DRF | 2 hours ago
While the Triple Crown hopes of Kentucky Derby winner Orb, who represents decades of involvement in the racing industry for the Phipps and Janney families, were dashed in the Preakness Stakes, another historic name landed in the winner's circle Saturday at Pimlico Race Course.
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Preakness Stakes: Oxbow fulfills potential of stellar pedigree with win
DRF | 2 hours ago
Oxbow’s 1 3/4-length win in the 138th Preakness Stakes on Saturday can be attributed to several factors, including Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas’ confidence and handling of his charge, and fellow Hall of Famer Gary Stevens’ masterful pace-controlling ride. Furthermore, his pedigree was one of the strongest among all classic contenders this year.
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Preakness Stakes: Oxbow fulfills potential of stellar pedigree with win
DRF | 2 hours ago
Oxbow’s 1 3/4-length win in the 138th Preakness Stakes on Saturday can be attributed to several factors, including Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas’ confidence and handling of his charge, and fellow Hall of Famer Gary Stevens’ masterful pace-controlling ride. Furthermore, his pedigree was one of the strongest among all classic contenders this year.
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Preakness Stakes: Oxbow wins for breeder Santulli’s Colts Neck Stables
DRF | 2 hours ago
Oxbow’s upset victory in the Preakness Stakes was a triumph for a trio of established names in the racing industry—trainer D. Wayne Lukas, jockey Gary Stevens, and owner Calumet Farm—but it was also the first classic win for a fairly new entity, Richard Santulli’s Colts Neck Stables.
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Einstein sires first winner at Lone Star Park
DRF | 3 hours ago
Multiple Grade 1 winner and freshman sire Einstein was represented by his first winner on Saturday when E Equalsmcsquared won a maiden claiming race at Lone Star Park.
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Winslow Homer, Grade 3 winner, retired
DRF | 3 hours ago
Grade 3 winner Winslow Homer has been retired with a suspensory injury, owner Rick Porter of Fox Hill Farm announced Saturday.
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Champion Benny the Bull’s first winner scores in Puerto Rico
DRF | 3 hours ago
Champion sprinter Benny the Bull was represented by his first winner May 11, when Joe Pike won his career debut at Camarero Race Track in Puerto Rico.
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Prairie Meadows: Wolf Pack Jack, Jumped the Harbor get stakes wins
DRF | 4 hours ago
The Ray Tracy-trained duo of Wolf Pack Jack and Rushin' Rubietta dominated their Iowa-bred foes Saturday evening in the $68,650 Gray's Lake Stakes, a six-furlong race that attracted seven 3-year-old geldings.
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Evangeline Downs: Cho Cho Cat rallies to win Tellike Stakes
DRF | 4 hours ago
Taking advantage of a blistering early pace, Cho Cho Cat staged a furious rally from last in the final furlong to win Saturday night’s $50,000 Tellike Stakes at Evangeline Downs.
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Preakness Stakes: Plesa pleased with Itsmyluckyday’s performance
DRF | 5 hours ago
Trainer Eddie Plesa Jr. expressed satisfaction Sunday morning that his 3-year-old Itsmyluckyday bounced back from his 15th-place non-effort in the Kentucky Derby with a solid second-place finish in Saturday’s Preakness Stakes.
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Belmont Stakes: Oxbow, Orb might meet again in New York
DRF | 5 hours ago
Oxbow, the winner of the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, left Pimlico Race Course early Sunday morning, and a couple of hours later, so too did Orb, who won the Kentucky Derby and was fourth in the Preakness. But there is a good chance they could meet again June 8 in the Belmont Stakes, the final leg of the Triple Crown.
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Meadowlands: Sevruga and Sweet Lou get their noses up to win Cutler, Maturity
DRF | 15 hours ago
Sevruga kept his nose in front of the competition despite being put to intense pressure from the halfway mark to capture the $180,000 Arthur Cutler Memorial. Then Sweet Lou overcame post nine to capture the $100,000 Meadowlands Maturity.
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Andrew Beyer: At 77, Lukas rolls the dice and wins
DRF | 17 hours ago
When Oxbow led all the way to score a 16-to-1 upset in the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, the result confirmed one tent of trainer Wayne Lukas’s philosophy: You can’t win if you don’t run.
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Preakness Stakes handle down 3.2%; handle for card rises 2.0%
DRF | 19 hours ago
Betting on the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Racecourse in Baltimore on Saturday was $54.15 million, according to the official chart of the race, down 3.2 percent from wagering on the race last year and nearly $5 million off the record set in 2009.
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Hollywood Park: Talamo gets perfect trips to sweep Everett Handicap, Fran’s Valentine
DRF | 19 hours ago
The strategy worked on turf early in the afternoon and again later in the day on the main track. Jockey Joe Talamo swept the two stakes at Betfair Hollywood Park aboard 4-year-old fillies that had perfect trips from off the pace.
