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  • Unlimited Budget is expected to face males in Belmont Stakes 2013. Posted 8 hours ago
  • Verrazano will make his next start in the Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth on 6-16. Posted 8 hours ago
  • Dreaming of Julia will make her next start in the Mother Goose at Belmont on 6-22. Posted 8 hours ago
  • Game On Dude worked 4f in :50.60 (28/36) at Santa Anita on 5-20. Posted 12 hours ago
  • Overanalyze, breezing for Belmont Stakes 2013, went 4f in :47.50 (3/34) at Belmont (dirt training) on 5-19.Posted 1 day ago
  • 2013 Belmont Stakes hopeful Palace Malice breezed 4f in :47.49 (2/34) at Belmont Park (dirt training) on 5-19. Posted 1 day ago
  • Coffee Clique romps in the Selene Stakes!Posted 1 day ago
  • Royal Delta breezed 4f in :52.03 (15/23) at Belmont Park on 5-19. Posted 1 day ago
  • Oxbow and Gary Stevens wire the Preakness!Posted 2 days ago
  • Skyring goes all the way in the Dixie! Posted 2 days ago

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Richard Sherman’s 5-year-old homebred gelding Nikki’s Sandcastle has been running strong races for trainer David Kassen this year, finishing second in stakes at Remington Park, Hawthorne and Keeneland in his last three starts. On Saturday, Opening Day at Gulfstream Park, he finally got his day in th...Read More
Last year’s success beginning the Gulfstream Park meet a month early translated into the earliest start ever at the South Florida track this year.Read More
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  • BrianZipse · Sorry, but ... you have the best job of all! · 171 days ago ·
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It Happened Again, who races in the silks of Maggi Moss, Fair Grounds’ defending owner champion, won the showcase race during Fair Grounds’ initial hosting of the 13th Claiming Crown Saturday, capturing the $150,000 Claiming Crown Jewel with a late surge under a well-judged ride by jockey Shane Sell...Read More
Trainer Joe Woodard holds the Churchill Downs record of saddling an unprecedented 10 consecutive winners at the Twin Spires oval and has also won multiple training titles at Turfway Park, River Downs and Beulah Park, but the Kentucky-born conditioner hadn’t been to New Orleans in at least 15 years u...Read More
Thoroughbred racing’s Claiming Crown, a single day series of races created to be the “Breeders’ Cup” for the sometimes-forgotten blue collar owners who have always been the backbone of the “Sport of Kings,” makes its New Orleans debut this weekend and headlines the second Saturday program of Fair Gr...Read More
Trainer Bruce Brown has never been to Louisiana, but that will all change this December when he takes Compliance Officer, a five-length winner of yesterday's Bluegrass Cat Mohawk, to the Fair Grounds for the Claiming Crown Emerald. After that, Brown and owner La Marca Stable will have to figure out ...Read More

Race Results & Past Performances

Date(Descending)
Tr
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Dist.[Filter]
Sf.
$
Cnd
Race
1st
2nd
3rd
Time
View Details12/01/12GP91 1/16 mT03+ MClaiming Crown EmeraldNikki's SandcastleMajor MarvelExclusive Strike1:43.13
View Details12/03/11FG81 1/16 mT03+ MClaiming Crown EmeraldCompliance OfficerBaryshnikovQuick Delivery1:44.51