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Road Warrior is Newsboy's nap selection at Carlisle on Sunday among a host of tips from a busy day of racing with action also taking place at Doncaster and Ascot REBECCA Menzies can keep her stellar season moving forward on Sunday with victory in the Go North Monet's Garden Series Final Handicap Chase at Carlisle. ROAD WARRIOR (3.36, nap) has been…

Kentucky Derby winner Mandaloun works out at Churchill Downs in preparation for Saturday's Stephen Foster Stakes. Photo courtesy of Churchill Downs July 1 (UPI) -- The Fourth of July weekend kicks off the second half of the horse racing year with a bang as Mandaloun, Life Is Good, Ce Ce and other notables return from layoffs. Adding to the…

There is good reason the memory of Hall of Fame mare Gallorette bubbles to the surface at this time each year. It's not because she was a champion, with 21 wins and 20 seconds in a career of 72 starts, or that she retired in the autumn of 1948 with record earnings and a collection of victories over first-class male competition. It's because she was…

May 20 (UPI) -- The Preakness, even without Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike, is the marquee event in weekend horse racing, but by no means the only top-shelf event on the schedule. Pimlico Race Course provides an impressive supporting program on Friday and Saturday. Churchill Downs and Monmouth Park add to the mix. On the international front,…

The steeplechase community has been lucky for most of the spring, with big crowds turning out for exciting racing and beautiful weather. But it looks as if Mother Nature may have other plans in store for Mother's Day weekend. Rain and uncommonly chilly temperatures are expected for the Virginia Gold Cup Races in The Plains, Va., on Saturday, though…

It has been three long years since Zacon Gio won ahead of Slide So Easy and Marion Marauder in the 2019 MGM Yonkers International Trot and it's extremely satisfying to see such a quality harness racing field put together for the 2022 edition. Sure, it'd be nice to have seen Atlanta and maybe a few other stars, but this year's race, scheduled for…

Sophomore Gelding Set to Run in $100000 James W. Murphy on Grass BALTIMORE, Md. - It's back to the grass for J R Sanchez Racing Stable's Shake Em Loose after the claimer-turned-multiple stakes winner on dirt breezed over Laurel Park's world-class turf course Sunday morning. Working in company with 6-year-old stakes-winning mare Can the Queen, Shake…