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With three Breeders’ Cup Challenge races this weekend, Del Mar will be in the spotlight. Two of those three races will be on the main track, which for the first time since 2006 offers a dirt surface after an eight-year run for Polytrack. While the track record of those two main-track races, the TVG Pacific Classic Stakes (gr. I) and Pat ...

  By TimeformUS West Coast Analyst Justin Finch >>Go to the TimeformUS PPs for the Pacific Classic | Post Time 6:10 PDT SaturdayThe Grade 1, $1,000,000 Pacific Classic has a field of 10 horses going a mile and 1/4 on the main track. The field is led by Beholder, the great mare with the 3.6-million dollar bankroll, who is attempting to ...

By J. Keeler Johnson (''Keelerman'') Twitter: @J_Keelerman Two weeks ago, the best older males on the East Coast squared off in a battle for supremacy in the Whitney Stakes (gr. I) at Saratoga. This Saturday, the best older males on the West Coast will engage in a similar battle in the $1,000,000 TVG Pacific Classic (gr. I), but this race ...

In the mid-eighties the great Arab sheikhs invaded Kentucky. They came to the sales, bringing with them crusty old British bloodstock advisers, great determination, and untold millions of dollars with which to do damage. They were loaded for bear. The three Maktoum brothers from the United Arab Emirates, along with Saudi Arabia's Prince Khalid ...

Former British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli once said, “You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.” The nation that is American Pharoah currently rules the racing world and perhaps even the sports world and beyond. It has grown from strength to strength into a cultural phenomenon with loyal subjects from coast to ...

The Fasig-Tipton Saratoga select yearling sale is a fickle beast. Predicting how buyers will embrace a relatively small group of handsome, well-bred yearlings is dicier than predicting the winner of the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) in January. With the benefit of hindsight, however, several signs indicated this year's edition ...

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This column is about Titans of the Turf, both equine and human. It is about Dr. Fager and Damascus and John Nerud and Frank Whiteley, a portion of which I ran several years ago, with a great deal more added. I have never seen a trainer take more satisfaction in winning a race than John Nerud did after Dr. Fager defeated his arch rival Damascus ...

    >>Go to the TimeformUS PPs for the Arlington Million | Post Time 5:48 CDT Saturday   By TimeformUS Analyst Mike Beer As usual, Europe is well-represented in the 2015 Grade 1 Arlington Million.  Five of the 13 entrants in Saturday's 33rd running made their last start overseas, though they are far ...

By J. Keeler Johnson (''Keelerman'') It’s hard to beat August as a month for spectacular horse racing! After two great weekends to start the month, the third weekend of August brings nine graded stakes races across the U.S. and Canada, including five at Arlington Park. Leading the way is the $1 million Arlington Million (gr. I), one of the most ...