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Essential Quality is ready to roll in the Travers Stakes on Saturday.

Expert Pick of the Week: 2021 Travers Stakes at the Kentucky Derby. The 2021 Kentucky Derby is the 147th renewal of The Greatest Two Minutes in Sports. Live odds, betting, horse bios, travel info, tickets, news, and updates from Churchill Downs Race Track.

Letruska set to run Personal Ensign on Travers day at Saratoga Race Course.

SARATOGA SPRINGS — There are plenty of question marks for Crazy Beautiful heading into Saturday's Grade I Alabama at Saratoga Race Course.

Campbell: Give New Jersey Riding Crop Reform A Chance Sponsored by: When it comes to the New Jersey Racing Commission (NJRC) and their restrictive riding crop rules at Monmouth Park, horse people, jockeys, owners, bettors, turf writers, and anyone remotely interested in the future of this great sport needs to be supportive of what they are doing. Furthermore, lets give executive director Judith Nason, the benefit of the doubt that she and the commissioners on the regulatory agency are...

Preakness 146 at Pimlico Race Course on Saturday (May 15) in Baltimore, Maryland. The cute couple were just two of the major celebs in attendance for the second race of the Triple Crown series, which was won by Rombauer. Medina Spirit took third. Medina Spirit last week. Tyler and Camila enjoyed the race from the two-story glass chalet located next to the Winner’s Circle, and were also spotted dancing to to Major Lazer and placing bets on their favorite to win there. The event also invited ...

If the horse racing calendar were more like the college basketball schedule in a normal year, it would be like we were about to move into the second half of conference play. Familiar opponents are getting rematches, others are meeting for the first time and serious candidates will emerge for the big dance. In this case, it would be the November madness known as the Breeders’ Cup.   Just look at what the next few weeks will offer (possible and probable starters courtesy of Horse Racing Nation...

Slow start for Brown, but fast finish for Technical Analysis in Lake George | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0 SARATOGA SPRINGS — The quantity hasn’t been there for the Chad Brown barn so far at the 2021 Saratoga Race Course meet, with just two winners in the first five days of the meet. At least he got some quality on Friday, with a 1-2 finish, respectively, from Technical Analysis and Fluffy Socks in the Grade III Lake George. The Mechanicville native has won the Saratoga training title...

Monmouth Park Stewards Suspend Two Jockeys For Using Riding Crop During Race Sponsored by: Two jockeys received five-day suspensions and $500 fines for violating the New Jersey Racing Commissions riding crop rule stating the crop can only be used “when necessary to control the horse to avoid injury to the horse or rider.” The two cases are as different as night and day. Jockey Carlos Eduardo Lopez, who recently came to the United States from Uruguay, was sanctioned for his ride ab...

Sponsored by: Jockey Carlos Montalvo celebrating his 1,000th win in 2015 Jockey Carlos Montalvo is awaiting word from stewards at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, N.J., on whether he will be sanctioned for using his riding crop in a July 11 race en route to a three-length victory aboard M I Six in a maiden claiming event. The New Jersey Racing Commission adopted strict rules that went into effect this year stating that the riding crop “shall only be used when necessary to control the hor...