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The annual Louisiana Cup Day at Louisiana Downs will take place Saturday, August 5. First post is 1:05 pm (Central) for the nine-race card which will feature six stakes for accredited Louisiana-breds with purses of $75000 each. The stakes action, which gets underway in the second race of the card, will showcase a range of talented Louisiana-breds…

Godolphin's Kentucky homebred Wet Paint will look to regain winning form for conditioner Brad Cox in Saturday's Grade 1, $500000 Coaching Club American Oaks, a nine-furlong main track route for sophomore fillies, at Saratoga Race Course. The CCA Oaks is slated as Race 9 on Saturday's 11-race program, which co-features the Grade 3, $200000 Caress in…

By Mary Eddy - NYRA Press Office SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.- Godolphin's Kentucky homebred Wet Paint will look to regain winning form for conditioner Brad Cox in Saturday's Grade 1, $500000 Coaching Club American Oaks, a nine-furlong main track route for sophomore fillies, at Saratoga Race Course. The bay daughter of Blame enters from a rallying…

Flashy sprinter Munnys Gold and Pretty Mischievous, winner of her division's biggest race, square off Friday at Belmont Park. Munnys Gold is the slight 9-5 morning-line favorite for the Grade 1, $500000 Acorn Stakes. Post time is scheduled for 5:14 p.m. EDT, with FS1 showing the 1 1/16-mile event for 3-year-old fillies. The last time racing fans…

G1 Acorn Stakes Preview: Pretty Mischievous Looks Pretty Darn Good (Pretty Mischievous / Photos by Holly M. Smith) From the NYRA Media Team: This May, trainer Brendan Walsh celebrated his first Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks triumph with Godolphin's Kentucky homebred Pretty Mischievous. The daughter of Into Mischief will now look to provide Walsh with his…

Hoffman Thoroughbreds and Tom F. McCrocklin's Promiseher America, the 26-1 longest shot on the board, overtook pacesetter Capella in the far turn and fended off Gambling Girl's outside deep-stretch bid to win Saturday's Grade 3, $250000 Gazelle for 3-year-old fillies at Aqueduct Racetrack. The 128th running of the 1 1/8-mile Gazelle - one of four…

Four-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer Chad Brown will have two chances to secure his fourth Grade 3, $250000 Gazelle conquest with stakes-winners Occult and Shidabhuti in the nine-furlong test for sophomore fillies on Saturday at Aqueduct Racetrack. The Gazelle, which will award 100-40-30-20-10 qualifying points towards the Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks…

Panthalassa wins the $20 million Saudi Cup for Japan. Photo by Erika Rasmussen, courtesy of Jockey Club of Saudi Arabia Feb. 27 (UPI)-- Japanese horses won three races, including the $20 million Saudi Cup, Saturday at King Abdulaziz Racecourse as trainer Bob Baffert settled for his third straight second-place finish in the world's richest race. The…

As the 2023 Kentucky Derby trail takes a one-weekend pause, the 2023 Kentucky Oaks path continues Saturday in New York. Occult is the 7-5 morning-line favorite for the $100000 Busanda Stakes. Post time from Aqueduct is 3:47 p.m. EST, with FS2 showing the 1 1/8-mile stakes for 3-year-old fillies. The Busanda is the first prep race to pay points on a…

Three stakes winners plus a debut runner caught my eye last week. Each of them bred in Louisiana, and each of them with the talent to potentially face open company going forward. Let's start with the debut runner from Ron Faucheux's barn who ran on Thursday, Kyle Beauty. It didn't take an expert eye to be awed by this first-time-starter. After…

Lovely Ride wins Saturday's Pippin Stakes at Oaklawn Park Coady Photography, courtesy of Oaklawn Park Jan. 9 (UPI) -- Trainer Bob Baffert saddled the first three finishers in Sunday's $100000 Grade III Sham Stakes at Santa Anita, a "Road to the Kentucky Derby" race, while the other weekend qualifier went to a colt who might find the Derby distance…

Fair Grounds News: Bron and Brow Highlights 1st Gary P. Palmisano Stakes From the Fair Grounds Media Team: Gary Barber's Bron and Brow enters the 1st running of the $75000 Gary P. Palmisano Memorial Stakes after showcasing his best effort to date in a second-level allowance on Dec 15. A field of nine Louisiana-breds will take to the court in…

