SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Earlier this year, Pietro Moran accepted the Eclipse Award as North America's outstanding apprentice jockey of 2025. It was a humbling honor for the then 20-year-old from Kilkenny, Ireland. Friday, the baby-faced Moran will get yet another career highlight when he rides in his first-ever race at Saratoga Race Course. Moran

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When Stars and Stripes (Not This Time) edged out Parchment Party (Constitution), trainer Bill Mott collected the Exacta in what amounted to a thrilling edition of the Birdstone Stakes at Saratoga on Thursday. To cap the winner's circle presentation, Hall of Famer Nick Zito of Birdstone fame was on hand to present the hardware. This

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When Golden Gate Fields formally closed two years ago, public details surrounding what the future held for The Stronach Group-owned property were scant to none. Over the past few months, however, a picture has gradually formed filling in that gap. The non-profit Trust for Public Land has the option to purchase the property for $175

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Shoot It True (Munnings–To the Moon Alice, by Malibu Moon) was named a 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard,' when she won by 7 1/2 lengths at Keeneland in April of her juvenile year. Last summer at the Spa, the filly won an optional claimer against New York-breds in mid-July, then took on open company

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Angel Quiroz, the trainer at the center of a recent rash of suspicious winners after layoffs, was charged Thursday with an alleged vets' list medication violation for non-inhalation albuterol, a banned substance (when administered by any route other than inhalation), in a sample collected from the horse Bonita Rough on July 10 at Fair Hill

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