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State-bred turf runners were featured on Saturday at Hawthorne with a pair of stakes returning to the schedule. A field of eight was featured in the Illini Princess Handicap for fillies and mares while nine males were sent postward in the Buck’s Boy Handicap. At the start of the Illini Princess, nobody seemed to want […]

A well-matched field of eight, including defending champion Streamline, is entered in the $350,000 Azeri Stakes (G2) for older fillies and mares Saturday at Oaklawn. Probable post time for the 1 1/16-mile Azeri, which goes as the ninth of 10 races, is 5:32 p.m. (Central). The Azeri is the final major local prep for the $700,000 Apple Blossom Handicap […]

Nancy A. Vanier and Cartwright Thoroughbreds LLC.’s Streamline, never worse the third in nine previous Oaklawn races, reaffirmed her affinity for the Oaklawn oval with a come from behind victory in Saturday’s $150,000 Bayakoa Stakes (G3). With Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens in the irons, Streamline raced in last place among the six-horse field as Defy […]

Coffeepot Stables’ Farrell began her 4-year-old season just like she ended her 3-year-old campaign by winning a stakes. Using her preferred front-running style, Farrell held off 2017 Fantasy Stakes winner Ever So Clever to prevail by three-quarters of a length in Saturday’s $125,000 Pippin Stakes before a crowd of 15,500. Breaking from post 2 under regular rider […]

Seltzer Thoroughbreds’ Finest City, winner of last fall’s Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (Grade I) headlines a field of nine entered Tuesday for the 32nd running of the $300,000 La Troienne (Grade I) Presented by Spirit Funds for fillies and mares going 1 1/16 miles on the main track at Churchill Downs. The La […]

Hronis Racing LLC’s champion Stellar Wind is scheduled to arrive Tuesday afternoon from Southern California and will make her 5-year-old debut in Friday’s $600,000 Apple Blossom Handicap (G1). It will be her first race since finishing four in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff Nov. 4. “We gave her a vacation after the Breeders’ Cup, and with […]

Trainer Brian Williamson had a hard time believing what he was seeing last Saturday, when jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr. elected not to send the heavily-favored Terra Promessa to the lead in Oaklawn’s Grade 2 Azeri Stakes. Chris Landeros, piloting the Williamson-trained Streamline, took advantage, gauging a perfect stalking trip just off the leader, She Mabee […]

Streamline will be pointed for the $600,000 Apple Blossom Handicap (G1) for older fillies and mares April 14 at Oaklawn, trainer Brian Williamson said Sunday morning. The five-year-old mare provided Williamson his biggest career victory with a one-length decision over Eskenformoney in Saturday’s $350,000 Azeri Stakes (G2) at 1 1/16 miles. The Azeri is the […]

Nancy A. Vanier and William Cartwright’s Streamline was the surprise winner of Saturday’s Grade 2 Azeri Stakes, crossing the wire about a length in front at odds of 12-1 on the tote board. The 5-year-old daughter of Straight Line was near the lead throughout under Chris Landeros, and completed the 1 1/16-mile distance over Oaklawn […]

A return to Hot Springs brought Terra Promessa back to her winning ways as she scored a front-running victory in Saturday’s $125,000  Pippin Stakes in front of 16,000 on-track fans. The four-year-old Curlin filly, winner of last year’s Honeybee (G3) and Fantasy (G3) Stakes, is now a perfect four-for-four at Oaklawn. With the nation’s 2016 […]