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June 17, 2020 8:14 PM
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June 17, 2020 8:11 PM
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All it takes is one glance from afar of the Belmont Park oval to understand why the Belmont Stakes (G1) is known as "The Test of the Champion."
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June 15, 2020 3:13 PM
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Delaware Park will open for its 83rd season of racing June 17 with a 10-race card topped by the $100,000 Obeah Stakes for fillies and mares.
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June 5, 2020 11:32 AM
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With many tracks closed for all or a portion of May due to the COVID-19 pandemic, handle and purses in the United States for the month were down sharply relative to the same month in 2019.
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June 4, 2020 9:29 AM
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June 4, 2020 9:24 AM
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The Illinois Racing Board has scheduled a special meeting for June 5 to reconsider how, when and where the 2020 Thoroughbred racing season might start; a season increasingly likely to go forward without the Arlington Million (G1T).
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June 2, 2020 12:49 PM
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Larry Collmus, the voice of NBC’s Triple Crown and Breeders’ Cup broadcasts, will join Michael Wrona in the announcer’s booth for Kentucky Downs’s six-day live race meet, the track announced Tuesday. “I’m excited about calling the races at Kentucky Downs and looking forward to getting back in action,” said Collmus, who was the New York
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June 1, 2020 4:40 PM
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May 22, 2020 9:47 AM
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Discussions are continuing between Ellis Park and Keeneland regarding the possibility of Keeneland conducting a short summer meet outside its customary race dates, said Bob Elliston, vice president of racing and sales for Keeneland.
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May 20, 2020 10:10 AM
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May 20, 2020 10:06 AM
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Blue Heaven Farm's Starship Jubilee took home the award for Canadian Horse of the Year and champion female turf horse May 19 during The Jockey Club of Canada's 45th annual Sovereign Awards ceremony.
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May 19, 2020 12:49 PM
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The Belmont Stakes, traditionally the last and longest leg of Thoroughbred racing’s Triple Crown, will be run June 20 and at the shortened distance of 1 1/8 miles around one turn, the New York Racing Association announced Tuesday. That means the Belmont – typically run at 1 1/2 miles five weeks after the Kentucky Derby – will be run 11 weeks before the Kentucky Derby (Sept. 5) and 15 weeks before the Preakness (Oct. 3).
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May 19, 2020 9:29 AM
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Finger Lakes Gaming & Racetrack announced May 18 that the Farmington, N.Y., track would open for training June 1.
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June 17, 2020 8:12 PM
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Arlington International Race Course and the Illinois Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association struck a last-minute contract June 17, opening the way to an abbreviated summer race meeting at the showcase Chicago-area track.
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June 15, 2020 3:16 PM
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Charles Town Races will reopen the first floor of its grandstand for live racing and simulcasting operations beginning June 22 at noon following an order made Sunday by West Virginia Governor Jim Justice allowing patrons at live sporting events starting on that date. Closed to racing spectators since March, Charles Town will also be reopening
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June 15, 2020 3:13 PM
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In a refreshing change for a lead-up to the Triple Crown marred with defections, majority owner Dean Reeves says Sole Volante will indeed run June 20 in the $1 million Belmont Stakes.
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June 5, 2020 11:30 AM
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Historical Horse Racing gaming facilities, which have been a boon to the racing industry in Kentucky by supplementing purses, will be allowed to reopen June 8, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said in his daily press conference June 4.
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June 4, 2020 9:25 AM
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The son of Pleasant Colony won the Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) and Dubai World Cup (G1). He was relocated to Turkey beginning with the 2015 breeding season and has sired multiple stakes winners there.
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June 2, 2020 12:51 PM
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June 2, 2020 12:48 PM
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Arrogate (Unbridled’s Song)–Bubbler, by Distorted Humor, the richest North American racehorse in history, was humanely euthanized Tuesday morning at Juddmonte Farms in Lexington, Kentucky, after suffering from an undetermined illness, Juddmonte Farms announced via press release. He was seven years old. “It is with great sadness that Juddmonte confirms that Arrogate was euthanized this morning,
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June 1, 2020 4:39 PM
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Enable is set to make her seasonal reappearance in the July 5 Coral-Eclipse Stakes (G1) at Sandown, trainer John Gosden revealed.
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May 22, 2020 9:43 AM
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The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame announced May 21 it will cancel the 2020 Hall of Fame induction ceremony scheduled for Aug. 7 and the Museum Ball as a result of the ongoing health and safety concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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May 20, 2020 10:08 AM
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May 19, 2020 12:52 PM
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The Grade 3 Indiana Derby, newly designated as a race earning points toward qualifying for the rescheduled Kentucky Derby, will be held July 8, a Wednesday, according to the track where the race is held.
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May 19, 2020 9:31 AM
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