NBC Sports will present live coverage from Kentucky Downs of the $1.75-million GI Never Say Die Ladies Turf Sprint Saturday at 4 p.m. ET. Saturday's show will also include the ninth running of the $750,000 Keeneland Sales Juvenile Sprint and the $250,000 Keeneland September Fillies. NBC Sports' coverage will feature host Britney Eurton, analysts Randy

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To quote the English author Charles Dickens, from his 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” I choose to believe we are currently living in the golden age of American racing. The purse structure we are currently experiencing is at an all-time high.

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Six days before Hawthorne Race Course is scheduled to be sold in a $90-million liquidation as part of a restructuring of between $100 and $500 million in debt, the Office of the United States Trustee has stepped in to tell the judge in charge of the case that the owners of the defunct Chicago-area track

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Rider Javier Castellano, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2017, secured his 6,000th North American win Wednesday at Saratoga Race Course aboard Starship Lizzy (Central Banker) in Race 8, a New York-bred maiden claimer. The 3-year-old filly is trained by Michelle Nevin and owned by Starship Stables. After some bumping in the

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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The headliner, and rightfully so, from trainer Cherie DeVaux is Golden Tempo (Curlin). Winning the GI Kentucky Derby and GI Belmont Stakes will give you top billing on the marquee. He'll come into Saturday as the 5-2 morning-line favorite in the 157th running of the $1.25-million GI Travers Stakes, the centerpiece

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