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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...

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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...

Inspeight of charlie exits nose defeat in a key race

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The connections of Inspeightofcharlie had almost reached the Aqueduct winner’s circle when the order of finish was posted on the tote board for the ninth race on May 10, but their horse was shown to be in second place, losing a nose...

TRICKY SIX

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The final week of racing at Aqueduct begins Thursday with a carryover of $139,950 in the pick six after the wager went unsolved both Saturday and Sunday. Thursday’s sequence, which begins with race 3 (2:12 p.m. Eastern), looks...

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FINELY AGED

Alogon, a four-time stakes winner trained by Ned Allard, will make his 7-year-old debut in the $100,000 Get Serious Stakes on Sunday at Monmouth Park. The battle-hardened turf sprinter might be getting up there in years, but his trainer isn’t one to...

WAY OVERDUE

Five times in its past 10 runnings, the Ohio Derby has been won by a horse directly exiting the Triple Crown series. That’s the case for five of the 10 entrants in Saturday’s renewal of the Grade 3, $500,000 Ohio Derby at Thistledown. Ocelli, third in...

Los Alamitos Race Course

In early 2024, Zeus’ War won by two lengths and finished second by a nose in consecutive allowance starts at Golden Gate Fields. Trainer Tim McCanna has seen recent signs that Zeus’ War can return to that form in his second start of 2026 in an...

FLYING COLORS

This year has been a supercharged one for trainer Cherie DeVaux, jockey Jose Ortiz, and owner C R K Stable. DeVaux, on a steady rise in recent years, became the toast of racing this spring as she trained Golden Tempo to win the Kentucky Derby and...

NARROW EDGE

They have each won three Group 1 races on the grandest stages in Europe and the Middle East. They have career records with more wins than losses, and both won their last starts. The matchup between Daryz and Ombudsman in Wednesday’s Group 1 Prince of...

El Niño beginning to take shape

El Niño conditions have been forming for months over the Pacific Ocean and forecasts call for one of the strongest events ever. El Niño, the warming of sea surface temperatures in the Pacific, disrupts wind patterns and can trigger intense flooding....

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GOLDEN AGE

ARCADIA, Calif. – Before he ships south this summer to aim for a fifth consecutive victory in the Grade 2 Del Mar Handicap, the veteran gelding Gold Phoenix will take a detour Sunday, the originally scheduled closing day at Santa Anita. Because of...

HOME COOKING

Jumping the Gun might be up against it in the Grade 3, $300,000 Delaware Oaks on Saturday, but if anyone wants to take her down, they will have to do it over her home track. Trainer Andy Simoff has been waiting for this one at Delaware Park. “She has...

Reagan’s Wit looks to keep DeVaux barn rolling

What is a trainer of Thoroughbreds to do after her horse, the Kentucky Derby winner, captures the Belmont Stakes – after another 3-year-old she trains about two hours before the Belmont won a Grade 1 sprint with even more verve than the Belmont winner...

LEADER OF THE PACK

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Golden Tempo not only validated his Kentucky Derby victory by winning Saturday’s Belmont Stakes, he took complete control of the 3-yearold division heading into the second half of the year. Like Sovereignty a year ago, Golden...

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Rare Lyme disease found in New York

The rare Lyme disease-causing bacteria Borrelia mayonii, which had only been detected in Minnesota and Wisconsin, was found in New York last July, according to a report published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Tick-borne...

LAUNCHING PAD

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Zulu Kingdom and Salamis are Grade 1 winners pointing to similar such races later in the year. For now, however, Sunday’s Grade 3, $300,000 Poker Stakes at Saratoga serves as a nice bridge toward those more prestigious spots...

158TH BELMONT STAKES

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Renegade didn’t generate the kind of buzz a talented Todd Pletcher-trained 2-year-old typically does when he debuted at Saratoga last August. Certainly, nobody was talking about him after he got beat 18 1/4 lengths by It’s Our...

OAKS INTO ACORN

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – They rushed to the entry box for the Kentucky Oaks five weeks ago, as 17 3-year-old fillies were entered in a race that ultimately went to post with 13. The wide-open nature of the Oaks was reflected in a tote board that saw...

FORGOTTEN HORSE

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Commandment seems to be the forgotten horse of this year’s Triple Crown heading into Saturday’s $2 million Belmont Stakes at Saratoga. Despite being a multiple graded stakes winner and one of just three Grade 1 winners in the...

IMPENETRABLE

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The three best races of Iron Dome’s career came last summer at Saratoga when he ran 1 1/8 miles against New York-breds. Under those circumstances, Iron Dome went 3 for 3, winning by a combined 28 1/4 lengths. On Wednesday,...

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NEED FOR SPEED

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – As it gets closer to finalizing the field for the $2 million Belmont Stakes to be run next Saturday at Saratoga, one thing that’s becoming clear is the pace scenario will likely not be as torrid as it was in the Kentucky Derby...

STRONG SUIT

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Woodbine’s new $5 minimum pick three, with a 15 percent takeout, on select multi-stakes days begins Saturday and encompasses the three graded events on the card – the Belle Mahone, Eclipse, and Jacques Cartier. Stanley House is...

LIGHT THE FUSE

Miguel Clement has enjoyed instant success in his early career as a trainer, but working with Teddy’s Rocket has required more patience. His breakout performance has always seemed to be a start away, and it could finally come in the Grade 3, $400,000...