#Fair Hill

War of Will, shown winning the Maker's Mark Mile at Keeneland in July, is a major player in Saturday's Grade I Woodbine Mile. Photo courtesy of Keeneland Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Two days of top-level turf action at Woodbine, including three Breeders' Cup "Win and You're In" events, provide the feature attraction in weekend horse racing. Two of the…

The 49th annual Fair Hill Races steeplechase competition will be held Saturday, a nine-race program with $210000 in purses beginning at 1 p.m. in Cecil County, Maryland. Gates open at 10 a.m. General admission tickets are $15 for adults and $5 for children on race day. The day features the $50000 Iris Ann Coggins Memorial, a 2¼-mile hurdle race in…

Bobby Flay's homebred Pizza Bianca (#4 outside) under Jose Ortiz on her way to winning the Hilltop Stakes at Pimlico May 20, 2022, and earning Black Type. (Maryland Jockey Club photo) By Maribeth Kalinich There's a phenomenon happening in North America. Turf races are booming. That is in part thanks to more European horses coming across the pond to…

Favored In Italian went wire-to-wire to give owner Peter Brant and trainer Chad Brown their second graded victory of the afternoon in the GIII Honey Fox S. at Gulfstream Park Saturday. The chestnut filly rushed up to take the lead into the first turn. Allowed to set pedestrian splits, the favorite shrugged off a pair of challengers in upper stretch…

Disgraced trainer Mahmood Al Zarooni was banned for eight years for instigating the biggest drug scandal in British horseracing. The 15 horses given anabolic steroids in his Godolphin stable in Newmarket have been banned from running for six months - effectively ending their season. Three other employees - an assistant vet and two yard foremen -…

PIZZA BIANCA RETURNS TO THE SCENE OF HER GREATEST TRIUMPH Pizza Bianca was a little known 2-year-old filly when she first arrived at Del Mar at the beginning of November last year. She left a celebrity with a Breeders' Cup victory to her credit. She's 3 now and back at the seaside oval to compete in the G1 Matriarch Sunday, contested at a mile on…

Trainer Mark Shuman wasn't sure whether running Angel Art, a two-year-old Imagining filly, Saturday in a maiden special weight race at Laurel Park was a good idea. Spoiler alert: It was. "We could have waited and run her in one of those waiver maiden claimers," Shuman said. "And I worry when they start dumping all the sand on the track." The sand,…

There are four stakes on the docket this weekend in the Mid-Atlantic, all Saturday. Three, including two for two-year-olds, are at Laurel Park, while the fourth is Saturday evening at Charles Town Races. The two-year-old races at Laurel are of particular interest - any stars in the making? - while the Charles Town stake, the renamed Randy…

Candy Light wins an allowance at Keeneland Oct. 13 (Coady Photography) By Keith McCalmont - NYRA Press Office OZONE PARK, N.Y- Trainer Graham Motion will saddle Fortune Racing's multiple stakes-placed Candy Light in Sunday's $135000 Winter Memories, a 1 1/16-mile outer turf test for sophomore fillies at Aqueduct Racetrack. Motion, who sends out Pao…

Last week, Belmont Park was the focus of the racing world with the final leg of the Triple Crown, the Belmont Stakes, preceded by a host of stakes for other Thoroughbred divisions. Earlier this week, the action shifted across the pond to England's Ascot racecourse for the Royal meet. On Saturday, the Jersey Shore will be the place to be as Monmouth…

OZONE PARK, N.Y.- Maram LLC's Kentucky homebred Dandy Handyman will make his stakes debut in Saturday's $120000 Awad at 1 1/16-miles over the inner turf for juveniles, at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet. The Awad is part of a stacked card that includes the Grade 2, $300000 Kelso, a one-turn mile for 3-year-olds and upward offering the top-four…

Join our channel to stay up to date on the latest in marketing Far Hills race meeting is getting ready for their biggest day on the US jumps horse racing calendar this Saturday (Oct 15), as the New Jersey track stages their one-day American Grand National fixture. So, to get horse racing fans in the mood, here are some fun facts about the Far Hills…

OZONE PARK, N.Y.- Four-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer Chad Brown will saddle Public Sector, L'Imperator and Lonesome Fugitive as he looks for his third consecutive score in Sunday's Grade 3, $150000 Knickerbocker, a nine-furlong inner turf test for 3-year-olds and upward, at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet. The Knickerbocker is slated as…

LAUREL, Md. - Given his breeding, Yurie Pascarella, Carl Pascarella and Herringswell Racing Club II's Hendrickson arrived at the races this year with great expectations. A son of Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Nyquist and grandson of Belmont Stakes (G1) winner Birdstone, he is out of the stakes-winning mare Thank You Marylou, named in honor of Marylou…

The Grade 3 Iroquois Stakes, Saturday at Churchill Downs, represents the first points race for the 2022 Kentucky Derby. Continue reading to see how the experts are playing the race. Ron Flatter, Horse Racing Nation Winner: #9 Guntown On the board: #6 Stellar Tap Longshot I like: #7 Red Knobs Analysis: Guntown had a troubled debut but made up for it…