'TDN Rising Star' presented by Hagyard Mashallah (Maxfield) was back to something approaching her best when romping by seven lengths in an age-restricted, first-level Saratoga allowance on July 4 (96 Beyer), opening the door to bigger and loftier targets over the course of the next several weeks. Named a 'Rising Star' after dominating a six-furlong

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John Parisella, a top trainer in New York and California for decades and one of the sport's most colorful figures, passed away Friday July 3 at a Long Island hospital. According to Wikipedia, he was 81. The news was confirmed by family friend and fellow trainer Bruce Levine. Levine believes Parisella passed away as the

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Greatest Joy became freshman sire Greatest Honour's first winner with a professional stalk-and-pounce effort at Presque Isle Downs Monday. The longest shot on the board at 10-1 odds, she watched Castle Dark (Peace and Justice) set the early tempo through an opening quarter in :22.82 on an uncontested advantage. Responding when called on for a

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They may've outrun her early, but she was moving best of all late in this baby dash at Ellis Park. Scarlett Begonia (Life Is Good) rolled home in the stretch to break her maiden at first asking and become her sire's second 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard'. Well-supported at the windows to the tune

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Mary Rampellini, a long-time correspondent for the Daily Racing Form, passed away on Saturday, July 4, reported the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters on Monday. She was 53. According to DRF, the reporter and handicapper succumbed to complications from sepsis in a hospital in Grapevine, Texas. Rampellini, the daughter of horseman Ralph Rampellini, who managed

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