Portland Meadows: Fewer dates, but higher purses as meet opens
More changes will greet Oregon racing fans and horsemen Sunday when Portland Meadows launches its new meeting with an eight-race card at 1:45 p.m. Pacific.
Nick RoussoJul 19, 2013
More changes will greet Oregon racing fans and horsemen Sunday when Portland Meadows launches its new meeting with an eight-race card at 1:45 p.m. Pacific.
Saratoga exotic plays for Saturday, June 20.
Stryker Phd, a fast-closing second at long odds in each of his past two starts, will take another run at his first career stakes victory when he starts Sunday in the $50,000 Mt. Rainier Handicap at Emerald Downs.
Daily Racing Form handicapper Dave Litfin gives his daily impressions of racing at Saratoga during the 2013 meet.
Over three-plus decades, Hollywood Park and Santa Anita have had a virtual parade of presidents and chief executives. Joe Harper, on the other hand, is the widely acknowledged one and only face of Del Mar anyone can truly recall.
Though he won’t have to deal with the remarkably consistent Ben’s Cat, Tightend Touchdown will face several other tough customers in Sunday’s $100,000 Fiddlers Patriot at 5 1/2 furlongs on turf.
Meandre, sixth in the Dubai World Cup behind Animal Kingdom in March, faces a stern test in an attempt to defend his title in Sunday’s Group 1 Grosser Preis Von Berlin at Hoppegarten Racecourse in Germany.
The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission has reached a settlement to nullify the disqualification of a filly from second place in a stakes race at Keeneland last year after the filly tested positive for an illegal amount of the muscle relaxant methocarbamol. The settlement is the second the commission approved this week as a result of an examination of state rules
Del vulnerable favorites, spot plays, and live longshots for Saturday July 20.