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Away from the races since a narrow victory over Snap Decision in the Grade 1 Grand National at Far Hills last October which cemented her championship, The Mean Queen was also nominated to Thursday's G1 Lonesome Glory at Aqueduct, but opted for the Entenmann as a softer opportunity to ease back into competition. 

Bruton Street-US’s evergreen steeplechase specialist Snap Decision will return to racing over the hurdles in Wednesday’s Grade 1, $150,000 Jonathan Sheppard, a handicap for 4-year-olds and up traveling 2 3/8 miles at Saratoga Race Course.

Hot jockey Barry Foley continued his winning ways in the first of two NSA jump races on Monday at Colonial Downs in New Kent, Va.

Grade 1 Smithwick to kick off Saratoga's steeplechase season, while maidens, handicappers duel at Colonial Downs

Trainer Keri Brion will have three chances to secure a repeat victory in Wednesday’s Grade 1, $150,000 A.P. Smithwick Memorial for older horses traveling 2 1/16-miles on the hurdle at Saratoga Race Course.

National Steeplechase Association: Top hurdlers return to action in Virginia, while timber veterans square off in Maryland.

Dr. Erica Gaertner has been named the National Steeplechase Association’s first medical director, the first centralized liaison for rider health/safety

Brown has four entered in Friday’s Lake George | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0 SARATOGA SPRINGS — Trainer Chad Brown has won the Grade III Lake George for 3-year-old fillies in four of the last six years. If he doesn’t win it again in Friday’s featured stakes at Saratoga Race Course, it won’t be for lack of trying. Brown will saddle four of the 10 horses in what appears to be a very competitive field, with the Todd Pletcher-trained Jouster a slight favorite on the morning line, a...