Six days before Hawthorne Race Course is scheduled to be sold in a $90-million liquidation as part of a restructuring of between $100 and $500 million in debt, the Office of the United States Trustee has stepped in to tell the judge in charge of the case that the owners of the defunct Chicago-area track

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Rider Javier Castellano, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2017, secured his 6,000th North American win Wednesday at Saratoga Race Course aboard Starship Lizzy (Central Banker) in Race 8, a New York-bred maiden claimer. The 3-year-old filly is trained by Michelle Nevin and owned by Starship Stables. After some bumping in the

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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The headliner, and rightfully so, from trainer Cherie DeVaux is Golden Tempo (Curlin). Winning the GI Kentucky Derby and GI Belmont Stakes will give you top billing on the marquee. He'll come into Saturday as the 5-2 morning-line favorite in the 157th running of the $1.25-million GI Travers Stakes, the centerpiece

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Reigning Horse of the Year Sovereignty (Into Mischief) has been installed as the 4-1 favorite in the first of two future wagers on this year's $7 million GI Longines Breeders' Cup Classic, according to a Wednesday release from the Breeders' Cup. Last year's Classic winner Forever Young (Jpn) (Real Steel {Jpn}) was tabbed as the

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It will be a big week for Mike Repole, who will be trying to win the GI Travers Stakes for the third time, with Renegade (Into Mischief), a horse he co-owns with Robert and Lawana Low. The Travers has been on his mind, but so have the many problems the sport has–issues that Repole will

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