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SHOWDOWN

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Notable Speech made quite a statement when winning last year’s $1 million Woodbine Mile on the tight inner turf with a sweeping wide rally, after which he doubled up in the Breeders’ Cup Mile at Del Mar. Last year’s Eclipse...

Los Alamitos Race Course

The Del Mar summer meeting ended on Monday with a flurry of activity for jockey Kazushi Kimura. In the final five racing days, Kimura had mounts in 42 of 49 races. He rode five winners, including the Generous Portion for California-bred 2-year-old...

NYRA considering keeping Belmont at 1 1/4 miles

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The Triple Crown may not be done going through changes. While the general belief is the Belmont Stakes will move back to its traditional 1 1/2-mile distance in 2027 when it returns to Belmont Park, that may not be the case...

Magnitude breezes for BC Classic after Asmussen’s big day

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The morning after winning three races Saturday at Saratoga, two with exciting 2-yearold prospects, trainer Steve Asmussen sent out his stable’s current marquee horse – Magnitude – for his first work in about a month as he steps...

More than 100 people deported to Haiti

For the third consecutive Thursday, the United States deported a group to Haiti. More than 100 people were deported amid gang violence in the country. The flight, which took off from Louisiana, landed in the Haitian city of Cap-Haitien, as the main...

Handal unbothered by short rest for Chummers

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Chummers looks to put the bow on a terrific summer for himself and his trainer Ray Handal when he wheels back on short rest to run in Monday’s $200,000 Gio Ponti Stakes for 3-year-olds at Saratoga. The Gio Ponti, scheduled for...

PROPER SCHOOLING

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Midnight Still got a pretty good education as well as a victory from his first two career starts racing at distances shorter than which he should excel. Sunday, Midnight Still will try to put his lessons to good use when he...

Miss Monica looks to extend Baffert’s Debutante record

DEL MAR, Calif. – The fastest 2-year-old filly in California has her work cut out against a big field Saturday in the Grade 1 Del Mar Debutante – or perhaps it is the other way around. Nine fillies have their work cut out against Miss Monica, whose...

Sentient Soon offers value in Generous Portion

DEL MAR, Calif. – While there are good reasons to back the favorite in the $100,000 Generous Portion Stakes on Friday at Del Mar, an inconspicuous longshot undergoing a crucial equipment change merits consideration at significantly higher...

HOT AND DRY

The weather forecast calls for a hot, dry week at Kentucky Downs, which means the connections of Tawny Port stand a good chance of making it rain after the Bowling Green Gold Cup Invitational on Thursday. Tawny Port likes a dry, firm, fast course, and...

DOUBLE TROUBLE

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – With Jimmy P, the two-time winner of the Grade 1 Jonathan Sheppard Steeplechase at Saratoga, sidelined by injury, Wednesday’s running of the $150,000 Sheppard at 2 3/8 miles appears to be a wide-open affair. Trainer Ricky...

Haitians demand answers for gang violence

Haiti’s National Police are facing mounting criticism over why authorities failed to prevent a recent gang attack in which 47 people were killed and more than 50 kidnapped. The attack happened last Sunday and is believed to be the largest kidnapping in...

COULD BE SPECIAL

Dallas Stewart last trained a turf stakes winner in 2022. Know what it takes to win a turf stakes? A stakes-level turf horse. Those have been few and far between in the Stewart barn. But Seneca Park, among an overflow field of 2-year-old fillies...

STARS COLLIDE

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – A lot has changed in the 50 weeks since Magnitude finished 20 3/4 lengths behind Sovereignty in the Grade 1 Travers Stakes at Saratoga. For Magnitude, it’s been a change for the better. For Sovereignty, not so much. Since that...

SECOND CHANCE

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – For trainer Grant Forster, the delight of watching Faithful Departed run so well outweighed the disappointment of her finishing second in last month’s Grade 1 Belmont Oaks at Saratoga. Shuffled back to last early and then held...

Golden Club stands out in first leg of all-turf pick three

DEL MAR, Calif. – Bettors looking for a sure winner Thursday at Del Mar might heed the whimsical insight of trainer Craig Lewis. Lewis trains Golden Club, a second-start 2-year-old who figures to win race 3, a turf sprint for Cal-bred maidens. Golden...

