#Double Crown

As Keeneland prepares to host the 2022 Breeders' Cup in two weeks, the Lexington, Ky., track continues its October meet Saturday with a graded stakes for filly sprinters. Smash Ticket (5-2) is morning-line favorite for the Grade 2, $350000 Raven Run Stakes. Post time from Keeneland is 5:16 p.m., with FanDuel TV to broadcast the seven-furlong sprint…

Aqueduct Barn Notes: Ridin With Biden Headlines Saturday's Queens County Stakes From the NYRA Media Team / Mary Eddy: Cash is King and LC Racing's graded stakes-winner Ridin With Biden will look to double up on stakes scores as he wraps up his 4-year-old campaign in Saturday's $150000 Queens County, a nine-furlong main track route for 3-year-olds…

Red Oak Stable and Madaket Stables' multiple Grade 1-winner Mind Control will retire on top of his game after securing a trademark gutsy score in Saturday's Grade 1, $750000 Cigar Mile Handicap presented by NYRA Bets, at Aqueduct Racetrack. Trained by Hall of Famer Todd Pletcher and piloted by fellow Hall of Famer John Velazquez, the 6-year-old son…

The calendar has turned to December with plenty of other sports going on (including World Cup soccer added to the mix), but Team Tuley continues to look for value at tracks from coast to coast. I'm joined by my regular contributors Ed Sehon (aka Mr. Ed from his Saratoga and Keeneland columns here at VSiN.com/horse-racing/) and Rampart race and…

Mind Control after the 2021 G2 John A. Nerud, his most recent win on the NYRA circuit (Susie Raisher) By Ryan Martin - NYRA Press Office OZONE PARK, N.Y.- Red Oak Stable and Madaket Stables' dual Grade 1-winner Mind Control will attempt to go out on top when he takes on a field consisting of three other Grade 1 winners in Saturday's Grade 1,…

Whereshetoldmetogo winning last year's edition of the Bender by a neck. Photo by Jim McCue/MJC David Joseph/Maryland Jockey Club LAUREL, Md. - Defending champion Whereshetoldmetogo, a 13-time career stakes winner, and graded-stakes winners Cordmaker and Double Crown top 24 horses nominated to the $75000 Howard & Sondra Bender Memorial Friday, Nov.…

Beverly Park wins a starter allowance June 18 at Churchill Downs (Coady Photography) Kentucky HBPA Press Release LOUISVILLE, Ky.- For those lamenting that horses today don't run enough, meet Beverly Park. If ever there was a horse that the Claiming Crown was meant to showcase it's the 5-year-old Beverly Park, who runs in the $100000 Claiming Crown…

For those lamenting that horses today don't run enough, meet Beverly Park. If ever there was a horse that the Claiming Crown was meant to showcase it's the 5-year-old Beverly Park, who runs in the $100000 Claiming Crown Ready's Rocket Express in Saturday's eighth race at Churchill Downs. Blue collar? Check. Work horse? Check. Helping to fill…

By Mary Eddy - NYRA Press Office OZONE PARK, N.Y.- Wertheimer and Frere's Pao Alto looks to earn his first stateside victory for conditioner Graham Motion in Sunday's $135000 Artie Schiller, a one-mile inner turf test for 3-year-olds and up, at Aqueduct Racetrack. Pao Alto, a 5-year-old French-bred son of Intello, will cut back one furlong from his…

Belmont at the Big A is winding down. Although racing will continue from Aqueduct, the meet will take on the usual title of Aqueduct Winter Meet. Post: 12:35 PM ET; $77k Maiden Special Weight going 1 1/16 miles on turf; Entries: 12 #7 PHOTON (3-1) gets the top selection. She goes out for the Breen barn and gets Ortiz in the irons. #3 CAN'T FOOL ME…

OZONE PARK, N.Y.- Blue Lion Thoroughbreds, Craig Taylor and Diamond T Racing's Morello returns to the site of his lone graded stakes victory in Saturday's Grade 2, $300000 Kelso for 3-year-olds and upward going a one-turn mile at Belmont at the Big A. The Kelso offers the top-four finishers a free nomination and starting fee in the Grade 1, $750000…