SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Book 'em Danno (Bucchero), the even-money morning line favorite for Saturday's GI, $500,000 Forego Stakes, will not run. Trainer Derek Ryan said Saturday morning that the 5-year-old gelding cast himself in his stall sometime Friday night. “What are you going to do?” Ryan said by phone. “That is the racing game

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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – In eight of Renegade (Into Mischief)'s nine career races, he has had the steady hands of jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr. guiding him. The band got broken up when Ortiz's Saratoga season was cut short when he was knocked out with a bruised left foot. That meant an audible had to be

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Trainer Librado Barocio has been suspended 45 days and fined $3,750 for possession of several syringes, hyperemic needles and vials of Polyglycan (a joint injection) resulting from an April search of his property at Santa Anita, according to a ruling posted on the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act's (HISA) website Thursday. According to the agreed

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The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority on Friday asked the United States Supreme Court to grant petitions arising from a case out of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and hold a Sixth Circuit petition. The Authority also told the nation's highest court that it should focus on one constitutional question involving the enforcement of

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Saratoga Maidens, presented by Keeneland In what was the second start of her career, Bittersweet Memory (The Factor–Candy Floss, by Twirling Candy) controlled the tempo and went all the way to graduate at the Spa on Friday afternoon. The NBS homebred made her first start going two turns over the turf upstate Aug. 1. That

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