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Preakness Stakes: McGaughey disappointed after Orb struggles home fourth
DRF | 19 hours ago
Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey admitted to allowing himself to dream about the possibility of going for a Triple Crown with Kentucky Derby winner Orb in the June 8 Belmont Stakes. But after Orb finished a disappointing fourth, nine lengths behind the front-running winner Oxbow in Saturday’s 138th Preakness Stakes at Pimlico, there is no chance for racing’s first Triple Crown since 1978.
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Preakness Stakes winners for D. Wayne Lukas, Gary Stevens, and Calumet Farm
DRF | 20 hours ago
D. Wayne Lukas has won the Preakness six times. Gary Stevens has three Preakness wins. Calumet Farm has won the Preakness eight times.
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Preakness Stakes order of finish
DRF | 20 hours ago
Find the complete order of finish for the Grade 1, $1 million Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course on Saturday here.
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Canterbury Park: Heliskier remains unbeaten with 10,000 Lakes romp
DRF | 20 hours ago
Heliskier went postward as the 2-5 favorite in the $50,000 10,000 Lakes, the longest odds since his 2012 debut in a statebred allowance, and proved that even those odds were too high with a 5 1/2-length win that moved his record to 7 for 7.
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Monmouth Park: Za Approval overcomes traffic in Red Bank Stakes
DRF | 20 hours ago
Za Approval, a gray horse whose hair has gone nearly white, usually is not hard to pick out in a race, but so buried was he in traffic Saturday at Monmouth Park during the Red Bank Stakes that the striking coat was difficult to locate. But, finally extricated from trouble at the top of the stretch, there came Za Approval, running down another light gray horse, Tune Me In, to win the Red Bank in a game performance.
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Preakness Stakes: Oxbow leads throughout under Gary Stevens; Orb fourth at 3-5
DRF | 20 hours ago
Jockey Gary Stevens, who came out of a seven-year retirement in January, and trainer D. Wayne Lukas, still going strong at age 77, put added shine on their Hall of Fame careers and put an end to the Triple Crown aspirations of Orb by teaming to win the138th Preakness Stakes on Saturday at Pimlico Race Course with the 15-1 longshot Oxbow.
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Belmont Park: Glorious View digs in to win Vagrancy
DRF | 21 hours ago
Glorious View became a graded stakes winner in her first try, gamely turning back a stretch-long bid from Fantasy of Flight to register a hard-fought, half-length decision in Saturday’s $200,000 Vagrancy Handicap at Belmont Park. Withgreatpleasure finished third.
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Delaware Park: Missy Rules, Ile St. Molly front-running upsetters in Our Mims
DRF | 21 hours ago
Missy Rules and Ile St. Molly each upset a division of the Our Mims Stakes on Saturday’s opening day of the Delaware Park meeting the same way - grabbing a clear early lead and never relinquishing it.
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Dixie Stakes: Skyring upsets at 24-1
DRF | 21 hours ago
Trainer D. Wayne Lukas had the competition surrounded in the Grade 2, $300,000 Dixie Stakes at Pimlico on Saturday, sending out Skyring to a wire-to-wire win at 24-1 and uncoupled stablemate Optimizer to a third-place finish. The horses were split by Willcox Inn.
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Woodbine: Bear’s Gem takes Ballade for fifth straight win
DRF | 21 hours ago
<p>ETOBICOKE, Ontario – The favored Bear’s Gem notched her first stakes while registering her fifth straight victory Saturday at Woodbine in the $126,200 Ballade, a six-furlong dash for Ontario-sired females.</p>
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Maryland Sprint Handicap: Sage Valley sharp despite six-month layoff
DRF | 22 hours ago
Making his first start since November a winning one, Michael Dubb's Sage Valley moved to challenge three wide on the far turn, took over in the stretch and contained a late charge from Hardened Wildcat to win the Grade 3, $150,000 Maryland Sprint Handicap Saturday at Pimlico.
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Thistledown: Raise the Reward cruises in Michael F. Rowland Memorial
DRF | 22 hours ago
Raise the Reward dueled for the early lead but shook clear on the turn to win the $50,000 Michael F. Rowland Memorial at Thistledown under a hand ride Saturday.
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Pimlico: Pianist wires Gallorette field under Mike Smith
DRF | 22 hours ago
The Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith was riding his first race for trainer Chad Brown when he climbed aboard Pianist in the Grade 3, $150,000 Gallorette Handicap at Pimlico on Saturday. If first impressions count for much, it won’t be the last.
