Holmby and Sea's No Joke enter the $100,000 Desi Arnaz Stakes on Saturday at Del Mar with vastly different levels of experience, but the Bob Baffert trainees make a potent pair in the short field of five juvenile fillies.
In hindsight, trainer Tom Morley wishes he would have run his filly More Champagne against the boys in the Grade 3 Futurity last month instead of the Grade 3 Matron. Faced with similar options this weekend at Belmont Park, Morley has opted to send More Champagne against the boys in Saturday's $175,000 Awad Stakes rather than against the fillies in the $175,000 Stewart Manor.
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Longtime Daily Racing Form cartoonist Pierre Bellocq, familiarly known as "Peb," died Thursday morning following a brief illness at the Princeton, New Jersey Medical Center just 13 days short of his 100th birthday.
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Aside from winning the 2023 Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint, Nobals may be best known for taking the last two editions of the Grade 2 Kennedy Road at Woodbine. The popular 7-year-old usually fires big when venturing north of the border and should be well backed in Saturday's renewal of the Kennedy Road, a six-furlong Tapeta sprint worth $200,000.
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Luke Middlebrook's Hong Kong selections for Saturday, Nov. 14, 2026
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There are few major prizes that elude William Buick, but the LONGINES International Jockeys’ Championship (IJC) at Happy Valley is one of them.
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Annie Stoebe never doubted Diabolic Hill, and after watching him capture the Grade 1 Breeders Crown for 3-year-old male trotters last month at Eldorado Scioto Downs, the colt's trainer and co-owner had one word to describe the outcome.
Legacy Racing of Delaware's homebred Cruising Mist took full advantage of a pocket trip and got the better of Harrington series champ Salty Beaches in the second of two $20,000 first-round Delaware Standardbred Breeders' Fund (DSBF) preliminary events for 2-year-old pacing fillies on Wednesday (Nov. 11) at Bally's Dover.
No tickets had five-of-five in the Pick 5 sequence on Wednesday night (November 11) at MGM Yonkers Raceway, resulting in a $6,915.04 carryover and a $30,000 pool in the wager on Thursday night (November 12).
