Spendthrift Farm will add Grade I winners Baeza (McKinzie) and Further Ado (Gun Runner) to its stallion roster for the 2027 breeding season, according to a release from the stallion center late on Friday evening. A $1.2 million Keeneland September yearling, Baeza placed in both the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes at 3 before winning

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ELMONT, NY – As the field of 12 sprang from the gate on a sun-splashed late-summer afternoon, the sold-out crowd of 6,000 let out an enthusiastic cheer. They were here not just for a day at the races, but to witness racing history, the opening day of the new Belmont Park, a project that had

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A debut runner-up behind a 'TDN Rising Star' presented by Hagyard performance from Q B Rocket (Gun Runner) on Saratoga debut back on Aug. 15, Jeff Drown's Card Man (c, 2, Life Is Good–Dover Dreams, by Arrogate) opened up on his nine rivals at will in the final furlong of a one-mile Belmont maiden Friday

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A motion filed Wednesday by the Illinois Racing Board (IRB) in Hawthorne Racetrack's ongoing bankruptcy proceedings seeks to revoke the track's operational and wagering licenses. With that would go Hawthorne's authority to operate its network of approximately ten Off-Track-Betting (OTB) locations. “It is not possible for Debtor to carry on with its OTB and ADW

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Pegram, Watson and Weitman's Mystic Ride (Mystic Guide) became the fourth winner from the first crop of his freshman sire (by Ghostzapper) with a professional debut display in the Friday opener at Los Alamitos Race Course. A $45,000 short-yearling purchase at Keeneland January last year, the chestnut matured into a $425,000 KEESEP yearling eight months

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