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Fisher said Snap Decision had surgery to repair an entrapped epiglottis following the Iroquois and is arriving at Thursday’s test in good order.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Coming off an impressive allowance victory earlier this summer at Saratoga Race Course, L’Imperator appears primed to take his next step in a successful transition from flat racing to the jump game in Wednesday’s Grade 1 Jonathan Sheppard Stakes at the Spa. Owned by Hudson River Farms and trained by Archibald […]

Noah And The Ark will carry a field-high 158 pounds as he attempts to double up on Grade 1 scores in Wednesday’s $150,000 Jonathan Sheppard

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Saturday’s steeplechasing doubleheader at the Iroquois in Nashville, and Willowdale Races some 800 miles away in Kennett Square, Pa., offered a feast for jumpers at every level of the sport.

Malcolm Denmark’s Scaramanga and Paul Townend led over the last in the $200,000 Calvin Houghland Iroquois (Grade 1). ©Tod Marks

At odds of 18/1, The Echo Boy won the two-mile three-furlong handicap chase under JJ Slevin at Kilbeggan on Friday evening. Owned by Fidelma Toole, the 10-year-old raced clear after the fourth-last fence and never saw another rival as he came home a six and a half-length winner from the Gordon Elliott-trained 7/2 favourite Arctic Ambition.

Thousands of people are expected to take to Percy Warner Park this weekend to watch some of the best horses and riders in the world compete, with one horse trying to make history.

Com to this year’s 82nd anniversary of the Iroquois Steeplechase on May 13 and come see for yourself one of Nashville’s finest natural resources.

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