The New York State Gaming Commission (NYSGC) on Friday voted unanimously to allow New York Racing Association (NYRA) tracks and Finger Lakes to increase the maximum ratio of purses to claiming prices from 2.8-to-1 to 3-to-1. In the interest of equine safety, that purse/price ratio has been closely monitored and controlled at the commission level

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Cavalli (Flightline) was made a 6-1 shot by the bettors for his debut race here. The 2-year-old was forwardly placed, but rank as he passed the grandstand. Having to check when he was squeezed between runners around the first turn, the colt settled down in fifth place as Ferrous (Nyquist) continued to show the way

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The GI Pegasus World Cup Invitational and Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational, presented by EquiTrack, and the GI EquiTrack Florida Derby top a 66-strong stakes schedule for the Championship Meet at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Florida, the track said in a release Friday afternoon. The Championship Meet will begin on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov.

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SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY – Backyard Heaven carried Ken Ramsey and his late wife Sarah's famed red-and-white silks to three career victories, led by a win in the GII Alysheba S. on Kentucky Oaks Day at Churchill Downs in 2018. The son of Tizway's name was inspired by the Ramsey family's summer home overlooking the Oklahoma

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'TDN Rising Star' presented by Hagyard Summer Starlet (City of Light), a convincing 4 3/4-length winner of the GI Spinaway Stakes in her second career start, will miss the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, having picked up an injury in the GI Darley Alcibiades Stakes on Oct. 2. Daily Racing Form's David Grening was first

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