Recruiter posted a dominant - and popular - 2 ¾-length victory in Tuesday's $75000 Parx Juvenile Stakes at Parx Racing to run his career record to 4-for-4. The Futurity was one of two stakes for newly minted sophomores on the Tuesday card, along with the Parx Futurity for fillies. Wednesday brings three more stakes, all for older runners. Under…

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - NY Final Furlong Racing Stable and Parkland Thoroughbreds' Venti Valentine closed the curtain on her sophomore campaign with a redeeming victory in the $100000 Bay Ridge for New York-bred fillies and mares 3-years-old and upward going a one-turn mile at Aqueduct Racetrack. The victory showed a return to winning form for the Jorge…

Saturday's $400000 Remington Springboard Mile features a match-up between Giant Mischief and Echo Again who are ranked in eighth and ninth position in the latest Kentucky Derby futures released by Circa Sports in Las Vegas. Interestingly, the Remington Park morning line has Echo Again as the 2-1 favorite and Giant Mischief as the 3-1 second choice,…

A G's Charlotte, named after owner-breeder Thomas Galvin's granddaughter, captured the first edition of Fair Grounds' $75000 Big World Stakes for Louisiana-bred fillies and mares Friday, notching her first stakes win and also provided the first stakes victory for trainer Patricia West. The 3-year-old Mo Tom filly, ridden by Marcellino Pedroza Jr.,…

With stable star Ova Charged showing the way and Spirited Beauty chasing her home in second, the Brittlyn Stable Star Guitar fillies filled out the exacta in the first running of the 6-furlong $75000 Happy Ticket Stakes for older Louisiana-bred females, one of three restricted stakes run on the opening day Friday program at Fair Grounds Race Course…

The history of 151 years of horse racing at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots can be read in the stakes names, from the Colonel Power to the Rachel Alexandra (G2), the Allen Lacombe to the Buddy Diliberto. That tradition continues with the addition of six new opening weekend restricted stakes, serving as the perfect springboard for Louisiana…

Flavien Prat, atop Flightline, looks between his legs for the rest of the field after winning the Breeders' Cup Classic at the Breeders' Cup Championships at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Ky., on Saturday. Photo by Mark Abraham/UPI | License Photo LEXINGTON, Ky., Nov. 7 (UPI) -- The Breeders' Cup is in the rearview mirror and the star of the…

OKLAHOMA CITY- The locals prevailed in most of the stakes races on Oklahoma Derby Day including the biggest upset of the day in the Grade 3, $210000 Remington Park Oaks with Hits Pricey Legacy taking down Grade 1 winner Juju's Map. Juju's Map, who won the Grade 1, $400000 Alcibiades Stakes at Keeneland as a 2-year-old and then ran second to Echo…

The locals prevailed in most of the stakes races on Oklahoma Derby Day at Remington Park in Oklahoma City, Okla., including the biggest upset of the day in the Grade 3, $210000 Remington Park Oaks with Hits Pricey Legacy taking down Grade 1 winner Juju's Map. Juju's Map, who won the Grade 1, $400000 Alcibiades Stakes at Keeneland as a 2-year-old…

Last time out Society tangled with the likes of three-year-old filly division leaders Nest and Secret Oath in Saratoga''s Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks. Those waters proved a little bit too deep for the daughter of Gun Runner, and she finished a well-beaten fourth. But in today's Grade 3 Charles Town Oaks, she found a field much more to her…

Trainer Jaylan Clary is carrying on her late father Mike Neatherlin's legacy by shining like a thousand diamonds in her rookie meet at Remington Park in Oklahoma City, Okla. Clary's El Pando stayed undefeated and unchallenged, winning the $100000 Clever Trevor Stakes in the colt's second start by open daylight. The 2-year-old Kentucky-bred colt by…

Trainer Kenny McPeek will be on a quest to win back-to-back runnings of the $200000 Gulfstream Park Oaks (G2) Saturday when he saddles Crazy Beautiful for the 1 1/16-mile stakes for 3-year-old fillies. Last year, McPeek saddled Swiss Skydiver for a 9-1 upset victory in the Gulfstream Park Oaks that would set the tone for an Eclipse Award-winning…