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Trainer Todd Pletcher has had his success through the years at Hawthorne and he was successful once again this year when Joe Vann was victorious in the Grade 3, $300,000 TVG Illinois Derby at Hawthorne. Owned by Zayat Stables, LLC and ridden by Florent Geroux, the three-year-old Silver Deputy colt s...Read More

The Illinois Derby serves as the only real prep for the Kentucky Derby in the state, but this year a purse decrease has left the field a little light in the big name department. Initially the purse for the Illinois Derby was going to be $250,000, a decrease of 50% from recent runnings. It was howeve...Read More

No matter how talented a 3-year-old might be, there’s no substitute for racing experience.A young horse needs to learn how to adapt to situations in races, how to deal with adversity, how to compete. Machen learned some lessons Sunday in defeating allowance rivals in his first race around two turns....Read More