SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – If he is going to win his eighth riding title at Saratoga Race Course, Irad Ortiz Jr. is going to have to be a closer. The perennial champion jockey at Saratoga has won the last four championships at the Spa, but the playing field has been leveled this year. The 33-year-old

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Picking up where she left off in her latest start in Louisville, Twirling Aces (Twirling Candy) went to the front and never looked back, winning by 4 1/4 lengths at Ellis Park on Thursday afternoon. A 2 3/4-length winner in a sales restricted race over six furlongs at Churchill Downs on June 3, she was

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Lindy Farms' Queen of Hawaii (Ire) (Kingman {GB}) split horses decisively deep inside the final furlong to defeat a stakes-quality field in her first start since finishing an even seventh in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf last Halloween. A Leopardstown maiden winner at second asking for Joseph O'Brien last July, the €250,000 Goffs

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Turf Paradise, which spent recent years mired in a never-ending cascade of controversy, is enjoying a quiet, productive summer of projects and improvements, according to reports from both the Arizona Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association (AZHBPA) and the Arizona Racing Commission (AZRC) during the commission's monthly meeting Thursday. “The Turf team is doing a wonderful

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The impeccably bred Soaring High (Curlin) marked her return to the winner's circle with a convincing score in Saratoga on Thursday. Seventh in her career bow sprinting at Churchill last September, she launched her 2026 campaign with a narrow victory in an 8 1/2-furlong test in Louisville on May 1. Let go at 10-1 going

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