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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.
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Overall handle and average handle per-race at the recently concluded Oaklawn Park meet in Hot Springs, Ark., showed marginal gains compared to the previous meet. However, a shift in the racing week took its toll on field size.
The race-day administration of the diuretic Lasix will continue to be allowed for horses 3 years old and older running in non-graded stakes races following a much anticipated vote by the board of directors of the Horseracing Safety and Integrity Authority on April 24 that was announced on Tuesday morning.
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Here are the horses who caught Santa Anita correspondent Brad Free's eye during the week that was.
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Oak Grove Racing, Gaming & Hotel carried the fervor from a historic running of the Kentucky Derby into a jam-packed day of harness racing stakes on Monday (May 4) that saw a pair of track records established in the eliminations for the Oak Grove Trotting Oaks and Oak Grove Trotting Derby.
Yo Tillie (Todd McCarthy) emerged as the top performer from the seven divisions of the second leg of the Kentucky Sire Stakes (KYSS) on Monday at Oak Grove Racing, Gaming & Hotel with a track-record equaling 1:51 4/5 mile to win the lone $50,000 event for 4-year-old trotting mares.
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Coaches Corner and Silk Cloud A drew the coveted pole positions in the Grade 2 $478,000 MGM Borgata Pacing Series and Grade 2 $456,000 Ursula McIntyre Pacing Series finals on Friday night (May 8) at MGM Yonkers Raceway.
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Charles “Do Bronx” Oliveira da Silva, an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Champion and South American harness racing driver, will make his official United States pari-mutuel driving debut on Tuesday (May 5) in Race 13 at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania.
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Jockey Joel Rosario, the leading rider at Santa Anita at the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 winter-spring meetings, is returning to California and will begin riding at Santa Anita on Sunday.
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Matt Rose's analysis of the Tuesday 5/5 card at Yonkers Raceway.