SITTING PRETTY

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – A pair of Grade 1 winners, Usha and Iron Orchard, will return to statebred company for the first time since their 2-yearold campaigns when facing six other New York-breds on Wednesday at Saratoga in the $200,000 Johnstone, a...

Claude AI hacked three companies

During a test, Anthropic said Claude AI hacked into the systems of three companies after a configuration error gave it internet access. Anthropic said a misconfiguration allowed Claude models to reach the internet from testing environments that were...

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TEXAS TWO-STEP UP

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The race was at Lone Star Park and was restricted to Texasbreds. But when Caroline’s Girl went from eighth to first while six wide in less than an eighth of a mile to win her career debut by 8 1/4 lengths, people took...

BLINKER EXPERIMENT

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Maybe Commandment can be successful at a mile and a quarter, and perhaps he’ll get a chance to prove that at another point in time. But he already has proven himself to be effective at distances shorter than 10 furlongs,...

RIGHT AT HOME

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Between them, Hall of Fame trainers Steve Asmussen and Todd Pletcher have won 10 of the 33 runnings of the Amsterdam Stakes at Saratoga. There’s a pretty good chance one of those two will add another Amsterdam to their trophy...

DISTANCE HELPS

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Gezora went off as the 9-5 favorite and Speed Shopper as an outsider at 12-1 when the pair met for the first time in the Grade 1 New York Stakes at Saratoga over Belmont Stakes weekend. The final odds figure to be a lot closer...

CLASS RELIEF

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – From the day after the June 6 Belmont Stakes, Bill Mott was thinking about running Chief Wallabee in Wednesday’s $150,000 Curlin Stakes at Saratoga and not because the race falls on the Hall of Fame trainer’s 73rd...

Raiders sign top pick Mendoza

Heisman trophy winner and first overall draft pick Fernando Mendoza signed a four-year $57.26 million contract with the Las Vegas Raiders. Mendoza was the last of the Raiders’ 10 draft picks to sign. The Raiders will hold a fifth-year option on the...

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TOUGH BEATS

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Bill Mott has been around long enough to have experienced pretty much everything Thoroughbred racing can throw at someone. But the back-to-back nose defeats suffered by Grand Job in her last two starts stick out as among the...

SUPREME BATTLE

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – If Always a Runner and Counting Stars perform up to their trainer’s expectations, then Saturday’s Grade 1, $500,000 Coaching Club American Oaks should be a fun race and one or the other figures to leave Saratoga Saturday night...

SCOT-FREE

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – With the connections of Nitrogen opting to take on the boys in the Grade 1 Whitney next month, the pair of route stakes for older dirt females at Saratoga this summer should be a bit more competitive. While the Grade 1...

Contenders stretch out in pair of allowances

DEL MAR, Calif. – Horseplayers must solve a pair of sprintto-route riddles Thursday in Del Mar allowance races – fillies and mares on turf, and Californiabred colts and geldings on dirt. Canto Della Terra, an Irishbred filly who scored a sharp...

BROWN BARRAGE

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. − After winning his 11th Diana Stakes at Saratoga and his 10th Matchmaker at Monmouth Park on Saturday, trainer Chad Brown will now set his sights on adding to the grandiose totals of wins he has in a pair of other graded turf...

FDA approves new cholesterol pill

On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration approved a new kind of cholesterol pill from Merck. The daily pill, called Lipfendra, is a cholesterollowering medication that had previously only been available as injections. The pill was approved for...

Lettuce supplier investigated for outbreak

The Food and Drug Administration is investigating an iceberg lettuce supplier in connection to the ongoing cyclosporiasis outbreak. Taylor Farms, which supplies iceberg lettuce to Taco Bell, could be the source of the outbreak. More than 7,000 people...

SHINING STAR

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Luster has been shining leading up to Sunday’s $750,000 Woodbine Oaks and should be favored in the 71st running of the historic 1 1/8-mile Tapeta event, which has been won by the likes of Dance Smarty, Gal In a Ruckus, and...

Knightsbridge gets first two-turn try in Monmouth Cup

Knightsbridge dominated three straight Grade 3 races at Gulfstream Park over the winter to become one of the foremost dirt runners in the country, but he has endured a more challenging gauntlet since returning in May. The trials will continue when he...

