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Sponsored by: Hush of a Storm wins the John Battaglia Memorial at Turfway Park Joseph P. Morey Trusts $100,000 John Battaglia Memorial winner Hush of a Storm topped a roster of 63 horses that were nominated to the premiere race of Turfway Parks meet, the $250,000 Jeff Ruby Steaks (Grade 3). The Jeff Ruby Steaks, a Road to the Kentucky Derby Championship Series race, will be one of six stakes events carded on Saturday, March 27 at the Florence, Ky. oval. The 1 1/8-mile event over the n...

Sponsored by: A single winner cashed a ticket in Saturdays Cross Country Pick 5, which paid $108,475 for selecting all five victors for the 50-cent wager at races from Aqueduct in New York and Oaklawn in Arkansas. The sequences total pool was $127,630. Oaklawn started the action with the $500,000 Essex in Race 7 featuring six 4-year-olds and up competing at 1 1/16 miles. Silver Slate, the favorite, sat chilly off the pace before gaining command by the stretch and holding off R Rated S...

Guide to Saturdays two 2021 Kentucky Derby preps Guide to Saturdays two 2021 Kentucky Derby preps Photo: Liz Lamont / Eclipse Sportswire Moments after Greatest Honour drew off Jan. 30 to win the Holy Bull Stakes (G3), trainer Shug McGaughey remarked that “the pressure begins now.” That pressure continues Saturday at Gulfstream Park, where Greatest Honour leads a field of 10 into the $300,000 Fountain of Youth Stakes (G2). Post time for the 1 1/16-mile event is schedule...

Phantom Currency Earns First Stakes Victory, Wires Mac Diarmida Field Sponsored by: Goldencents gelding Phantom Currency wins the Mac Diarmida with Paco Lopez aboard Susan and Jim Hills Phantom Currency notched his first career stakes victory in front-running style, turning back favorite Tide of the Sea through the stretch for a one-length triumph in Saturdays $200,000 Mac Diarmida (G2) at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla. The 26 th running of the 1 3/8-mile Mac Diarmida for o...

Weekend Lineup: Trio Of Eclipse Award Winners Back In Action Sponsored by: Geroux flashes a smile at the wire of the Breeders Cup Distaff with Monomoy Girl Three Eclipse Award winners will be in action this weekend with reigning juvenile male champion Essential Quality – the top-ranked horse on the NTRA Top Three-Year-Old Thoroughbred Poll – headlining the Grade 3 Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn Park, champion 2-year-old filly Vequist making her seasonal bow in the Davona Dale Stakes ...

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 ...

Study Guide: 2021 John Battaglia Memorial Feb 23, 2021 J. Keeler Johnson The $100,000 John Battaglia Memorial at Turfway Park has long served as a local steppingstone toward the Jeff Ruby Steaks (G3), Turfways signature race. But Fridays renewal of the John Battaglia is the most significant to date—for the first time, the 1 1/16-mile race serves as a Road to the Kentucky Derby prep event awarding qualification points to the top four finishers on a 10-4-2-1 basis. Gretzky the Great Wins: ...

Casse has sophomores to beat in John Battaglia Memorial, Cincinnati Trophy Feb 22, 2021 Vance Hanson/Brisnet.com GRETZKY THE GREAT (Michael Burns Photography) Turfway Parks acquisition by Churchill Downs has given the northern Kentucky track additional point-scoring races on both the 2021 Road to the Kentucky Derby and Road to the Kentucky Oaks series, beginning with Fridays $100,000 John Battaglia Memorial and $65,000 Cincinnati Trophy. The Mark Casse-trained Gretzky the Great is the...

Essential Quality, Life Is Good Top Individual Choices In Third Kentucky Derby Future Wager Sponsored by: Godolphins Eclipse Award-winning colt Essential Quality and CHC Inc and WinStar Farms undefeated $100,000 Sham Stakes (Grade 3) winner Life Is Good were made the 8-1 individual morning line favorites in Pool 3 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager (“KDFW”), but the pari-mutuel field of “All Other 3-Year-Olds” is expected to be the overall choice in the three-day wager that be...

Sponsored by: Chesss Dream winning the Kittens Joy under Tyler Gaffalione at Gulfstream Park Michael Dubb, Steven Bouchey, Bethlehem Stables and Chester Bishops Chesss Dream got a ground-saving trip under Tyler Gaffalione and slipped through an opening along the rail in mid-stretch to upset Saturdays $100,000 Kittens Joy (G3) at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla. The ninth running of the Kittens Joy for 3-year-olds going a mile on the grass was the first of five graded-stakes w...