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Letruska Retains No. 1 Position In NTRA Top Thoroughbred Poll Sponsored by: Letruska at Oaklawn St. George Stable's 5-year-old mare Letruska has retained the No. 1 position in the latest NTRA National Thoroughbred Poll following a quiet week in which none of the top rated horses were in action. As a result, the first eight places in the poll remained unchanged. Letruska, trained by Fausto Gutierrez, has won four of five starts this year, including the Grade 1 Apple Blossom Handicap at Oaklawn Park, the Grade 1 Ogden Phipps at Belmont Park, and the Grade 2 Fleur de Lis at Churchill D...

Letruska Ascends To The Top Of NTRA Thoroughbred Poll Sponsored by: Jose Ortiz celebrates Letruska's win in the G1 Ogden Phipps Stakes St. George Stable's 5-year-old mare Letruska has ascended to the No. 1 position in the latest NTRA National Thoroughbred Poll, ending the 14-week reign of Godolphin's 4-year-old Mystic Guide, who was defeated Saturday in Belmont's Grade 2 Suburban. Letruska, trained by Fausto Gutierrez, has won four of five starts this year. She made a big name for herself when defeating last year's older dirt female champion Monomoy Girl in the Grade 1 Apple Blossom...

Yaupon Gets First Win of 2021 in Lite The Fuse Stakes Sponsored by: Yaupon with jockey Ricardo Santana, Jr. wins the Lite the Fuse Stakes at Pimlico. Bill and Corinne Heiligbrodt's multiple graded-stakes winner Yaupon made a triumphant return to historic Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Md. Sunday, putting away pacesetting Chateau and turning back Laki – both Grade 3 winners – to snap a two-race losing streak in the $100,000 Lite the Fuse Stakes. The six-furlong Lite the Fuse for 3-year-olds and up, named for the two-time Grade 1Carter Handicap and Grade 2 Frank J. De Francis M...

Pick 6 Carryover For Sunday Card At Belmont Park Sponsored by: Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y. Sunday's Pick 6 will be bolstered by a $130,681 carryover as the multi-race wager went unsolved on Saturday at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y. The $1 Pick 6, implemented at the current 48-day Belmont spring/summer meet, returned $21,780 to bettors who selected 5-of-6 winners correctly. Saturday's Pick 6 sequence kicked off in Race 5 when longshot True Palace [No. 6, $37.60] lit up the tote board for a $30,000 tag for owner-trainer Darmindra Dharamjit. Luis Saez picked up his second win on the ca...

Max Player Outduels Mystic Guide To Take Suburban At Belmont Sponsored by: Max Player passes Mystic Guide in the waning strides of the Grade 2 Suburban Stakes at Belmont Park. Max Player's last win came 17 months ago in the Grade 3 Withers Stakes at Aqueduct. In Saturday's Grade 2 Suburban Stakes, the son of Honor Code finally returned to the winner's circle after his long absence, and, in the process, earned a spot in the starting gate for the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Classic at Del Mar Nov. 6. Sloppy after a deluge earlier in the day, the Belmont surface had been kinder to horses run...