Yes, the beloved Saratoga meeting is ending, always a downer for dedicated horseplayers. But do not despair, my fellow parimutuel warriors, because Kentucky Downs is coming to your rescue and usracing.com is on your side. High-stakes action is the attraction at the country track once known as Duel...
Emerging 2-Year-Old Talents Trained by Legends Set to Shine in $200,000 Saratoga Special (G2) Ahead of Kentucky Derby Journey A trio of 2-year-olds trained by Hall of Famers could be taking an early step onto the long road to the Kentucky Derby in Saturday’s $200,000 Saratoga Special (G2). The 6 1...
Legendary Fourstardave and the Prestigious Fourstardave Handicap: A Storied Legacy at Saratoga Race Course Fourstardave is a Saratoga legend, a throwback thoroughbred who raced and raced and raced, 100 starts over eight years that included at least one victory at the Spa every summer of his racing c...
Stakes Racing Revival: Colonial Downs Hosts Prestigious CDI-owned Races on Turf The new home of the Arlington Million (G1) is ready for the biggest racing day in state history – the state of Virginia, not Kentucky, and certainly not Illinois. The lowdown: Arlington Park outside Chicago was shutter...
Thanks, babe. Rick Dutrow, Jr. is back in the winner’s circle in a big way. With his signature “Thanks, babe,’’ following an interview after the trainer sent out White Abarrio to an upset of Cody’s Wish in the $1 million Whitney (G1) at Saratoga on Saturday, Dutrow is ready for an extra sp...
Scott Zeron, harness racing’s newest “Money Man,” banked his third Hambletonian driving victory Saturday as Tactical Approach slipped through on the rail to win the $1 million trotting stakes by one length in a 12-1 upset. Zeron, only 34, is rapidly climbing the Hambletonian ladder. Hall of Fa...
Two strides from triumph, tragedy struck at Saratoga Race Course on Saturday when the popular filly Maple Leaf Mel sustained a catastrophic injury in the $500,000 Test Stakes (G1) in front of a horrified crowd on Whitney Day. Maple Leaf Mel, trained by Melanie Giddings, had outclassed her rivals and...
Maple Leaf Mel is set to step to the top of the class and so is her trainer, Melanie Giddings. Undefeated in five career starts, Maple Leaf Mel makes her Grade 1 debut in the $500,000 Test Stakes at Saratoga on Saturday. Giddings, meanwhile, began her own training career less than a year ago, and [&...
Five talented distaffers -- all already graded stakes winners -- seeking a secured spot in the $2 million Longines Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1) gate in just more than three months will square off in Sunday’s $300,000 Clement L. Hirsch Stakes (G1) at Del Mar, the seaside oval’s second “Win and ...
Dominant success sows seeds of outsized expectations. Trainer Ron Burke probably realizes that more than anyone in harness racing heading into the $1 million Hambletonian Saturday at The Meadowlands Racetrack. It is the one prize that has frustratingly slipped through his hands. The Hambletonian is ...
Cody’s Wish is a dream-come-true horse for everyone around him, particularly for 17-year-old Cody Dorman. The teenager was born with the rare genetic disorder Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome and is unable to walk or speak. On a visit with his family to Gainsborough Farm in Versailles, Kentucky, about fou...
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