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HRI Edited Release — Got Stormy set to pick up where she left off. Four years ago, trainer Mark Casse arrived for the Grade III
HRI STAFF EDIT — Del Mar concludes its 2019 Bing Crosby fall racing season with a stakes tripleheader Sunday, topped by a contest of national
By Hank Wesch — Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith has 215 Grade I stakes victories in his career, one short of tying the retired
Every so often you watch a horse race and for some reason he becomes “your horse.” That’s the case with Henley’s Joy (6-1) since he
Gulfstream Park is opening its 2019-20 winter season by taking the opposite approach of the most grating cliché of contemporary times. It is doing things
Jon Stettin beat me to the punch. Penciled in for today was a column catching up with stories that slipped through the cracks this week
Racing is facing an existential crisis. But as distressing and intolerable as the number of equine deaths is, the abolition of racing is, at least
Edited PRESS RELEASE — Del Mar patrons will have 17 different ways to wager during the track’s 15-day Bing Crosby Season meet beginning this coming
The Breeders’ Cup announced common pool wagering totals and on-track attendance figures Nov. 4 for the 2019 Breeders’ Cup World Championships, which took place at
Edited Tampa Bay Downs Press Release — Two-time Tampa Bay Downs stakes winner Imperial Hint will attempt to score his most significant victory Saturday in
By CHRISTINE OSER, for Bloodhorse.com — Race-day Lasix was the center of conversation at the Oct. 28 Kentucky Drug and Research Council meeting, and the
By JENNIE REES — Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott has won the Breeders’ Cup Distaff a record five times and the Breeders’ Cup Classic
By JENNIE REES — Trainers Dale Romans and Bob Baffert are good friends along with being frequent competitors in America’s top races for 2-year-olds and
By BOB EHALT for BLOODHOSE.COM The $300,000 Beldame Invitational Stakes (G2) has taken shape as one of those intriguing stakes within a race. At the
By BYRON KING for BLOODHORSE — Three months after the conclusion of a troubled winter/spring meet at Santa Anita Park marked by 30 equine fatalities from
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