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Rudy Sanchez-Salomon will continue chasing the dream when the owner-trainer sends out claimer-turned-multiple stakes winner Shake Em Loose

Happy 21st birthday to Smarty Jones, a chestnut racehorse born Feb. 28, 2001, on a small farm in Pennsylvania.

Happy 21st birthday to Smarty Jones, a chestnut racehorse born Feb. 28, 2001, on a small farm in Pennsylvania.

Stronach Stables homebred Green Light Go brings rejuvenated form to Saturday’s $125,000 Stymie, a one-turn mile for older horses at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Our Delaware Park Handicappers' Notebook -- featuring races and horses to watch, track bias info, jock/trainer of the week, and more - returns for 2021.

Midnight Obsession won an allowance race at Belmont Park. Photo by NYRA. Frank Vespe July 2, 2021 Trainers usually try to keep the better horses in their barn apart, sending this one to a race here and that one to a race there. There are practical reasons for those decisions, of course, not the least of which is keeping the owners happy. John Servis is set to send out two in Saturday’s Grade 3, $300,000 Delaware Oaks: Midnight Obsession, who’s 4-1 on the morning line and races in the colors...

Mischevious Alex Will Stretch Out Against Knicks Go In Met Mile Sponsored by: Attaboy: Irad Ortiz gives Mischevious Alex a congratulatory pat on the neck after winning the Grade 1 Carter Cash is King and LC Racings Mischevious Alex will look to build on his already impressive ledger in Saturdays stallion-making Grade 1, $1 million Hill N Dale Metropolitan Handicap, a one-turn mile for 3-year-olds and up on Belmont Stakes Day. The Belmont Stakes Racing Festival runs from Thursday throu...

Old Friends Pensioner Slim Shadey Euthanized With Leg Fracture Following Colic Surgery Sponsored by: Slim Shadey arrives at Old Friends in 2019 Two-time graded-stakes winner Slim Shadey has died. The 13-year-old gelding had been a pensioner at Old Friends, the Thoroughbred Retirement farm based in Georgetown, Ky., since 2019. Old Friends attending veterinary, Dr. Bryan Waldridge, released this statement: “Slim Shadey showed signs of colic and was referred for further diagnostics and...

Mischevious Alex Breaks Through With Grade 1 Performance In Carter Handicap Sponsored by: Into Mischief 4-year-old Mischevious Alex scores his first Grade 1 win in the Carter Handicap Returning to New York a little more than a year after his resounding victory in the Grade 3 Gotham at Aqueduct Racetrack last March, Mischevious Alex became a Grade 1 winner on Saturday at the Big A, taking the $300,000 Carter Handicap with ease as the odds-on favorite under Irad Ortiz, Jr. A compact-but...

Sponsored by: Mischevious Alex and Irad Ortiz Jr. win the Gulfstream Park Sprint Stakes Cash is King and LC Racings Mischevious Alex will look to break through at the highest level in Saturdays Grade 1, $300,000 Carter Handicap, a seven-furlong sprint for older horses at Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park, N.Y. The historic Carter is the first Grade 1 of 2021 on the NYRA circuit as part of a loaded five-stakes card headlined by the Grade 2, $750,000 Wood Memorial presented by Resorts Wo...