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Lasix Will Be Allowed at Del Mar Meets

March 15, 2019
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All Tracks, Del Mar, GoldenGate, Lone Star Park, Los Alamitos

The Del Mar Thoroughbred Club will not ban Lasix at its two meets in 2019, track CEO Joe Harper told the Thoroughbred Daily News. The continued use of Lasix at all California tracks became a major issue after Santa Anita…

Santa Anita, What Next? The Possible Safety Measures to Reduce Fatalities

March 8, 2019
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All Tracks, Charles Town, Del Mar, Lone Star Park, Los Alamitos, Santa Anita Park

After two quiet days, the training track at Santa Anita re-opened Friday morning—an obvious relief to those trainers whose horses have been restricted to exercise around the barn. But at the forefront of many minds among those present at Santa…

Winter Sunset Looks to Remain Perfect in FL Oaks

March 8, 2019
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All Tracks, Charles Town, Del Mar, FairGrounds, Lone Star Park, Los Alamitos, Tampa Bay Downs

‘TDN Rising Star’ Winter Sunset (Tapit) hopes to keep her perfect record in tact and earn her first graded stakes victory in Saturday’s GIII Florida Oaks at Tampa Bay Downs. The gray ran them off their feet on debut at…

Pick View Taking Classic-leaning Colts into OBSMAR

March 7, 2019
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All Tracks, Belmont Park, Charles Town, Del Mar, Lone Star Park, Los Alamitos, Oaklawn Park, Sam Houston

Joe Pickerrell and Courtney Roberts have seen their business as Pick View LLC grow steadily since they started their Ocala-based operation in 2011, and they enter the 2019 2-year-old sales season off their strongest year yet as consignors. They’ll offer…

Pedigree Insights: Code of Honor

March 5, 2019
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All Tracks, Belmont Park, Charles Town, Del Mar, Lone Star Park, Los Alamitos

As we are all being encouraged to recycle as much as possible nowadays, perhaps you will forgive me for re-using a promotional piece I was asked to write for Lane’s End Farm in late-2014, after Frankel’s younger brother Noble Mission…

TDN Derby Top 12 for Mar. 5

March 4, 2019
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All Tracks, Charles Town, Del Mar, FairGrounds, Lone Star Park, Los Alamitos, Oaklawn Park, Santa Anita Park, Tampa Bay Downs

The GII Fountain of Youth S. this past Saturday was the only major GI Kentucky Derby prep of the weekend, but it produced five horses ranked within this week’s Top 12. This coming Saturday’s triple-header of preps at Santa Anita,…

Quality Road’s Roadster Back in a Big Way for Baffert

March 1, 2019
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All Tracks, Charles Town, Del Mar, Lone Star Park, Los Alamitos, Santa Anita Park

8th-Santa Anita, $57,342, Alw (NW1$X)/Opt. Clm ($80,000), 3-1, 3yo, 1m, 1:37.53, ft.ROADSTER (c, 3, Quality Road–Ghost Dancing {SW, $163,897}, by Silver Ghost) was a somewhat surprising second choice at 4-5 behind the 3-5 odds of Jan. 4 track-and-trip maiden winner…

Insights: Flor de La Mar Looks to Build on the Hype at Santa Anita

March 1, 2019
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All Tracks, Charles Town, Del Mar, Lone Star Park, Los Alamitos, Santa Anita Park

Sponsored by Alex Nichols Agency 8th-SA, $57K, Alw/OC ($80K), 3yo, f, 7f, post time: 7:00 p.m. ETFlor de la Mar (Tiznow) lived up to advanced billing to earn the ‘TDN Rising Star‘ nod for a facile five-length debut score Jan.…

Instagrand & Much Better Headed to the Gotham

March 1, 2019
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All Tracks, Charles Town, Del Mar, Lone Star Park, Los Alamitos, Santa Anita Park

‘TDN Rising Star’ Instagrand (Into Mischief) was originally scheduled to make his highly anticipated to return to action in the Mar. 9 GII San Felipe S. at his hometrack of Santa Anita, but has been re-routed to Aqueduct’s GIII Gotham…

Mar. 1 Insights: Pair of ‘Rising Stars’ Return on Opposite Coasts

February 28, 2019
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All Tracks, Charles Town, Del Mar, Lone Star Park, Los Alamitos, Santa Anita Park

MUCHO RETURNS AT GULFSTREAM Sponsored by Alex Nichols Agency by Christie DeBernardis 2nd-GP, $51K, Opt. Clm. ($75K), 3yo, 6f, 1:05 p.m. ‘TDN Rising Star’ MUCHO (Blame) makes his highly anticipated return to the races after receiving time off for an…