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After playing the role of bridesmaid in his first two appearances at Ellis Park, Injunction not only found his way into the Pea Patch’s winner’s circle Saturday, but he earned a couple career milestones along the way.

Ellis Park honors a true Tri-State titan with Saturday’s $70,000 R.A. “Cowboy” Jones Overnight Stakes.

Trainer Shea Stuart, in his first full summer racing in Kentucky, has a three-horse stable. But two of those horses are scheduled to run in stakes this weekend at the RUNHAPPY Meet at Ellis Park in Henderson, Ky.

The first time Necker Island raced at Ellis Park, he used his time at the Pea Patch to prove he deserved a chance to test himself against the best of his generation at the classic distance.

There are a range of emotions connections can experience while watching their horse in the stretch drive of a race, and All in Sync managed to elicit nearly all of them in the late stages of the $70,000 Dade Park Dash Overnight Stakes for 3-year-olds on Sunday at Ellis Park.

Big-name jockeys and owners and exiled trainers were outdone and outshone by a group of racing no-names who brought a storybook finish Saturday at Churchill Downs.

Joachim Cooder’s most recent album recasts cuts from banjo player Uncle Dave Macon for a new generation. Jane Cornwell follows the lauded multi-instrumentalist along the path to archival reinvention

New Boss Takes Pea Patch On Sloppy Ellis Park Track Sponsored by: New Boss wins the Pea Patch Stakes at Ellis Park. Trainer Bret Calhoun very much had misgivings when a storm blew in as his 3-year-old filly New Boss was in the paddock for Sundays $60,000 Pea Patch Overnight Stakes at the RUNHAPPY Meet at Ellis Park in Henderson, Ky. The turf, which started the day listed as “good” after rain showers in recent days, figured to get that much soggier by the time the field went to the...

UpdatedTue, May 18, 2021 at 10:29 pm ET Replies(8) Fires burning in the Bass River and Brendan T. Byrne state forests and dry, warm weather in the forecast for the coming days have prompted a ban on open burning by New Jersey officials. (New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection) NEW JERSEY — If you were planning to sit around your fire pit this weekend to relax, you may have to do it without flames. New Jersey officials plan to ban open burning in 11 counties until further notice in ...

N.J. forest fire is contained after burning more than 400 acres, officials say Updated 8:24 PM; Today 8:24 PM The New Jersey Forest Fire Service said it contained a fire in Brendan T. Byrne State Forest.New Jersey Forest Fire Service Facebook Share A wildfire that burned more than 400 acres in Burlington County was contained Tuesday, according to state fire officials. In an update Tuesday night, the forest fire service said officials were investigating what sparked the Pine Barrens wildfire, ...