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Sponsored by: Among Keenelands offerings on Monday is American Bound (Hip 40), a 2-year-old filly by American Freedom who was an impressive winner on April 2 for trainer Joe Sharp Keeneland will conduct its innovative April Horses of Racing Age sale on Monday, April 26, beginning at 1 p.m. ET in Lexington, Ky. A total of 78 horses have been cataloged to the auction, which will be conducted as an integrated event with live auctioneers at Keeneland and with horses presented for sale bot...

As teacher morale hit bottom, these Alabama districts looked for ways to ease workload Updated Mar 17, 2021; Posted Mar 16, 2021 Vonda Ashley, a teacher in Talladega County, works with a student at Winterboro High School. She did not want to teach remotely, she said, and has worked in-person throughout the school year. Credit Talladega County Schools for AL.com. Facebook Share Teachers are exhausted. Last summer, Alabama schools were asked to provide in-person and remote options for learning,...

Rebel Stakes: Look at the field for Saturday’s Derby prep By HRN Staff Concert Tour is following American Pharoah’s path to the Kentucky Derby, using Saturday’s Rebel Stakes as a springboard, complete with a wet track. Trainer Bob Baffert ships Concert Tour from California to Arkansas. That is where the 2-for-2 Street Sense colt is expected to be one of the top two betting choices among the eight horses drawn Tuesday into the Rebel (G2), a virtual win-and-you’re-in prep for the ...

PEDULLA: When did you acquire your first horses? MOORE: Lone Star Park opened here in the late 90s. I claimed a horse the first year and started claiming a few here and there, having fun, and I’ve been in it since the late-90s. When Lone Star is open, I’m there all the time. PEDULLA: You had the good fortune to own Chamberlain Bridge. What was that experience like? MOORE: He’s here at my farm (in Fort Worth, Texas). He retired dead sound. The only thing he had was quarter cracks that woul...

Arrieta Making Big Impression In First Year At Oaklawn Sponsored by: Francisco Arrieta was second in the jockey stands going into Sundays card at Oaklawn Francisco Arrieta points his right index finger to the sky following each victory. The jockey said its not about finishing No. 1, but acknowledging the heavens. Arrieta had raised his right arm 19 times through Saturday, the 18th day of racing at Oaklawn in  Hot Springs, Ark. In a room full of newcomers at the 2021 meet, Arrieta has...

Sponsored by: Jockeys Trevor McCarthy and Katie Davis were married in December “The dumbest rule in racing.” Thats how attorney Bill Gotimer said TVG analysts have described New Yorks Commission Rule 4040.2 which reads: “No jockey, nor such jockeys spouse, parent, issue nor member of such jockeys household, shall be the owner of any race horse. All horses trained or ridden by a spouse, parent, issue or member of a jockeys household shall be coupled in the betting with any horse ...

Four-Time Local Riding Champion Napravnik Returns To Fair Grounds For New Vocations Day Sponsored by: Rosie Napravnik at the Thoroughbred Makeover On Saturday, February 27, retired jockey and horse advocate Rosie Napravnik will be on site at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots for “New Vocations Day at the Races.” A four-time local riding champion who was instrumental in the opening of the New Vocations facility in Covington, La., Napravnik will join host Joe Kristufek on the live fe...

Sponsored by: Trainer Todd Pletcher sending Fighting Force to Sam Houston to contest the $200,000 Texas Turf Mile Sam Houston Race Park will host its annual Houston Racing Festival on Sunday, January 31. A special post time of 1:45 pm (CT) has been set for the marquee day of the Houston, Texas, tracks 2021 Thoroughbred meet with six featured stakes. Two graded stakes will be contested, the Grade 3, $300,000 Houston Ladies Classic and the Grade 3, $200,000 John B. Connally Turf. Full...

By John Underwood / john@gulfcoastmedia.com ROBERTSDALE, Alabama — Cadets from Robertsdale and Elberta high schools celebrated their achievements and talked about the challenges of the past year as part of the annual “Pass-In-Review” conducted Wednesday, Dec. 9 at Robertsdale High School. Because of travel restrictions, the annual inspection, which would have been conducted by new NJROTC Area 8 Commander Michael Mullen, was instead conducted by Baldwin County Schools Superintendent Eddie ...