FLIGHTLINES PROMINENT AMONG JUVENILES,

Two-year-old races are always fun in the summer at Del Mar, and there always are plenty of them. Roughly one in five summer races are for 2-year-olds, ranging from maiden claiming to Grade 1 and sired by a host of first-crop stallions. The 2026 season...

CARRYOVER, TAKE 2

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Pick six carryover, part deux. Thursday’s Saratoga card will feature a pick six carryover of $166,702 after the wager was not hit Saturday and the bet was canceled Sunday when the decision was made to change the distance of...

SARATOGA

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Magnitude, who has risen to the top of the older dirt male division through the first half of the year, returned to the work tab Sunday morning at Saratoga, breezing a half-mile in 50.23 seconds over the Oklahoma training...

PARX THISTLEDOWN FINGER LAKES HORSESHOE INDIANAPOLIS PRESQUE ISLE MOUNTAINEER

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Zverev reaches Wimbledon final

Cinderella wild card Arthur Fery’s run to a Wimbledon title ended Friday as French Open champion Alexander Zverev handed him a straight-set defeat, 7-6 (0), 6-2, 6-4 at the All-England Tennis Club. Fery was ranked 114th in the world coming into...

FRIENDLY CONFINES

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – When mapping out a schedule for Strong State this year, trainer Al Stall Jr. made certain to include Saratoga as part of the program. A maiden winner here at 2 and an allowance winner at 3, the 4-year-old Strong State seeks...

Sunna puts grass streak on line in Caress

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Little did trainer J. Kent Sweezey realize when he first opted to try Sunna on the turf this winter at Gulfstream Park, what a profound effect that decision would have on his young filly’s career. The maneuver instantly turned...

IT’S ALL GOOD

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Tommy Jo and Iron Orchard, a pair of Grade 1-winning 2-yearold fillies from last year, make their belated seasonal debuts in Friday’s Grade 3, $225,000 Victory Ride Stakes at Saratoga. But Goodall, who has connections to that...

UP FOR REBOUND

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Carson’s Run began his career with a maiden victory at Saratoga in July 2023 and has since won three graded stakes, two of which are Grade 1s. He is winless, however, in five starts since his victory in the Grade 3 Jockey Club...

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IN THE PINK

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Chad Brown theorizes that some missed training caught up with Zulu Kingdom in the latter stages of last month’s Grade 3 Poker Stakes here, when he finished third as the 1-5 favorite. With an uninterrupted training...

CLASS ACT

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The placement of Abashiri in Group 1 stakes in Europe in just the second and third starts of her career tells you just how much trainer Charlie Appleby thinks of the 3-year-old daughter of Frankel. After respectable, albeit...

Rispoli returns in big way aboard Baffert’s Faran

For a few moments after he was unseated from Unconquerable Keen in the stretch of the Gulfstream Park Turf Sprint in late January, jockey Umberto Rispoli thought he escaped injury. “I didn’t feel the pain when I was on the ground,” he said last...

Ellis Park

With a heat dome descending on Kentucky this week, Ellis Park begins its 25-day stand Thursday. The track opens with a special Fourth of July weekend celebration this Thursday through Sunday before settling into its regular Friday-Sunday schedule...

NEXT STOP, WHITNEY

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Three people still active in the practice of training Thoroughbred racehorses have housed a Horse of the Year in their barn four times, but if the 2026 season ended today, Steve Asmussen would become the only one with five. Half this...

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U.S. on to knockout stage

Despite a 3-2 last-second loss to Türkiye on Thursday, the United States men’s national soccer team will advance to the knockout stage of the World Cup. Victories over Australia and Paraguay propelled the U.S. to the top of Group D. The next match is...

GRENING: A VIEW FROM THE PRESS BOX,

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Through the dirty windows, under a leaky roof, with the loud clanging of heat pipes and, most recently, heavy-duty industrial fans, the Aqueduct press box is where I have watched the most races over three-plus decades of covering New...

POWER QUARTET

It would be difficult – very, very difficult – saying that the 4-year-old colt Sovereignty still has something to prove Saturday at Churchill Downs in the Stephen Foster Stakes. Winner of the Kentucky Derby, hero of the Belmont, 10-length victor in...