14+ hour, 8+ min ago   (368+ words) Grade 1 winner Further Ado tries to recapture the form that made him the Kentucky Derby favorite when he takes on 10 rivals Saturday in the Grade 1, $1 million Pennsylvania Derby at Parx. The 1 1/8-mile Pennsylvania Derby, co-featured on a 15-race card with…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (242+ words) Horse Racing Nation Churchill Downs: Bob Baffert-trained Explora leads Dogwood Grade 1 winner Explora will face five fellow 3-year-old fillies that entered next Saturday’s 51st running of the Grade 3, $300,000 Dogwood Stakes, one of three stakes on the Downs After Dark program at…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (242+ words) Amberjack completed the top three with a 131 HRN speed figure at Monmouth Park in an allowance-optional claimer at six furlongs on the dirt. The sophomore Complexity colt, conditioned by Jorge Delgado, was the even-money favorite of six. He jumped to…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (575+ words) Summer Starlet tracked a contested pace from the outside, tipped four wide for the drive and pulled clear to a 4 3/4-length win Saturday in the Grade 1, $300,000 Spinaway Stakes at Saratoga. "The only thing I can say is I was being…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (334+ words) Horse Racing Nation Super Screener: A nice price awaits in the Spinaway Summer trucks along for two more weekends, but the final weekend of racing at the premier summer venues is this weekend with Grade 1 action closing out Saratoga, Kentucky…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (725+ words) That old line about luck being the residue of good design might as well fall on deaf ears with Ethical Diamond’s trainer Willie Mullins. “You need a bit of luck in everything,” Mullins said Friday. “As the guy said, ‘The…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (155+ words) Englishman earned a 143 Horse Racing Nation speed figure for his win Saturday in the Grade 1 H. Allen Jerkens Memorial at Saratoga, the HRN highest speed figure this year. With Jose Ortiz riding for trainer Cherie DeVaux, the 3-year-old Maxfield colt led…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (800+ words) The Jockey Club has elected Joe Appelbaum and C. Steven Duncker as stewards. Everett R. Dobson (chair) was reelected. The remaining stewards are vice chairman William S. Farish Jr., Gary Fenton, Terry Finley, treasurer Ian D. Highet, Marc Holliday, Bret Jones, secretary William M. Lear…...

2+ week, 15+ hour ago   (273+ words) Del Mar stewards suspended jockey Antonio Fresu for three racing days Saturday for his ride aboard Big Blast in the eighth and final race on Friday's card. Stewards found that Fresu altered course without sufficient clearance in the stretch and…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (243+ words) New millionaire Willy D’s proved too stubborn for his competition Friday night when he led from gate to wire and held off two former winners to triumph in the Grade 2, $1 million Charles Town Classic. Owned by Peter Proscia’s Paradise Farms…...