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Turfway Park Posts 34.6 Percent Handle Increase In December Despite Three Fewer Race Dates Sponsored by: Turfway Park Turfway Park in Florence, Ky. delivered positive results in wagering and average field size during its 13-day Holiday Meet, which wrapped up a five-week run on Dec. 31. Despite three fewer race dates compared to 2019, all-sources wagering at Turfway Park soared to $32.3 million, an $8.3 million jump and 34.6 percent increase from last years $24.0 million. The average d...

Smooth Like Strait, Field Pass Face Off In Mathis Brothers Mile Sponsored by: Smooth Like Strait and Umberto Rispoli, shown winning the Twilight Derby Trainer Michael McCarthys Smooth Like Strait and Mike Makers Field Pass headline Saturdays Grade 2, $200,000 Mathis Brothers Mile (turf), one of five graded stakes on Santa Anitas opening day card this Saturday which has attracted a competitive field of seven sophomores. A two-time graded winner, Smooth Like Strait comes off a narrow he...

Las Vegas If the Los Alamitos Futurity and Remington Springboard Mile were college basketball games, they would resemble what Jim Boeheim has scheduled for years at Syracuse. To Hall of Fame trainers Steve Asmussen and Bob Baffert their rivals must look like Colgate or Holy Cross or Niagara. How great would it be if Dick Vitale were yelling “Cupcake City” into a microphone as he called these Kentucky Derby points preps? They really have turned into the Baffert and Asmussen invitationals, ha...

Ft. Lauderdale: Maker Hoping Pair Earns Chance At Pegasus Turf, Channel Cat Returns From Layoff Sponsored by: Somelikeithotbrown took the Bernard Baruch field wire to wire under Tyler Gaffalione Upset winner of the $1 million Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational (G1) in January with Zulu Alpha, trainer Mike Maker will find out whether he has a candidate or two to defend his title next month when he sends out Somelikeithotbrown and Tide of the Sea in Saturdays $200,000 Fort Lauderdale (...

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