DRF | 1 year ago
TimeformUS handicapper David Aragona highlights some contenders on Friday's card at Aqueduct.
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TimeformUS Aqueduct Horses in Focus for Friday, March 10, 2023
DRF | 1 year ago
TimeformUS handicapper David Aragona highlights some contenders on Friday's card at Aqueduct.
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Australia: I Wish I Win, In Secret co-favored in Newmarket Handicap at Flemington
DRF | 1 year ago
A sharp closing rally has made the New Zealand-bred gelding I Wish I Win a multiple stakes winner in Australia, and the runner to fear in the Group 1 Newmarket Handicap at six furlongs at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne on Friday evening.
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Australia: I Wish I Win, In Secret co-favored in Newmarket Handicap at Flemington
DRF | 1 year ago
A sharp closing rally has made the New Zealand-bred gelding I Wish I Win a multiple stakes winner in Australia, and the runner to fear in the Group 1 Newmarket Handicap at six furlongs at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne on Friday evening.
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Few changes to Del Mar’s summer stakes schedule
DRF | 1 year ago
Del Mar has made only minor revisions to its 39-race stakes schedule for the 31-day summer meeting, which runs from July 21 to Sept. 10, the track announced on Thursday.
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Few changes to Del Mar’s summer stakes schedule
DRF | 1 year ago
Del Mar has made only minor revisions to its 39-race stakes schedule for the 31-day summer meeting, which runs from July 21 to Sept. 10, the track announced on Thursday.
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Country Grammer tops Baffert’s team for Dubai Word Cup card
DRF | 1 year ago
Trainer Bob Baffert has three candidates for the major stakes on the Dubai World Cup program at Meydan Racecourse on March 25: Country Grammer, Worcester and Hopkins.
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Country Grammer tops Baffert’s team for Dubai Word Cup card
DRF | 1 year ago
Trainer Bob Baffert has three candidates for the major stakes on the Dubai World Cup program at Meydan Racecourse on March 25: Country Grammer, Worcester and Hopkins.
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Arabian Knight among Kentucky Derby candidates to work in advance of storm
DRF | 1 year ago
Three of the biggest names among the California-based 3-year-olds had workouts at Santa Anita on Thursday, a day before the expected arrival of a rainstorm.
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Arabian Knight among Kentucky Derby candidates to work in advance of storm
DRF | 1 year ago
Three of the biggest names among the California-based 3-year-olds had workouts at Santa Anita on Thursday, a day before the expected arrival of a rainstorm.
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Byers replaces Stauffer as Oaklawn Park announcer
DRF | 1 year ago
Jim Byers will be serving as the announcer at Oaklawn Park for the immediate future because Vic Stauffer is no longer with the track as of this week, an Oaklawn executive said Thursday.
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Byers replaces Stauffer as Oaklawn Park announcer
DRF | 1 year ago
Jim Byers will be serving as the announcer at Oaklawn Park for the immediate future because Vic Stauffer is no longer with the track as of this week, an Oaklawn executive said Thursday.
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Video snafu caused inadvertent Sunland disqualification
DRF | 1 year ago
Stewards at Sunland Park in New Mexico inadvertently rewound a replay video to a previous race when they made an erroneous decision to demote a horse in a Quarter Horse race last Friday, according to testimony from the stewards during a hearing on Thur...
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Video snafu caused inadvertent Sunland disqualification
DRF | 1 year ago
Stewards at Sunland Park in New Mexico inadvertently rewound a replay video to a previous race when they made an erroneous decision to demote a horse in a Quarter Horse race last Friday, according to testimony from the stewards during a hearing on Thur...
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Meadowlands: Analysis for Saturday 3/11
DRF | 1 year ago
Derick Giwner's analysis of the Saturday 3/11 card at The Meadowlands.
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Meadowlands: Analysis for Saturday 3/11
DRF | 1 year ago
Derick Giwner's analysis of the Saturday 3/11 card at The Meadowlands.
