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The striking gray 6-year-old was installed as the 6-5 favorite to win the 1 1/8-mile Pegasus for the second year in a row.

Article by Impressive in defeat, by Geir Stabell: The Breeders’ Cup at Del Mar last month may have been the climax of the 2021 season in North America, but it gave us early indications of some of the horses that could feature prominently in 2022.

If the horse racing calendar were more like the college basketball schedule in a normal year, it would be like we were about to move into the second half of conference play. Familiar opponents are getting rematches, others are meeting for the first time and serious candidates will emerge for the big dance. In this case, it would be the November madness known as the Breeders’ Cup.   Just look at what the next few weeks will offer (possible and probable starters courtesy of Horse Racing Nation...

Slow start for Brown, but fast finish for Technical Analysis in Lake George | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0 SARATOGA SPRINGS — The quantity hasn’t been there for the Chad Brown barn so far at the 2021 Saratoga Race Course meet, with just two winners in the first five days of the meet. At least he got some quality on Friday, with a 1-2 finish, respectively, from Technical Analysis and Fluffy Socks in the Grade III Lake George. The Mechanicville native has won the Saratoga training title...

Letruska Retains Her Lead In NTRA Top Thoroughbred Poll Sponsored by: Letruska wins the Fleur de Lis Stakes at Churchill Downs. For the third consecutive week, St. George Stables 5-year-old mare Letruska has been voted No. 1 in the NTRA Top Thoroughbred Poll, while Klaravich Stables 4-year-old gelding Domestic Spending has risen to third place. Letruska, trained by Fausto Gutierrez, has Grade 1 victories in the Apple Blossom Handicap at Oaklawn Park and in the Ogden Phipps at Belmont ...

Domestic Spending Gives Chad Brown Record Seventh Manhattan Sponsored by: Flavien Prat and Domestic Spending are well clear at the wire in the Manhattan Back in 1926, the legendary songwriting team of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart wrote that “well turn Manhattan into an isle of joy.” That song, “Manhattan,” penned for the Broadway musical “Garrick Gaities,” was a big hit around the time a Thoroughbred trainer named James Rowe Sr. was recording the last of his six victori...

Sponsored by: Domestic Spending (outside) and Colonel Liam hit the wire together in the Turf Classic Trainer Chad Brown will be loaded for bear in the Grade 1, $750,000 Resorts World Casino Manhattan, with four of the 10 horses entered running under his banner in the 1 1/4-mile inner turf test for 4-year-olds and up on Saturday, Belmont Stakes Day, at Belmont Park. No stranger to success in the Manhattan, Brown will be looking for his third consecutive win – and seventh overall – ...

Rombauer Retains Tops Spot In NTRA 3-Year-Old Poll Sponsored by: Rombauer winning the Preakness John and Diane Fradkins Grade 1 Preakness Stakes winner Rombauer has retained the No. 1 ranking in the latest National Thoroughbred Racing Association Top Three-Year-Old Poll over last years 2-year-old champion and Kentucky Derby fourth-place finisher Essential Quality. There were no changes in the order of the top 10 horses from last week. Trained by Michael McCarthy, Rombauer, a bay son o...

Medina Spirit Drops To Fourth In NTRA Top 3-Year-Old Poll Sponsored by: Mandaloun & Medina Spirit in the stretch in Kentucky Derby 147 at Churchill Downs 05.01.21. Following the report of a failed drug test by race winner Medina Spirit after the Grade 1 Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve at Churchill Downs on May 1, there has been a shake up in the top five positions in the latest National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) Top Three-Year-Old Thoroughbred Poll. Juddmonte...

Medina Spirit Rises To No. 1 On NTRA Top 3-Year-Old Poll; Malathaat Jumps To Fifth Sponsored by: John Velazquez celebrates his fourth Kentucky Derby victory aboard Medina Spirit Following his stirring half-length victory in Saturdays Grade 1 147th Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve, Zedan Racing Stables Medina Spirit, has risen to No. 1 in this weeks National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) Top 3-Year-Old Thoroughbred Poll. Sent away at 12-1, Medina Spirit, a Florida-...