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If the sheer number of allowance races on a given racing program is the criteria by which its quality is judged, well, the Friday card at Churchill Downs is a good one.
Marty McGeeJun 17, 2015
If the sheer number of allowance races on a given racing program is the criteria by which its quality is judged, well, the Friday card at Churchill Downs is a good one.
Garnet Barnsdale's analysis of the Thursday 6/18 card at Mohawk Racetrack.
You know you are having a great season when it is news when you don’t win. Just three times in the first 40 nights of the current Evangeline Downs stand have leading trainer Karl Broberg and leading jockey Colby Hernandez been shut out. Their individual numbers are staggering. When they team up, they are almost otherworldly.
Revenue for Betfair’s U.S. operations, including Television Games Network, increased 29 percent in fiscal year 2015, according to financial documents released by the closely held publicly traded company on Wednesday.
Trainer Jason Servis saddles Starship Pleasant (#3, ML 8-1) in Wednesday's seventh race at Belmont Park, a six-furlong claiming race on turf. Since Jan. 1, 2014, Servis is winning at a 27 percent clip when saddling a horse switching from route to sprint, for a return on investment of $3.66.
In his final morning of training at Churchill Downs during what has been an historic spring, American Pharoah was sent out for a quick one-mile jog early Wednesday over a sloppy racetrack.
A $575,000 Scat Daddy colt became the most expensive offering in the history of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. June 2-year-olds in training and horses of racing age sale on Tuesday to help drive an increased average during the opening session of the four-day auction.
Last weekend’s elimination winners Wiggle It Jiggleit, Wakizashi Hanover and In The Arsenal headline a field of 10 for the C$1 million Pepsi North America Cup on Saturday (June 20) at Mohawk Racetrack.
Single Me and Moonlit Dance give trainer Tony O’Sullivan two opportunities to win the C$479,000 Fan Hanover final, race 11 on Saturday’s Mohawk program. They will face-off against likely favorites JK She'salady and Sassa Hanover.
Stanley Mankin, a breeder, owner, and trainer who competed on the Nebraska circuit and in recent times had been racing at Canterbury, died on Saturday, according to friends. He was 72.