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James W. Murphy Stakes: Redwood Kitten takes them all the way
DRF | 23 hours ago
Redwood Kitten turned in a powerful, front-running performance in the $100,000 James W. Murphy, winning the one-mile turf race for 3-year-olds by a length over Shining Copper.
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DuPont Distaff: Summer Applause strongest in stretch
DRF | 23 hours ago
Minutes after the first rain shower of the racing day, Summer Applause proved a popular winner of the Grade 3, $150,000 Allaire DuPont Distaff on the Preakness undercard at Pimlico.
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Hollywood Park notes: Paynter puts in strong work
DRF | 24 hours ago
Paynter, winner of the Grade 1 Haskell Invitational last August who later survived a bout with laminitis, is nearing a comeback. Friday, the 4-year-old Paynter worked six furlongs in 1:12.60 at Hollywood Park.
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Newbury: Farhh finally gets his Group 1 in J.T. Lockinge
DRF | 24 hours ago
Farhh finished second in four Group 1 stakes during his 2012 campaign, but won at the highest level in his first start of 2013, scoring a sharp victory Saturday at Newbury in the Group 1 J.T. Lockinge Stakes.
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Pimlico: Zee Bros burns up track in Chick Lang score
DRF | 1 day ago
Zee Bros, with Martin Garcia up, made a slow track look quick as he blitzed his eight rivals with a front-running 2 1/4-length victory in the $100,000 Chick Lang Stakes on Saturday.
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Churchill Downs: Take Charge Indy gearing up for Stephen Foster
DRF | 1 day ago
Take Charge Indy, the romping winner of the May 3 Alysheba Stakes, had his first breeze since that breakout victory when going an easy half-mile in 51 seconds early Saturday at Churchill Downs.
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Hastings: Evelyn’s Dancer looks tough in Starwberry Morn
DRF | 1 day ago
Evelyn’s Dancer is going to be tough to beat in the 6 1/2-furlong, $50,000 Strawberry Morn at Hastings on Monday.
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Ajax Downs begins 30-day Quarter Horse meeting
DRF | 1 day ago
Ajax Downs will open its doors Monday for a 30-day meeting that runs though Oct. 15.
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Parx Racing: Kreiser and Lake mares muddy the picture
DRF | 1 day ago
The eighth race Monday, a second-level optional $25,000 claimer for fillies and mares going 6 1/2 furlongs on the main track, is complicated by the presence of the Tim Kreiser-trained La Grey Zuliana and Scott Lake’s filly Dani’s Storm.
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Northlands Park: Bond James Bond steps up after win
DRF | 1 day ago
Trainer Greg Tracy got what he was looking for when Bond James Bond easily won a $25,000 optional claimer in his seasonal debut at Northlands Park on May 4. A triple stakes winner at 2, Bond James Bond had not won a race since he scored a front-running win in a $75,000 optional claimer at Hastings in his first start as a 3-year-old in 2011.
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Hastings: Herbie D the one to catch in John Longden 6000
DRF | 1 day ago
Herbie D, the champion sprinter in British Columbia in 2012, will make his seasonal debut in the $50,000 John Longden 6000 at Hastings on Monday. The 6 1/2-furlong sprint for 3-year-olds and up headlines an eight-race card.
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Pimlico: Debt Ceiling rallies to win Rollicking Stakes
DRF | 1 day ago
Debt Ceiling used new tactics Saturday when he remained perfect in two starts with his off-the-pace win in the $100,000 Rollicking. The five-furlong race for 2-year-olds was the first of seven stakes on the Preakness card at Pimlico Race Course.
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Hollywood Park: Marketing Mix to return in Gamely
DRF | 1 day ago
A little later than originally intended, Marketing Mix makes her 2013 debut in the $250,000 Gamely Stakes at Betfair Hollywood Park on May 27.
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Woodbine: Casse saddles Paso Doble, Haverhill for New Providence
DRF | 1 day ago
Trainer Mark Casse will saddle Paso Doble and Haverhill in the $125,000 New Providence Stakes, the contentious feature on the Victoria Day holiday Monday at Woodbine.
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Doomben: Beaten Up wins Doomben Cup
DRF | 1 day ago
Beaten Up, a Group 3 winner in England in 2011, won the richest and most prestigious race of his career in Saturday’s Group 1 Doomben Cup at Doomben Racecourse in Australia.
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Dettori’s return from suspension delayed
DRF | 1 day ago
The comeback of former British champion jockey Frankie Dettori from a six-month drug suspension has been postponed from Monday until later in May after French racing officials told their counterparts in Brtain on Friday that the rider must first meet with their medical committee.
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Preakness Stakes: Rain possible before race time
DRF | 1 day ago
The 13-race Preakness Stakes card at Pimlico Race Course could see a change in weather patterns from the cloudy skies and 70-degree temperatures the program opened under at 10:45 a.m. Eastern.
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