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Woodbine Mohawk Park: Analysis for Saturday 3/11
DRF | 1 year ago
Garnet Barnsdale's analysis of the Saturday 3/11 card at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
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Woodbine Mohawk Park: Analysis for Saturday 3/11
DRF | 1 year ago
Garnet Barnsdale's analysis of the Saturday 3/11 card at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
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Forbidden Kingdom will show the way in San Carlos
DRF | 1 year ago
There is no compromise regarding race tactics for the 4-year-old Forbidden Kingdom. All trials in morning workouts have failed. Forbidden Kingdom will be on the lead in Saturday's Grade 3 San Carlos Stakes at seven furlongs at Santa Anita.
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Forbidden Kingdom will show the way in San Carlos
DRF | 1 year ago
There is no compromise regarding race tactics for the 4-year-old Forbidden Kingdom. All trials in morning workouts have failed. Forbidden Kingdom will be on the lead in Saturday's Grade 3 San Carlos Stakes at seven furlongs at Santa Anita.
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Grade 1 winners Clairiere, Secret Oath the big names in Azeri Stakes
DRF | 1 year ago
Hall of Fame trainers Steve Asmussen and D. Wayne Lukas have been waiting all meet for Saturday afternoon. Clairiere, a $2 million earner from the barn of Asmussen, and Secret Oath, a Kentucky Oaks winner for Lukas, return from layoffs in the Grade 2, ...
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Grade 1 winners Clairiere, Secret Oath the big names in Azeri Stakes
DRF | 1 year ago
Hall of Fame trainers Steve Asmussen and D. Wayne Lukas have been waiting all meet for Saturday afternoon. Clairiere, a $2 million earner from the barn of Asmussen, and Secret Oath, a Kentucky Oaks winner for Lukas, return from layoffs in the Grade 2, ...
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Fun to Dream favored, but no cinch, in Beholder Mile
DRF | 1 year ago
A deep field of eight fillies and mares were entered in the $500,000 Beholder Mile on Saturday at Santa Anita. Fun to Dream is a proper favorite but hardly a standout.
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Forego top three rematched in Big Daddy Stakes
DRF | 1 year ago
Candy Overload, Here Mi Song, and Night Time, separated by less than a length while making up the trifecta in the Forego last month at Turfway Park, get a rematch in the $125,000 Big Daddy Stakes, the Saturday night feature at the Florence, Ky., track.
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Frank’s Rockette a short-priced standout in Hurricane Bertie
DRF | 1 year ago
Frank's Rockette is expected to go postward one of the shortest-priced favorites of the Gulfstream Park winter season when she takes on on five seemingly overmatched rivals in Saturday's $125,000 Hurricane Bertie. The Grade 3 filly and mare sprint fixture is the first of two stakes on the card.
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Rossa Veloce has a lot going for her in Correction Stakes
DRF | 1 year ago
Rossa Veloce has speed, the rail, and is in career-best form. Her connections hopes she can parlay those tangibles into her first stakes victory in Saturday's $100,000 Correction at Aqueduct.
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Four two-turn stakes spice up Festival Day undercard
DRF | 1 year ago
Four undercard stakes, all of them around two turns and all but one of them graded, lend a touch of class to an outstanding Festival Day program Saturday at Tampa Bay Downs.
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Phoenix Gold Cup, Fitzsimmons lead stellar Turf Paradise card
DRF | 1 year ago
Turf Paradise puts out its own version of Super Saturday as the Phoenix track presents five stakes, headed by the meet's marquee event, the $100,000 Phoenix Gold Cup.
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Tapit Trice will be short price to win Tampa Bay Derby
DRF | 1 year ago
One week after Forte further entrenched himself as the Kentucky Derby favorite, trainer Todd Pletcher will be looking for at least one more of his talented 3-year-olds to emerge as a contender for the May 6 Run for the Roses.
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Formal bidding process set for Kentucky Adena Springs property
DRF | 1 year ago
The Kentucky Adena Springs property put up for sale late in 2021 by owner Frank Stronach will now go through a formal bidding process, the agent for the listing said Wednesday.
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Thoroughbred owner Paolucci pleads guilty in federal fraud case
DRF | 1 year ago
Ron Paolucci, the outspoken Thoroughbred owner who started hundreds of horses a year at the height of his involvement in racing in the late 2010s, has pleaded guilty to counts of defrauding the federal government and filing a false tax return, accordin...
