(Edited Del Mar Thoroughbred Club report)

DEL MAR, Calif. – Paul’s Hope, competitive in stakes company this summer at Hollywood Park, dropped into the allowance ranks Thursday to win the featured $70,000 Prudential Purse under jockey Joel Rosario.

Ashley Herriman
NYRA/Saratoga Race Course

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Sunday’s 25th running of the Grade 2, $150,000-added Fourstardave Handicap will bring together a diverse field of nine including accomplished older turf horses and rising younger stars.

John Scheinman
NYRA/Saratoga Race Course

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – When jockey Rajiv Maragh eased Seventh Street back into an ideal stalking position in the Grade 1 Ogden Phipps Handicap on June 13 at Belmont Park, he could not have expected his Godolphin Racing and Darley Stable teammates Sea Chanter and Music Note to charge up and force a furious pace.

After a withering four-way war — that also in

Jenny Kellner
NYRA/Saratoga Race Course

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Of all the qualities Backtalk displayed in his rousing victory in Thursday’s 95th running of the Grade 2, $150,000 Sanford Stakes at Saratoga Race Course, the one that impressed trainer Tom Amoss the most was his sheer determination.

(Edited Del Mar Thoroughbred Club report)

DEL MAR, Calif. – Eight equine athletes, including a filly, will put Dubai World Cup winner Well Armed to the test as he heads a field of nine in Sunday’s Grade 2, $250,000 San Diego Handicap at 1 1/16 miles on the main track.

Bill Mooney
Mountaineer Casino Racetrack & Casino

CHESTER, W.Va. – A heavy fog was lifting off the adjacent Ohio River as Mine That Bird went out for his regular morning gallop at Mountaineer Casino Racetrack & Resort on Thursday. There was, indeed, something majestic about the scene, as this year’s Kentucky Derby winner emerged from the mist, continuing his preparations for Saturday’s Grade 2, $750,000 West Virginia Derby.

(Keeneland Association release)

Lexington, Ky. (July 30, 2009) – Keeneland officials announced today that 5,189 yearlings have been cataloged for the 2009 September Yearling Sale, scheduled for Sept. 14-28.

(NTRA release)

Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird will make his first start since his third-place finish in the June 6 Belmont Stakes when the gelded son of Birdstone takes on five rivals in the Grade 2, $750,000 West Virginia Derby to be run at a mile and an eighth on the dirt at Mountaineer Park in Chester, W.V. Mike Smith, who rode Mine That Bird to a second-place finish behind Rachel Alexandra in the Preakness, will once again have…

(NTRA release)

Superfilly Rachel Alexandra, whose last three stars have consisted of a 20-length win against fillies in the Kentucky Oaks, a win over males in the Preakness, and a 19-length win back against fillies in the Mother Goose Stakes will try her male contemporaries once more in Sunday’s Grade 1, $1,250,000 Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, N.J. Thursday morning, Rachel Alexandra drew post six in a field of seven and was made the race’s 4-5 morning line…

Jenny Kellner
NYRA/Saratoga Race Course

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Two-year-old colts take center stage at Saratoga Race Course on Thursday as nine up-and-coming young thoroughbreds look to take the next step on their budding career paths in the 95th running of the Grade 2, $150,000 Sanford Stakes.