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Veteran rider Mike Luzzi broke his right ankle in a pre-race incident aboard Breaking Stones ahead of Saturday's eighth race at Belmont Park. He fractured his right ankle and will need surgery. He will probably be out about 6-to-8 weeks, said Luzzi's agent Mike Monroe. He said the horse acted up at the gate and […]

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Closing day for the spring meet at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. was already a blockbuster one loaded with seven stakes races on the 11-race card, including two Win-And-You're-In events for this year's Breeders' Cup at Del Mar. Sunday's news from the Daily Racing Form's Marty McGee that trainer Fausto Gutierrez had declared Letruska, the […]

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Tragic news from Japan where Saudi Derby winner Pink Kamehameha has died after reportedly suffering acute heart failure and crashing through the rails during a race at Tokyo racecourse. In a sickening incident on the back straight, the three-year-old's jockey Hiroshi Kitamura was taken to hospital in Fuchu City after being thrown onto the road […]

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In a partnership group headed by Louisville-based entrepreneur and philanthropist Brook Smith, RSLP Racing and trainer Jeff Hiles claimed a trio of horses from Race 4 Saturday at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. - a maiden $100,000 claiming event for 2-year-olds. Smith's RSLP Racing, which stands for Rocket Ship Launch Pad, will be using former […]

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Bruce Lunsford's Grade 2 Blue Grass Stakes winning-homebred Art Collector leads a field of nine colts and geldings that were entered in Friday's $110,000 Kelly's Landing Overnight Stakes at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. - the penultimate card of the 38-day Spring Meet. The seven-furlong Kelly's Landing was carded as Race 10 with a post […]

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As Yogi Berra once famously noted, It's deja vu all over again.   Such was the case in the 81st running of the Grade 3, $100,000 San Juan Capistrano Stakes on Saturday at Santa Anita  in Arcadia, Calif., as 7-year-old California-bred gelding Acclimate skipped to a 3 ¾-length victory, replicating his gate-to-wire score in the 2019 […]

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Unexpectedly last early, Terry Lovingier's homebred Fi Fi Pharoah battled through the lane with Eddie's New Dream to win by a half length in Saturday's $150,000 Melair Stakes at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif.  Trained by Walther Solis and ridden by Umberto Rispoli, Fi Fi Pharoah, a 3-year-old daughter of 2015 Triple Crown winner American […]

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Attentive to the pace throughout, longshot Jimmy Blue Jeans was all heart late as he held off heavily favored None Above the Law by a neck in Saturday's $150,000 Snow Chief Stakes at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif.  Trained by Golden Gate Fields-based Andy Mathis and ridden by Kent Desormeaux, Jimmy Blue Jeans got 1 […]

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Can't Buy Love kicked off the 2021 season's stakes action, rallying late to win the $125,000 Star Shoot six-furlong sprint for three-year-old fillies at Woodbine Race Course in Toronto, Ontario. Justin Stein worked out the winning trip aboard the Michael Trombetta trainee in her Woodbine debut after she was claimed for $75,000 at Gulfstream Park […]

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With the action heating up at Woodbine Racetrack near Toronto, Ontario, LNJ Foxwoods' 4-year-old filly Boardroom earned her first graded stakes title in the $150,000 Grade 3 Whimsical Stakes co-featured on Saturday's card. With regular rider Luis Contreras up for Hall of Fame trainer Josie Carroll, Boardroom made her seasonal debut a winning one in […]

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