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Get a listing of the top three finishers from every track with vital information, including the winner’s Beyer Speed Figure, race fractions, and the running style of the winning horse.
DRF StaffApr 08, 2015
Get a listing of the top three finishers from every track with vital information, including the winner’s Beyer Speed Figure, race fractions, and the running style of the winning horse.
Garnet Barnsdale's analysis of the Thursday 4/9 card at Mohawk Racetrack.
Brewster Smith's analysis of the Thursday 4/9 card at Yonkers Raceway.
Far Right has a diverse cast of people working behind the scenes to bring out the best in the multiple stakes winner, who could start as the second choice to Southern California shipper American Pharoah in the Grade 1, $1 million Arkansas Derby on Saturday.
Speed is the game Thursday in the Grade 3, $300,000 Count Fleet Sprint Handicap, with starters Ivan Fallunovalot and Gentlemen’s Bet each having put up a 108 Beyer Figure during the Oaklawn meet.
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Dress For Success looks for three straight in the Weiss series at Mohegan Sun Pocono Downs.
Enchanting Lady is likely to start in the $200,000 Eight Belles Stakes at Churchill Downs on May 1 after winning the second stakes of her career in Sunday’s $77,050 Santa Paula Stakes
Earlier this year Texas racing lost its bid in the court for historical racing – the electronic parimutuel game that plays like a slot machine – but for one night at least, Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas, has hit a jackpot. For opening night on Thursday, riding at the track is Hall of Famer Russell Baze, the winningest jockey in North American racing history.
Jockey Joe Talamo will miss a week of riding after bruising a shoulder in a spill after the Santa Paula Stakes.
Midnight Hawk, who would have been a top contender in Saturday’s Grade 2, $600,000 Oaklawn Handicap, will miss the race with a foot issue, according to trainer Bob Baffert.