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- Bing Crosby Carries Breeders' Cup Implications (7/26/2024) - The July 27 Bing Crosby Stakes (G1) is a Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series event and provides a start over the host track for the World Championships.
- Finalists Announced for 2023 Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award (7/26/2024) - A trio of finalists have been selected from an incredibly strong slate of entries for the 19th annual Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award.
- Fixed Odds, CAWs in Focus on Day Two of HBPA Conference (7/26/2024) - The second day of the National HBPA Conference at Prairie Meadows focused on computer-assisted wagering’s escalating presence in racetrack pools and the emergence of horse racing as a fixed-odds betting product on sportsbooks.
- HISA: Second-Quarter Fatalities Drop Under ADMC Program (7/26/2024) - A 2024 Second Quarter Metrics Report released by HISA, covering racing from April 1-June 30, exhibits a continued downward trajectory of the rate of racing-related equine fatalities in the industry since the HISA became fully operational.
- Motion Mulls Options for Trikari, The Grey Wizard (7/26/2024) - Graham Motion has two potential targets in mind for grade 1 winner Trikari while his other trainee The Grey Wizard prepares for a fall campaign potentially ending in the Melbourne Cup (G1).
- Mandatory Payout for Prairie Meadows Jackpot Pick 5 (7/26/2024) - Prairie Meadows Racetrack in Altoona, Iowa, will hold a mandatory payout of the Pick 5 jackpot July 29.
- MLB's Werth Experiences Haskell Stakes in ABR Video (7/26/2024) - Jayson Werth enjoyed a 15-year career in major league baseball. Such an experience would seem difficult to top, but Werth says he has found something to match those baseball highlights: being one of the owners of dual grade 1 winner Dornoch.
- World Record Blazes to Victory in Spa's Amsterdam (7/26/2024) - The speedy World Record may not have matched his name, but he surely lived up to the expectations of his connections in notching his initial graded stakes win.
- International Gold Cup Adds Grade 1 Race to NSA Circuit (7/26/2024) - The Virginia Gold Cup Association revealed plans for its second new grade 1 race of the year, to be run as part of the $410,000 card at the International Gold Cup races taking place at Great Meadow in The Plains, Va., Oct. 26.
- Preakness Winner Rombauer to Shuttle to Chile (7/26/2024) - The stallion will stand at Haras Porta Pia in Chile. The 6-year-old son of Twirling Candy stood his first Northern Hemisphere season this year for an advertised fee of $6,000 at War Horse Place in Kentucky.
- TRF Announces Stallions for Second Chances Auction (7/26/2024) - This exclusive online auction features authentic halters from four legendary stallions: Uncle Mo, Tapit, Into Mischief, and Gun Runner. It runs from July 27-Aug. 3 at 8:30 p.m. ET.
- Grade 1 Winner Timberlake to Target Jerkens (7/26/2024) - Elliott Walden, CEO, president, and racing manager of WinStar Farm, said grade 1 winner Timberlake will be pointed to the seven-furlong H. Allen Jerkens Memorial Stakes (G1) on the Aug. 24 Travers Stakes (G1) undercard at Saratoga Race Course.
- Apprentice Elliott Wins Regret Stakes on 34-1 Reclusive (7/26/2024) - It didn’t take 18-year-old apprentice Chris Elliott long to win a stakes race—the first of his career—since moving his tack from Lone Star Park to Monmouth Park last week. He guided Reclusive to upset the July 26 Regret Stakes at Monmouth Park.
- The Chosen Vron in Tune for Crosby Encore (7/26/2024) - On Racing
Blue Point 1.5-Million Half To Battaash Debuts In The Crocker Bulteel (7/26/2024) - Observations on the European Racing Scene turns the spotlight on the best European races of the day, highlighting well-pedigreed horses early in their careers, horses of note returning to action and young runners that achieved notable results in the sales ring. Saturday’s Observations features a 1.5-million half to crack sprinter Battaash (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}).…
Saratoga Notebook, Presented by NYRA Bets: Brion Proves She is More Than Just a Jump Trainer (7/26/2024) - SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – In her days as a Thoroughbred horse trainer, Keri Brion has been associated mainly with steeplechase runners. And she has no problem with that. The jump game has been good to her. Since opening her own stable, the former assistant to the late Hall of Famer Jonathan Sheppard has trained an…
Three Grade I Winners Among ‘Dandy’ Half-Dozen (7/26/2024) - Trainer Chad Brown has long stated that a victory in the GI Travers S., not far from home in Mechanicville, would be one of the crowning moments of what will be a Hall of Fame career. ‘TDN Rising Star‘ Sierra Leone (Gun Runner) is the barn’s main hope for the centerpiece of the Saratoga meeting…