#Proven Innocent

SARATOGA SPRINGS - Turf racing for 2-year-old fillies and a stakes race for horses that are novices over the jumps headline the Saratoga card on Thursday. The $150000 P.G. Johnson has drawn eight entries to run 1 1/16 miles on the Mellon Turf Course, plus one who will run only if the race is moved from the turf to the main track. Be Your Best, who…

In a court of law, it's "innocent until proven guilty." But Canadian gaming regulatory boards are not a court of law, and with them, apparently, it's "guilty until proven innocent." Or, using phrasing more sympathetic to the thinking of those regulators in Canada, perhaps it could be presented as "erring on the side of extreme caution until…

By mere coincidence, both the New York Racing Association and Churchill Downs kicked off their fall meets on Thursday. Also by mere coincidence, the first race at both was won by an Irish jockey. Declan Cannon brought in Laurence McGrath's Hornbeam for trainer Andrew McKeever at Churchill. He rallied the Juddmonte castoff, a 3-year-old gelding, to…

The beginning of the Belmont Park fall meet will look very different this year. The races will be run at Aqueduct in what is being called Belmont at the Big A. The change of venue is the result of renovations being made to Belmont which include installing tunnels under the track for infield access. Post: 1:00 PM ET; $75k William Entenmann Novice S.…