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Roselba took control of the lead midway through the backstretch and then had just enough left to hold off the relentless stretch-long challenge from Bramble Bay to win Saturday’s $85,000 Pinot Grigio Handicap by a neck at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, N.J. Trained by Rory Huston and ridden by Ferrin…
Since trainer Tom Morley claimed Locally Owned in February, the 5-year-old gelding had seen the inside of the winner’s circle only once in five starts until Saturday, when the son of Distorted Humor made his rail trip in the 1 5/8-mile Grand Prix American Jockey Club Invitational Stakes a winning…
Christophe Clement’s English-bred filly La Dragontea got her first graded stakes win in the Grade 2 Canadian Stakes at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario. Ridden by Joel Rosario, the filly broke cleanly, sat just off the front running Our Secret Agent, and took over the lead in the stretch to…
Gilbert G. Campbell, co-owner with wife Marilyn, of Stonehedge Farm South near Williston, Fla,. died Thursday at Lowell General Hospital in Massachusetts, following a brief illness. Campbell was 91. Besides his wife Marilyn, he is survived by his son Gary Campbell who told Lowell Sun reporter, “Despite his remarkable success…
West Coast-based trainer Doug O’Neill has confirmed he will enter Team Merchants in the $400,000 Grade 3 Oklahoma Derby at Remington Park in Oklahoma City, Okla., on Sunday, Sept. 26, stakes coordinator Don Thompson has announced. O’Neill said Team Merchants should arrive in Oklahoma City via a FedEx jet from…
It was one Oklahoma Horse Racing Hall of Fame jockey moving past another into second place in the all-time wins category at Remington Park in Oklahoma City, Okla., when Luis Quinonez won the third race of the night aboard Ace Gilford. It gave Quinonez 1,420 wins here, one more than…
California Horse Racing Board commissioners (Board) voted during closed session Sept. 15 to dismiss a complaint against trainer Jeff Metz pertaining to a positive test last year for a bisphosphonate in one of the horses in his care, Camino de Estrella. The Board believed it would be unfair to punish…
Chiefswood Stables’ Weyburn, winner of the one-mile Grade 3 Gotham in March at Aqueduct Racetrack, breezed seven furlongs in 1:31.73 Friday on the Belmont training track in preparation for a start in next Saturday’s nine-furlong Grade 1 Pennsylvania Derby at Parx. Trained by Jimmy Jerkens, Friday’s breeze followed up on…
Following a second-place finish in the Grade 1 Bruce D on August 14 at Arlington Park, trainer Jack Sisterson will make an equipment change with Calumet Farm’s Tango Tango Tango, who will race with blinkers off in Saturday’s $1 million Jockey Club Derby Invitational at Belmont. The 12-furlong test for…
A sextet of expenses-paid berths in the Breeders’ Cup World Championships are up for grabs this weekend as the racing action heats up across the country. Graded stakes at Churchill Downs, Belmont Park, and Woodbine Racetrack are on the “Win and You’re In” list, along with a quartet of MATCH…