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Harness: Profile of trainer Rob Harmon
DRF | 1 year ago
Rob Harmon has been around the sport since he was a kid and has been a listed trainer for more than 30 years. During the last three decades he has been a rock on the overnight racing scene from Michigan to New York and climbed the leaderboard for caree...
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Declan Schuster’s Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Saturday, March 11, 2023
DRF | 1 year ago
Declan Schuster's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Saturday, March 11, 2023, at Sha Tin.
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DRF’s Horse Racing Playbook for Thursday, March 9, 2023
DRF | 1 year ago
Daily Racing Form has served as the most trusted source of news and information about the sport since 1894, and moving forward we have decided to provide a free daily playbook; something that both hardcore horseplayers and casual observers can reference to get informed of each day's action.
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DERBYSCOPIO IX. Marzo 8, 2023
DRF | 1 year ago
El Camino al Kentucky Derby tomó temperatura esta semana con 4 competencias y un total de 340 puntos otorgados a 20 ejemplares que se hicieron elegibles al figurar en el Top 5 de sus respectivos eventos.
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DERBYSCOPIO IX. Marzo 8, 2023
DRF | 1 year ago
El Camino al Kentucky Derby tomó temperatura esta semana con 4 competencias y un total de 340 puntos otorgados a 20 ejemplares que se hicieron elegibles al figurar en el Top 5 de sus respectivos eventos.
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Pocono: American Courage headlines weekly qualifiers
DRF | 1 year ago
Driver Matt Kakaley and trainer Travis Alexander, the early-season leaders at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, kept up their winning ways during the Wednesday qualifiers at the mountain oval, with Kakaley driving three winners for Alexander and th...
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Pocono: American Courage headlines weekly qualifiers
DRF | 1 year ago
Driver Matt Kakaley and trainer Travis Alexander, the early-season leaders at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, kept up their winning ways during the Wednesday qualifiers at the mountain oval, with Kakaley driving three winners for Alexander and th...
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Meadowlands: Haskell hired to enforce on-track policies
DRF | 1 year ago
In a continuing effort to provide the most competitive racing product possible during this season's "Championship Meet", The Meadowlands will employ USTA licensed and ROAP accredited Presiding Judge Lou Haskell to enforce Meadowlands on-track policies beginning on Friday, March 31.
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Meadowlands: Haskell hired to enforce on-track policies
DRF | 1 year ago
In a continuing effort to provide the most competitive racing product possible during this season's "Championship Meet", The Meadowlands will employ USTA licensed and ROAP accredited Presiding Judge Lou Haskell to enforce Meadowlands on-track policies beginning on Friday, March 31.
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Chop Chop gets a complete makeover in Lacombe Stakes
DRF | 1 year ago
Two flops in her last three starts are sending Chop Chop back to where she started – turf racing. The blinkers come off and Chop Chop races for the first time on Lasix while returning to turf in the $75,000 Allen “Black Cat” Lacombe Memorial Stakes on ...
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Chop Chop gets a complete makeover in Lacombe Stakes
DRF | 1 year ago
Two flops in her last three starts are sending Chop Chop back to where she started – turf racing. The blinkers come off and Chop Chop races for the first time on Lasix while returning to turf in the $75,000 Allen “Black Cat” Lacombe Memorial Stakes on ...
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Tapit Trice draws post 6 for Tampa Bay Derby
DRF | 1 year ago
Tapit Trice heads a field of 12 3-year-olds set to go Saturday in the lone Kentucky Derby qualifying race of the weekend, the Grade 3, $350,000 Tampa Bay Derby at Tampa Bay Downs.
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Tapit Trice draws post 6 for Tampa Bay Derby
DRF | 1 year ago
Tapit Trice heads a field of 12 3-year-olds set to go Saturday in the lone Kentucky Derby qualifying race of the weekend, the Grade 3, $350,000 Tampa Bay Derby at Tampa Bay Downs.
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Australia: Polygon gets fitted for class in Group 3 Kembla Grange Classic
DRF | 1 year ago
Where Polygon ranks in Australia will be better known after her debut in that country in the Group 3 Kembla Grange Classic for Southern Hemisphere 3-year-old fillies at a mile at Kembla Grange Racecourse on Thursday evening.
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