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Baltas excited for star mares to round into form
Trainer Richard Baltas is not too concerned about a sluggish start to the Santa Anita winter meet – two wins from 37 starters, with four seconds and eight thirds.
Brad FreeFeb 11, 2026
Trainer Richard Baltas is not too concerned about a sluggish start to the Santa Anita winter meet – two wins from 37 starters, with four seconds and eight thirds.
An arbitrator appointed by the Horseracing Integrity and Welfare Unit has handed down a 24-year suspension and more than $300,000 in fines to a longtime Illinois veterinarian for nine violations that were described as a “flagrant disregard” for the sport’s medication rules.
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Off the board in separate stakes races, a pair of class droppers hope for better luck in the late double on Friday the 13th at Santa Anita.
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Greg Reinhart's analysis of the Thursday 2/12 card at Yonkers Raceway.
The Virginia Harness Horse Association (VHHA), which added a lucrative Sired Stakes initiative to their portfolio of incentive programs in 2022, announced that 15 stallions will be standing in the state for the 2026 breeding season.
David Aragona's TimeformUS Highlight Horse for Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026, at Aqueduct.
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Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania starts off its 2026 season with a 1 p.m. program on Saturday, February 14, and it is as solid a racing card as may have been presented during any of the previous sixty Pocono curtain-raisers.
The long-awaited arrival of a potential carryover in the Pick 4 sequence at MGM Yonkers Raceway is now a reality beginning this week.
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King Leatherbury, the Hall of Fame trainer who rose to prominence in the 1970s and dominated Maryland racing for three decades, died at his home on Tuesday at age 92. In a training career that spanned 64 years and 36,256 starts, Leatherbury won 6,508 races, the fifth most in the history of North American racing.
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Del Mar has made slight alterations to the stakes schedule for its summer meeting later this year, increasing the purse of its opening-day feature on July 17 – the Oceanside – to an all-time high of $150,000, the track announced Tuesday.