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Needing a better start going a shorter trip, Lady Ilze looks to breakthrough against eight older fillies and mares in the featured sixth race Friday at Churchill Downs. This contest, like her last-out fifth at Keeneland, is a second-level allowance, but has an $80,000 claiming option and is carded at one mile, a half-furlong shorter than the Keeneland race.
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The highly anticipated 3-year-old season debut of the undefeated Beau Jangles highlights this Saturday’s racing action at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
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Skeptical bettors are back in business Friday at Santa Anita. The $2 pick six begins with a $42,057 carryover, and cynics will consider a trio of short-price favorites to be vulnerable at the end of the card.
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Turfway shippers Talent Show and Purrfect Girl should be all the rage when they both debut for a new trainer in the nominal feature on the first Friday card of the Woodbine meet, a seven-furlong starter allowance on the synthetic with a purse of $40,700.
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Amanda Bailey wears many hats – horsewoman, trainer, wife and mother – but none of them exist separately. At the barn she runs alongside her husband, Leon Bailey, her days are an elaborate balancing act of daily barn chores, focusing on the horses, racing and traveling to race, and raising two children, all woven together in a lifestyle that rarely slows down.
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Greg Reinhart's analysis of the Thursday 5/7 card at Yonkers Raceway.
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The New York Racing Association will have a relatively low-key celebration to mark the closing of Aqueduct on its final weekend of racing June 27-28.
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Total wagering and average wagering per race were both up marginally at the recently completed Tampa Bay Downs meet in Oldsmar, Fla.
Betting on Thoroughbred races at U.S. racetracks rebounded into positive territory in April after months of decline, but the average per race dipped marginally, according to statistics released by Equibase on Tuesday.
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Hugh Bowman is hoping to halt Romantic Warrior’s Triple Crown bid when the Australian rider gets legged up on overseas raider Rousham Park in the HK$13 million G1 Standard Chartered Champions & Chater Cup (2400m) on 24 May at Sha Tin.
