The court-approved $90-million bankruptcy sale of Hawthorne Race Course to a non-racing entity edged closer to a proposed closing after a Friday hearing that got continued to a later date, with humans and horses now increasingly likely to face an Aug. 31 deadline to vacate the property. Although no final sale order was posted to

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Edited Press Release Chestertown (Tapit) was named the recipient of the Down Broadway Award as New York's Retired Racehorse of the Year on New York Thoroughbred Aftercare Day Friday afternoon at Saratoga. The award is named in honor of the first horse to retire through the popular TAKE THE LEAD program back in 2013. The

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YO FANCY (f, 3, Yaupon–Clarendon Fancy, by Malibu Moon) debuted June 13 at Churchill Downs, and employed similar tactics to what she used here–settling far off the pace and making a huge run late to claim second behind a long gone winner. This time there would be no denying her. Sent off as the slimmest

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SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY — As he watched a set of horses exit his barn on the Saratoga backstretch, Hall of Fame trainer Mark Casse got to thinking. “How lucky was I to have Nitrogen be champion 3-year-old filly last year?” Casse said. “Would it be impossible to think we could have it two years in

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Saratoga Springs, N.Y. – With every lengthening stride, Fully Subscribed (Tiz the Law–Sweetbaby, by Candy Ride {Arg}) issued a strong statement to the older female route division as the 4-year-old was up in time to take the GII Shuvee Stakes at Saratoga Race Course on Friday afternoon. The OBS April buy for Seth Klarman proved

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