The biggest race of the year at Del Mar Race Track is Sunday with the Grade 1, $1,000,000 Pacific Classic Stakes. Post positions were drawn for the Pacific Classic on Wednesday evening and a pair of leading contenders -- Grade 1 winners Twirling Candy and Game on Dude -- each received a less-than-favorable outside draw in the 11-horse field.
The $500,000 West Virginia Breeders' Classic will once again highlight an all-stakes card when the Silver Anniversary edition of the West Virginia Breeders' Classics is held at Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races on October 15th. While official approval is still needed from the West Virginia Racing Commission, nine stakes, worth $1.345 million in total, are expected to comprise the Breeders' Classics card.
Six of the best fillies in the country will be battling for the win on Saturday in the $500,000 Alabama Stakes at Saratoga Race Course. Leading the way will be It's Tricky who has won five of her six lifetime starts. You can bet this race at OffTrackBetting.com and watch it on NBC television.
Four races have been slated to make up the opening leg of the fifth annual Drivers' Championship, to begin on Saturday (August 20) on closing night at Meadowlands Racetrack.
Returning to the site of some of the most successful events in its 27-year history, the 2012 Breeders' Cup World Championships will be held at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif., on Friday, Nov. 2 and Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012, Breeders' Cup Limited announced today at a press conference at LA Live.
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There were three straight longshot winners at Del Mar race track, including Spartan Jet ($61.60) in the sixth race on Saturday, and that has led to a Pick 6 carryover of $142,756.
With a race under his belt, Winchester will aim for his fourth Grade 1 victory when he competes on Saturday in Saratoga Race Course's $500,000 Sword Dancer Invitational Handicap at 1 1/2 miles on the turf.
August 12, 2011 -- New York -- Sagamore Farm's Millionreasonswhy returns to action off her victory in the Grade 2 Matron at Belmont Park, heading a promising field of six 2-year-old fillies Sunday in the 95th running of the Grade 2, $150,000 Adirondack Stakes at Saratoga Race Course.
August 9, 2011 -- The best day of horse racing in the state of Illinois is on Saturday at Arlington Park with three Grade 1 stakes races led by the Arlington Million. Ten horses were pre-entered for the race led by Gio Ponti, who could go off as the horse betting favorite. Also on Saturday at Arlington Park it will be the $750,000 Beverly D. Stakes and the $400,000 Secretariat Stakes.