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Jim Lawson, CEO of Woodbine Entertainment, shares his thoughts on this week's Friday Show on the subject of synthetic surfaces in horse racing.

Jersey Pearl will look to secure her first career stakes win in Saturday’s Grade 2, $250,000 Prioress at Saratoga

One horse owner -- who also has a veterinary degree -- says she's out after the high-profile, heart-wrenching breakdowns at Saratoga

When Credibility Matters

By Mike MacAdam/The Leader-Herald SARATOGA SPRINGS — “I don’t think I can come back here.” This wasn’t somebody making his first visit to Saratoga Race Course. It wasn’t a young parent with kids, who had to watch New York Thunder stumbling on the stump of his broken left front leg on Saturd

When Credibility Matters

When Credibility Matters

SARATOGA SPRINGS — For the second Grade I stakes race being televised to a national audience this meet, tragedy ruined the mood of the day. And in eerily similar circumstances.Undefeated New York Thunder was cruising toward a sure victory in the Grade I, $500,000 H. Allen Jerkens Memorial for 3-year

When Credibility Matters

By Mike MacAdam/The Leader-Herald SARATOGA SPRINGS — Arcangelo’s responsibilities at trainer Jena Antonucci’s barn at Saratoga Race Course on Sunday amounted to being walked out of his stall and posing for photographers. He crushed it. His responsibilities on the racetrack before the Breede