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Shes Pukka N won the Mares Open at Dover Downs on Wednesday night (Feb. 17). Driver Tony Morgan left alertly as opposed to taking back off the pace last week. That strategy was a winning one. Shes Pukka N left aggressively and relinquished the early lead to Infinite Symbol A at the quarter. Infinite Symbol N was able to control the fractions through splits of :27.2, :55.2 and 1:23. Soho Burning Love A, the 4-5 favourite, and driver Tim Tetrick moved off the pylons past the half from last. ...

Sponsored by: Saturdays Cross Country Pick 5, featuring action from Aqueduct Racetrack and Tampa Bay Downs, paid $2,714.25 for selecting all five winners for the 50-cent wager. The sequences total pool was $51,099. Aqueduct kicked off the wager when pacesetter Shamrocked had enough racing luck to hold off a late inside rally from Freudian Sip to secure a fifth lifetime victory in a six-furlong sprint for fillies and mares. The Michael Miceli trainee held on to win by a nose and return...

Blinkers, Added Distance Making The Difference For Withers Winner Risk Taking Sponsored by: Withers winner Risk Taking gets a post-race hug from jockey Eric Cancel Klaravich Stables Risk Taking earned a career-best 89 Beyer Speed Figure for his triumphant stakes debut in Saturdays Grade 3, $250,000 Withers at Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park, N.Y. Trained by Chad Brown, the son of Medaglia dOro broke well from post 5 and settled in sixth in between horses before inching his way clos...

Las Vegas There was a time not so long ago when the National Horseplayers Championship was an immovable fixture the week before the Super Bowl. “In hindsight I’m happy it wasn’t held this past weekend,” said Keith Chamblin, chief operating officer of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association. “We may have had some cancellations because of the storm in the northeast.” Weather is the least of the NTRA’s challenges in staging the nation’s biggest tournament for racehorse handica...

Capo Kane tops nine in Withers Feb 3, 2021 by James Scully/TwinSpires.com Jerome S. winner Capo Kane will seek his second consecutive Kentucky Derby qualifier when he lines up against eight challengers in Saturday’s $250,000 Withers S. (G3) at Aqueduct. The 1 1/8-mile Withers will award points on a 10-4-2-1 scale as part of the Road to the Kentucky Derby series. By 2007 Kentucky Derby hero Street Sense, Capo Kane posted a 6 1/4-length, wire-to-wire victory in the one-mile Jerome at Aqu...

Maryland Invader Hello Hot Rod Holds On Stubbornly In Jimmy Winkfield Sponsored by: Hello Hot Rod (inside) holds off Return the Ring to win the Jimmy Winkfield by a head Hello Hot Rod dug in gamely to best Return the Ring by a head in Sundays 37th renewal of the $100,000 Jimmy Winkfield, a seven-furlong sprint for sophomores at Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park, N.Y. Trained and co-owned by Brittany Russell with Dark Horse Racing, the Mosler colt made a victorious stakes debut while ru...

Sponsored by: Petes Play Call winning the Gravesend under Jorge Vargas Jr. Graded stakes action kicks off at Aqueduct Racetrack for 2021 with a field of five assembling for Saturdays 128th running of the Grade 3, $150,000 Toboggan for 4-year-olds and upward going seven furlongs over the main track. Trained by Rudy Rodriguez for owner Michael Dubb, the 8-year-old Petes Play Call was claimed for $62,500 out of a winning effort in an optional-claiming sprint on Nov. 27 at the Big A. He m...

Northern Express cruised to victory in the featured trot at Dover Downs Tuesday night (Jan. 26). Northern Express and Morairtime left alertly at the start of the race. Northern Express and driver Russell Foster gladly accepted the pocket trip from Morairtime and Jack Parker Jr. Morairtime reached the quarter in :28 and continued their journey to an identical :28 second quarter, reaching the half in :56. Nearing three-quarters, driver Russell Foster sensed that Morairtime was tiring over the "sl...

Taylor Enterline had no doubt that she was going home. The 21-year-old West Chester University student had never been arrested before, and she was no stranger to protesting.  The Manheim native had orchestrated walkouts after the February 2018 Parkland shooting in Florida. She had also interned with Lancaster Stand Up, an advocacy group "committed to taking action to protect the most vulnerable."  After the killing of George Floyd, she participated in protests throughout the summer of 2020. ...

Before the start of Saturday night’s card at The Meadowlands, driver Dexter Dunn was named the United States Harness Writers Association’s Driver of the Year for a second-consecutive season in a virtual Dan Patch Awards ceremony that the entire sport could view on the internet or at any simulcast venue. Then Dunn went out and showed why that considerable amount of hardware sits on his mantle. The 31-year-old New Zealand product, whose 131 wins during 2020 led all Big M drivers, registered f...