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Nominations are now being accepted for the Fasig-Tipton summer selected horses of racing sale, to be held July 15 following the auction company’s July selected yearling sale at Newtown Paddocks in Lexington, Ky.

Emerald Downs will begin its Friday card 30 minutes early this week, at 6:15 p.m. Pacific, to accommodate an eight-race program that includes the first two Quarter Horse races of the meeting.

It will be like old times Friday when Gary Contessa sends out nine horses on the 10-race program at Belmont Park.

The talent Departing has shown in winning 4 of 5 career starts figures to make him the shortest price among the three newcomers joining the Triple Crown fray Saturday in the Grade 1, $1 million Preakness Stakes at Pimlico.

Rousing Sermon won for the third time in his career in an optional claimer at Santa Anita on April 14 and will be favored to win another optional claimer at Betfair Hollywood Park on Friday.

Patricia Cooksey is among eight retired female riders competing in Friday's Lady Legends for the Cure at Pimlico, a race designed to raise awareness of breast cancer.

The $50,000 Lady Slipper Stakes for Minnesota-bred fillies and mares is shaping up to be a rematch of last year’s Minnesota Distaff Sprint.

The Grade 3 Pimlico Special on Friday appears to be a tale of two horses. Last Gunfighter has been in the zone since last fall and seeks his sixth straight win. Richard’s Kid, meanwhile, is attempting to recapture some of his former glory as a multiple ...

With one eye on a big prize and the other on the future, trainer Bill Mott returns Emollient to dirt in Friday’s Grade 2, $500,000 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes at Pimlico.

Friday evening’s opening of the Canterbury Park meet begins the first full year of a cooperative marketing agreement between the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community and the track. The impact of the $75 million, 10-year agreement is being felt from the ...

Trainer Bob Tiller should be holding a strong hand in Friday’s Woodbine feature, when he runs Born to Be Queen and Tequilamockingbird in the six-furlong allowance for Ontario-sired 3-year-old fillies.

As Michelle Beadle's presence on NBC's Triple Crown telecast showed, traditionalists in racing often react harshly to outsiders.

If football legend Hornung can get lucky Saturday, he might find himself being asked to autograph quite a few racing programs after the Preakness. Hornung is a co-owner of Titletown Five, the cleverly named colt who will be ridden by Julien Leparoux ...

Popular jockey Rosie Napravnik has agreed to join the board of directors for the Old Friends Thoroughbred retirement group. The organization is based in Georgetown, Ky., with a satellite near Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Pat Parente and Danny Vella both saddled their first stakes winners of the season here last weekend. Parente struck Saturday with Black Hornet in the Queenston, and Vella’s success came with Alpha Bettor in Sunday’s $200,000 Eclipse.

Summer of Fun, third in last fall's Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, returned from a four-month layoff to win at Gulfstream Park on March 23, and takes an intermediate step on Friday at Pimlico in the $100,000 Hilltop Stakes for 3-year-old fillies.

Sensible Lady is back to defend her The Very One title Friday at Pimlico, and one thing seems sure: She will be a fraction of the 24-1 she was in this race last year.

Close It Out, who upset Bahamian Squall to capture the Jack Dudley Sprint Handicap here last fall, will top a field of 10 older sprinters in Saturday’s six-furlong Champali overnight stakes.

Tread, who is a nose from bringing a perfect record into the $100,000 Miss Preakness on Friday at Pimlico, has won two of her last three starts and will be making her stakes debut in the six-furlong race for 3-year-old fillies