DAILY RACING FORM
Daily Racing Form: In Malibu, Omaha Beach Helps Smith To Record-Setting Day
ARCADIA, Calif. – Racing returned to Santa Anita on Saturday, and the grand Art Deco jewel was showing off. The San Gabriel Mountains were practically bursting out of the backstretch, the ridges to the east were covered in snow, and, after a year when the focus was frequently on policy and not racing itself, the best the sport has to offer was at long...
Daily Racing Form: Asmussen Gets Stay Of 30-Day Suspension For Acepromazine
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Steve Asmussen will receive a stay of a 30-day suspension recently handed down by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission for two positives for a regulated sedative while he appeals the penalty, according to the commission’s executive director.
Marc Guilfoil, the KHRC’s executive director, said on Wednesday morning that he informed Asmussen’s attorney during a phone call on Tuesday night that a stay...
Daily Racing Form: Global Campaign Fresh Against Tough Foes In Jim Dandy
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Stanley Hough is pretty honest when it comes to his assessment of Global Campaign entering Saturday’s Grade 2, $600,000...
Daily Racing Form: Saratoga Cancels Final Seven Races On Thursday Card
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The final seven races of Thursday’s 11-race card at Saratoga were canceled after unexpected heavy rains rendered the main track...
Daily Racing Form: Saratoga Race Course Cancels Saturday Card Due To Heat
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Due to a forecast that calls for excessive heat, Saturday’s 11-race card at Saratoga has been canceled, the New York...
Daily Racing Form: Rain-Dampened Early Spa Opener Sees Business Dip
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – It felt more like a Thursday than an opening day at Saratoga.
In reality, it was both. Not only was opening...
Daily Racing Form: Diana Looks Like Brown’s Race To Lose
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – If he ran just one of the triumvirate of Sistercharlie, Rushing Fall, and Homerique, trainer Chad Brown would have an...
Daily Racing Form: Several Promising Juveniles Missing Sanford
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Saturday’s Grade 3, $150,000 Sanford Stakes for 2-year-olds drew a field of only five. It wasn’t supposed to be that...
Daily Racing Form: Pletcher And O’Neill Each Have Two Fillies In Schuylerville
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Regardless of when the Saratoga meet starts, one constant of an opening-day card is Todd Pletcher will have at least...
Daily Racing Form Q&A: NYRA’s David O’Rourke
David O’Rourke was named New York Racing Association CEO and president on March 26 after serving that role on an interim basis for two...
Daily Racing Form: NYRA Dismisses Three Executives In Management Shake-Up
The New York Racing Association on Thursday fired three executives and added job titles to three others in a management shake-up that comes two...
$3.65 Million Curlin Colt Tops Completed 2-Year-Old Sales Season
The North American 2-year-old auction season has wrapped up, and the major summer race meetings at Del Mar and Saratoga, which traditionally unveil standout...
Daily Racing Form: Synthetic Tracks Back In Conversation, Along With Dickinson
The category is admittedly narrow, and the numbers do not exactly overwhelm, but if anyone had to name the most widely known trainer with...
Daily Racing Form: Sadler’s Joy Targeting Saratoga Return
ELMONT, N.Y. – Sadler’s Joy, winner of the Grade 1 Sword Dancer in 2017, has twice worked three furlongs this month at Belmont Park...