When The Big Beast ran second to Rock Fall in the Grade 1 Alfred G. Vanderbilt on Aug. 1, trainer Tony Dutrow thought he had The Big Beast as good as he could have him. Two weeks later, he thinks The Big Beast is even better.
The New York Racing Association announced Friday that all 50,000 paid admission tickets available for the Aug. 29 Travers card have been sold.
The field of candidates for the $1 million Pacific Classic at Del Mar on Aug. 22 began to shrink Friday.
Uncle Sigh, unraced since finishing 14th in the 2014 Kentucky Derby, returns to the races Sunday in a seven-furlong race restricted to New York-breds.
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Frosted, the Grade 1 Wood Memorial winner and runner-up in the Belmont Stakes and Jim Dandy, worked a slow half-mile in 51.45 seconds Friday morning over Saratoga’s main track in preparation for an expected start in the Grade 1 Travers Stakes on Aug. 29.
Apprentice jockey Cassidy Clerisse won her first Thoroughbred race with her first mount at Del Mar on I Buy Gold in Thursday’s fourth race.
The recent 2-year-old turf-maiden winners Arcature, Hollywood Don, and Imflatoutsweet are likely to resurface in $100,000 stakes on Labor Day weekend.
Triple Crown winner American Pharoah galloped 1 1/2 miles Friday at Del Mar, two days before a scheduled workout Sunday.
Trainer Shea Stuart will attempt to make some noise with his first Arapahoe Park starters on Sunday, when he sends out Texas Chrome in the $100,000 Gold Rush Futurity and Steelman Run in the $100,000 Arapahoe Classic.
