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Brereton Jones and Timothy Thornton’s Include Betty (Include) figures to come with her usual late burst of speed in Saturday’s GI Mother Goose S. at Belmont, but as is usually the case with her, it’ll be a question of whether or not she has left herself with too much to do. The Tom Proctor trainee closed from...

Parx Racing and the Pennsylvania Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association (PTHA) announced Friday the creation of the $20 Million Parx Racing Fall Festival from Aug. 29-Oct. 20. The purse level at the Bensalem oval will be doubled for the meet duration of 32 live race days, with the aim of increasing field size, enhancing betting interest and...

Triple Crown hero American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) returned to the work tab Monday at Santa Anita, going three furlongs in :36.40. It was the third fastest of 13 at the distance.  “American Pharoah worked great this morning,” reported Zayat Stable’s racing manager Justin Zayat. “It was an easy work back for him. [Trainer] Bob [Baffert] was...

TREVE PLANS OUTLINED    Connections of Treve (Fr) (Motivator {GB}), winner of last year’s G1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe and yesterday revealed as the co-highest rated horse in the world of 2013 with a mark of 130, have outlined plans for their star filly for 2014. The Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad al Thani silkbearer will look...

4th-SAX, $57,000, Msw, 3yo, 1mT, 1:34 4/5, fm.  +TEXAS RYANO, c, 3, by Curlin  1st Dam: Blending Element (Ire) (GSW, $449,008), by Great Commotion 2nd Dam: Blue Wedding, by Irish River (Fr)   3rd Dam: Wedding, by Noholme II      Texas Ryano, dismissed at 24-1 in this debut, broke a tad awkwardly and was in no hurry...

3rd-GPX, $41,400, Msw, 3yo, 6f, 1:09 1/5, ft.  +ANCHOR DOWN (c, 3, Tapit–Successful Outlook {GSW, $110,720}, by Orientate), a half-sister to recently retired “TDN Rising Star” Sweet Lulu (Mr. Greeley), GISW, $693,600, gave his sire a fourth impressive maiden winner in the month of January at Gulfstream Park, overcoming a tardy dispatch to graduate at first asking here....

ATTENDANCE STEADY AT BRITISH COURSES  Attendance at British racecourses rose nearly 2% in 2013 to 5,679,941 from 5,581,615 in 2012–although average daily attendance fell by 2.6% to 3,972–according to figures released by The Racecourse Association. Last year saw 1,430 fixtures staged across the country–61 more than in 2012, when a number of summer meetings were...

Some jockeys win first time out and some require multiple trips to the post. For apprentice jockey Drayden Van Dyke, he won his first race in his second try at Hollywood Park–an accomplishment that can never be duplicated by future jockeys with that track’s subsequent closure. An interesting series of events conspired to point Van...

6th-GPX, $41,100, Alw, Opt. Clm. ($75,000), NW1X, 3yo, 1 1/16m, 1:42, ft.  CONSTITUTION (c, 3, Tapit–Baffled {SP-Eng}, by Distorted Humor) took this battle of the Tapits and of “TDN Rising Stars”, defeating Tonalist by 3 1/4 lengths on the square. The $400,000 FTSAUG yearling purchase was off slowly in his seven-furlong debut over this surface Jan. 11, but rushed...

Lane’s End Racing and Dell Ridge Farm “TDN Rising Star” Honor Code (A.P. Indy), winner of the Nov. 30 GII Remsen S., worked four panels in :52.06 yesterday at Palm Meadows Training Center as he prepares for the GII Rebel S. at Oaklawn Mar. 15. “He went fine,” said trainer Shug McGaughey. “He was very willing and got...

By Lucas Marquardt  Early last month, Hall of Fame trainer Neil Drysdale moved from Hollywood Park–where he had been stabled for some three decades–to Santa Anita. After 76 years, Hollywood Park was closing its doors, soon to become a housing development, and Drysdale was one of dozens of horsemen forced to relocate. It wasn’t the...