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“I thought he looked great,” Shug McGaughey said of his 2019 dual Grade 1 winner. “We’re just getting him started and he went off easy,
How many ways does racing want to reach into bettors’ pockets? The catalyst for this question is a fairly recent pitch on automated betting machines.
The 3-year-old championship is slipping away from Maximum Security. Even a victory in the Cigar Mile or Clark Handicap might not be enough to vault
NTRA Release — LEXINGTON, Ky. (October 7, 2019) – The dazzling effort Omaha Beach put forth to capture the Grade 1 Santa Anita Sprint Championship
Three groups determine the Eclipse championships: The National Turf Writers and Broadcasters, the National Thoroughbred Racing Association and the Daily Racing Form. Maybe this year
HRI Edited Release MIDNIGHT BISOU CLOSES THE GAP IN NTRA THOROUGHBRED POLL After further stamping her superiority over divisional foes this past weekend, leading distaffer
ELMONT, NY — Jockey Club Gold Cup day began slowly but for Mark and me it was a day like a thousand others that preceded
HRI Edited Release – JOCKEY CLUB GOLD CUP W.S. Farish’s Code of Honor was once again part of a dramatic ending that saw a stewards
A trio of familiar entities will be missing from Santa Anita when it inaugurates a new season Friday. Two are addition by subtraction. The other
EDITED RELEASE -SEP 23, 2019, There are no new faces in the upper Ten of the NTRA Top Thoroughbred Poll. With just over a month
To clarify to HRI readers something many voters aren’t even sure of, this is what my NTRA ballot for the Week of SEP 23 looked.
NTRA POLL–SEP 16, 2019— 1 BRICKS AND MORTAR (29) 5-H 5-5-0-0 363 1 2 MIDNIGHT BISOU (4) 4-F 6-6-0-0 316 2 3 MCKINZIE (4) 4-C
LAS VEGAS–Shug McGaughey has never been a fan of West Coast racing. This is true even when the Breeders’ Cup is at Santa Anita or
I’m about to commit Thoroughbred heresy and, in the process, incur the wrath of racing fans, Breeders’ Cup, and Santa Anita Park. But if the
Multiple Grade 1-winner Bricks and Mortar remains at #1 in the NTRA Poll with 37 first place votes but Midnight Bisou’s five first-place votes enabled
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