Delaunay seeks to get his stellar career back on track in Saturday night’s $75,000 Ed Skinner Memorial, a six-furlong stakes sprint. The race, named for the locally based state lawmaker who played a primary role in the development of Prairie Meadows in the late 1980s, drew six capable geldings.
Deceptive Vision will try to make amends in Saturday’s $200,000 Nassau, a Grade 2 event for fillies and mares that is the first turf stakes of the Woodbine meet.
Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner American Pharoah began his bid toward the June 6 Belmont Stakes with a once-around jog Thursday morning at Churchill Downs, a routine bit of exercise that took a mere seven minutes to complete.
Among the most exciting if not the most unexpected performers of the young season has to be Wiggle It Jiggleit, the son of Mr. Wiggles trained by Clyde Francis for George Teague, Jr. and driven by George’s son, Montrell. Perhaps we should see just who he is genetically.
Despite being the longest shot in the six-horse field at 15-1, Sea Shadow was clearly best in the stretch of the $50,000 Winter Melody Stakes at Delaware Park on Wednesday, drawing away to win by 4 3/4 lengths.
Profile of jockey Victor Espinoza.
The National Thoroughbred Racing Association is urging Treasury to change the calculation that determines what money is subject to withholding. The modification would be an infinitesimal item in the gigantic mass of U.S. tax regulations, but it would be a significant benefit to the sport.
Jimmy Takter looks at Sunday’s $150,000 Maxie Lee Memorial Invitational for older trotters at Harrah’s Philadelphia and can’t help but be impressed. Takter’s Father Patrick – who on Sunday makes his debut as a 4-year-old – is among four trotters entered in the Maxie Lee with Dan Patch Awards on their resumes.
Derick Giwner's analysis of the Friday 5/22 card at The Meadowlands.
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