief–Brooch, by Empire Maker) added to a banner weekend for the international operation with a 'TDN Rising Star' performance at Churchill Downs Nov. 5. Sidelined for more than 14 months following

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The late Charlie Whittingham won his first Hollywood Derby back in 1967 with Tumble Wind and the last of his four victories in the race in 1989 with Live The Dream. Chad Brown added his name to the list of Hollywood Derby winners courtesy of Annals of Time (Temple City) in 2016 and followed up

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A decision may have finally been reached in the long-standing skirmish over the results of the 2018 GI Santa Anita Derby, won by Justify (Scat Daddy), according to a release issued Friday afternoon by the connections of Ruis Racing, who campaigned runner-up Bolt d'Oro (

Over the same surface where her half-brother Corniche (Quality Road) earned GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile stardom en route to Champion 2-year-old colt honors, it was Llorona (

The Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance announced a new partnership with Lexington, Kentucky-based equine feed manufacturer Hallway Feeds, the organization said in a release Friday. Family-owned and operated by the Hall Family since 1964, the company is prepared to make a major financial commitment to accredited Thoroughbred aftercare through this collaboration. Select Hallway Feeds bags will proud...