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Hector Diaz, Jr. Hits A Triple On Sunday At Suffolk Downs; Rubensilvera Wins $5,000 Jockey Challenge
Suffolk Downs Press Release East Boston, MA — SuffolkDowns hosted the final of four scheduled live racing and food truck festivalweekends of the year and concluded the 2018 season on Sundaywith aneleven-race card. Jockey Hector...
Read MoreGulfstream Jockeys Visit Joe Dimaggio Children’s Hospital
Gulfstream Press Release HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Jockeys and staff from Gulfstream Park visited children at Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital in nearby Hollywood Monday afternoon. Jockeys visited children in the play room before...
Read MoreCarmouche Sustains Hairline Leg Fracture In Spill
Kentucky Downs Press Release (Jennie Rees) FRANKLIN, Ky. (Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018) — Kendrick Carmouche sustained a hairline fracture of his right femur when he went down in a spill after his mount Chattel clipped heels in...
Read MoreGeroux Caps Big Day With Arklow
Kentucky Downs (Jennie Rees & Dick Downey) FRANKLIN, Ky. (Sept. 8, 2018) — Jockey Florent Geroux won two stakes and was second in two others on a day he capped with his third victory in Kentucky Downs’ Calumet Farm Kentucky...
Read MoreBravo! Proforma Takes Turf Sprint
Kentucky Downs Press Release (Jennie Rees & Dick Downey) In the fourth of five stakes races worth $2.7 million on Saturday’s card, Proforma pulled the upset in the $500,000, Grade 3 Kentucky Downs Turf Sprint Stakes...
Read MoreVan Dyke Guides Next Shares to Old Friends Victory
By Jennie Rees FRANKLIN, Ky. (Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018) — Next Shares, a horse that loves Santa Anita, proved on Thursday that he also loves Kentucky Downs, winning the $250,000 Old Friends Stakes under Drayden Van Dyke by 1...
Read MoreLanerie Gets Fifth Title with 30 Wins
Ellis Park Press Release HENDERSON, Ky. (Monday, Sept. 3, 2018) – Lanerie won Monday’s 10th race for older maidens aboard Marzo. He also had three seconds, including in the 12th race that concluded the meet. That race was...
Read MoreVan Dyke Rides Stellar Season to Meeting Title
Del Mar Press Release Drayden Van Dyke went from six behind in the rider standings to one in front with a Del Mar record-tying seven wins on Sunday, August 19, and tenaciously held on through the final 11 days of the meeting to...
Read MoreJockey Irad Ortiz, Jr. Captures Saratoga Meet Title
Saratoga Press Release Jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr. notched his second Angel Cordero, Jr. award for leading jockey as the 40-day meet concluded Monday, Labor Day, at the Spa. Ortiz, Jr. won his second consecutive individual meet...
Read MoreTerry’s Charm Cruises To Victory In Monday’s Featured Allowance To Give Jockey Jose Ferrer Four Winners On The Card
Monmouth Park Press Release Jockey Jose Ferrer put on exclamation point on what will soon be his first Monmouth Park riding title, guiding heavily-favored Terry’s Charm to an easy 5½-length victory in Monday’s $40,000 featured...
Read MoreJockey Title Race Remains Close
Del Mar Press Release Drayden won Wednesday’s first race and Flavien Prat answered with a victory in the second. That was it for winner’s circle visits by the top two in the jockey standings and Van Dyke retained a four-win lead...
Read MoreSmith, Brothers, Gluckson, McGee 2018 NTWAB Award Winners
By Tom Law for NTWAB (Press Release) Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith, who rode Triple Crown winner Justify, will be honored along with Donna Barton Brothers, Jim Gluckson and Marty McGee during the National Turf Writers And...
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