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He really impressed me, so if ever there was a time to take a shot it's now. He's on his game,” Carroll said.

Trainer Kenny McPeek is hopeful that Lucky Seven Stable’s Rattle N Roll can put together a Breeders’ Cup worthy performance in Saturday’s Grade 1, $1 million Jockey Club Gold Cup, at Saratoga Race Course.  The 10-furlong test for 3-year-olds and up offers a “Win and You’re In” berth to the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Classic in November […]

Augustin Stable’s homebred Mouffy made a bold late rally to pass favored Lovely Princess in deep stretch to win Sunday’s $125,000 Ellis Park Turf.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Chad Brown will once again use the strength in numbers approach in Saturday’s Lake Placid Stakes at Saratoga Race Course. Seeking his record-extending fifth win in the Lake Placid, Brown will send out a quartet of contenders — half of the eight-horse field — in the Grade 2, $200,000 event for […]

Tail-male descendants of Northern Dancer once again accounted for the most U.S. graded-stakes wins with 184 (41.3% of the total), a figure exceeded only by the line’s 188 graded wins in 2013. Perennial runner-up Mr. Prospector recorded his highest total ever with 162 graded wins (36.4%). Because so many Northern Dancer-line graded-stakes winners are bred […]

In the great race toward sire success, the first thing that a freshman sire needs is to get a stakes winner on the board, and the only thing better is getting the winner of a graded stakes.

Me and My Shadow was full of run turning for home en route to victory in the $250,000 Bison City Stakes, for Canadian-foaled 3-year-old fillies Sunday at Woodbine.

Former Canadian classic winner Duke of Love dueled Surly Furious down the stretch and dug deep for Luis Contreras to prevail by three-quarters of length in the $200,000 West Virginia Governor's Stakes (G3) Sunday at Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack & Resort.

There were two horses in Saturday’s Whitney Stakes who were long overdue for a win, Zandon and White Abarrio, both of whom were winless since prevailing in G1 Derby preps in April of last year, Zandon in the Blue Grass and White Abarrio in the Florida Derby. Both had run well in the 15 intervening […]

We offered him as a yearling at what I believe was a very reasonable reserve ($250,000). But he didn’t get sold."