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Knicks Go, seen winning the Grade I Pegasus World Cup in January, is favorite for Saturday's Grade I Whitney at Saratoga. Photo courtesy of Gulfstream Park Aug. 6 (UPI) -- Rich purses drew some top foreign talent for the Saratoga Derby and Oaks on Saturday and Sunday on the upstate New York turf to highlight a big weekend of Thoroughbred…

This is "last call" weekend for Breeders' Cup hopefuls with more than a dozen "Win and You're In" races spread across three U.S. tracks. It's also Arc weekend in Paris and Winx seeks her 28th straight win in Australia. There's even more, with important 2-year-old races in Canada and the Group 1 Sun Chariot in England. Twenty-eight straight wins? It…

When the Turkish Jockey Club announced the death of classic winner and stallion Sea Hero in mid-July, the statue of the horse that resides in the Saratoga Race Course paddock was adorned with a blanket of flowers in the colors of owner and breeder Paul Mellon's Rokeby Stables. Social media was filled with pictures of the statue, along with glowing…

Jamie Rhodes-USA TODAY Sports Summer spectacle of racing at Saratoga continues this weekend, with the headline action including the Saratoga Derby Four graded races are on the card at Saratoga, including the Test Stakes The excitement of the summer meet at Saratoga continues this weekend, as there are four graded races to look forward to. We…

Life Is Good, shown winning the Pegasus World Cup at Gulfstream Park in January, is favored in Saturday's Grade I Whitney at Saratoga. Photo courtesy of Katsumi Saito Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Life is Good and Olympiad square off in the heavyweight match that is Saturday's Whitney Stakes at Saratoga, just one race after an international Group I rematch on…

Temple City Terror storms to victory in G3 Dowager (Coady Photography) By Keith McCalmont - NYRA Press Office OZONE PARK, N.Y.- Town and Country Racing's Temple City Terror will look to double up on graded scores in Friday's Grade 3, $300000 Long Island, an 11-furlong inner-turf test for fillies and mares 3-years-old and up, at Aqueduct…

All Parfait (Jpn) (Real Steel {Jpn}) made it back-to-back victories with a half-length triumph in the 1600-metre G2 Daily Hai Nisai S. at Hanshin on Saturday. Second was race favourite Danon Touchdown (Jpn) (Lord Kanaloa {Jpn}), who left the gates at 5-2. The first stakes-winner for his 2016 G1 Dubai Turf-winning sire, the 2-year-old colt broke in…

George Krikorian's War Like Goddess took on a new task of facing males and handled it with flying colors, defeating a field that included three other Grade 1 winners by 2 3/4 lengths in Saturday's Grade 1, $500000 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic at Belmont at the Big A. The 46th running of the 12-furlong test over the inner turf marked its first running at…

It's 2-year-old showcase weekend at Saratoga and Del Mar, with top trainers sending out what they hope will turn into promising contenders for the 2022 Triple Crown. Throw in the $1 million Jockey Club Gold Cup (G1) and the $600000 Flower Bowl Invitational (G1), a pair of Breeders' Cup "Win and You're In'' races the Spa, plus a $1 million race at…

OZONE PARK, N.Y.- For the past two seasons, George Krikorian's War Like Goddess has displayed superiority amongst her staying female counterparts at graded stakes level on grass. In Saturday's Grade 1, $500000 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic, the talented bay mare will target a new task when facing males for the first time for Hall of Famer Bill Mott. The…

Today is Day 20 of the Saratoga Race Course meet. Racing starts at 1:05 p.m. RECENT STORIES FROM THE DAILY GAZETTE AT THE TRACK Life Is Good has only run longer than a mile four times in his career and has run a mile and a quarter just once, but after he won the mile-and-an-eighth Whitney at Saratoga Race Course Saturday, trainer Todd Pletcher said…

In Spa Selections, Saratoga correspondent Joseph Aiello provides Saratoga picks for a handful of key races at Saratoga, including all of the exciting stakes action! Race 5 - Fasig-Tipton Lure Stakes 1. #7 Sifting Sands (5-1) - Has already won twice at Saratoga and is likely to be overlooked with the other Chad Brown trainee taking more money, he…