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Tim Wilkin

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1 year

Trainer Brendan Walsh, whose Pretty Mischievous was awarded the victory in Saturday’s Test at Saratoga, delivered the blanket of flowers given to the races winner to trainer Melanie Giddings, whose Maple Leaf Mel broke down steps before the finish line. ⁦ @BloodHorse ⁩

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.⁦ @PreaknessStakes ⁩ winner Seize the Grey being shown off the day after his big win. HOF trainer D. Wayne Lukas proud to show him off. Fellow HOFer Bob Baffert, who trained Seize the Grey’s daddy Arrogate, stopped by for a look, too.

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3 years

Medina Spirit never did anything wrong. All he did was run as hard as he could. Every time he stepped on the track. Here’s hoping that is the way people will remember him.

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1 year

. @jenaantonucci has a quiet moment with Arcangelo the day after he won the Travers.

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4 years

News to report: I’ve accepted a buyout from the Albany Times Union after 35 years (that is a little scary!). My last day will be Dec. 18. I’ll still cover horse racing for the TU. The day-to-day grind is coming to an end. You all stay safe & healthy and I’ll see ya down the road!

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4 years

This is how it went down at Pennell’s in Saratoga Springs as @sackatogastable partners cheered Tiz the Law home in the Belmont Stakes Saturday

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2 years

.⁦ @KentuckyDerby ⁩ winner Rich Strike is up and at ‘em Sunday, the day after his fourth place finish in the Travers.

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2 years

Art Collector, who won the $3 million Pegasus at ⁦ @GulfstreamPark ⁩ in Florida Saturday, shown here at Saratoga last summer with Erma Scott, longtime employee of trainer Bill Mott. She is also Art Collector’s biggest fan.

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1 year

Mel’s Baby Sister, a 2-year-old filly, has been given the stall of the late Maple Leaf Mel. Trainer ⁦ @melgidd1 ⁩ put her in on Wednesday. She is a daughter of Cross Traffic, the same sire as Maple Leaf Mel, but not related. Won’t run at Saratoga, maybe October downstate.

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1 month

Thorpedo Anna, 2nd in the Travers, getting some love Sunday morning at ⁦ @KennyMcPeek ⁩ barn at Saratoga.

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1 year

.⁦ @BelmontStakes ⁩ winner Arcangelo was full of himself Friday morning at ⁦ @jenaantonucci ⁩’s barn at the Oklahoma Training Track. Travers next for him.

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2 years

Letruska still a badass

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4 years

Asked Swiss Skydiver Sunday morning if she did something special in Saturday’s Alabama at Saratoga.

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6 years

Mike Smith showed his class after finishing 2nd on Midnight Bisou. On way back to jock’s room, he signed at least 25 autographs and posed for pictures. When it was suggested that Mike needs to learn to say no, he grinned. “That’s not what it’s about,” said Mike.

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1 year

.⁦ @jose93_ortiz ⁩ won’t ride at Spa Sunday, but is on the mend after bruising ribs in a spill on Friday. Here he is on Sunday on the backstretch. Was actually going to get on one horse. Says still feels sore and will take it “day by day.” Looking to return Wed. Thumbs up.

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6 years

Southern Phantom, coolest looking horse on the grounds at Saratoga

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4 years

Belmont Stakes winner Tiz the Law arrives in Saratoga. ⁦ @sackatogastable ⁩ runner eying Travers in Aug. 8

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4 months

It’s all good with jockey ⁦ @luissaezpty ⁩ after he won the ⁦ @BelmontStakes ⁩ with Dornoch at Saratoga Saturday.

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1 year

RIP to Art Collector, who was euthanized Thursday due to laminitis. Won a lot of races for Bill Mott’s barn, including the Pegasus this year. Here he is with exercise rider Neal Poznansky and his No. 1 fan, longtime Mott employee Erma Scott. Was really a cool horse.

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1 year

A note outside the stall of Cody’s Wish. Sent from his No.1 fan, Cody Dorman. Best story racing has seen in a long time.

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1 year

What a special relationship ⁦ @melgidd1 ⁩ had with Maple Leaf Mel.

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2 years

Whitney runner Hot Rod Charlie feeling frisky Wednesday morning at Saratoga with ⁦ @DougONeill1 ⁩ assistant Leandro Mora.

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1 month

Thorpedo Anna on a Sunday stroll at ⁦ @KennyMcPeek ⁩ barn.

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1 month

Valiant in defeat, Thorpedo Anna ran a winning race. ⁦ @b_hernandezjr ⁩ takes the saddle off; ⁦ @KennyMcPeek ⁩ checks out his horse.

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6 years

Get ready for Southern Phantom. He is going to make his career debut Saturday at Saratoga.

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1 year

Mage will ship to The Thoroughbred Center in Lexington, Ky. in the coming days for some “down time,” ⁦ @RamiroRestrepo ⁩ said. “He has been on engine since January.”

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2 years

.⁦ @KentuckyDerby ⁩ winner Rich Strike has arrived in Saratoga for the Travers.

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6 years

Southern Phantom schooling in paddock at Saratoga Thursday morning

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2 years

.⁦ @KentuckyDerby ⁩ winner Rich Strike and trainer Eric Reed at Saratoga Wednesday morning

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3 years

Medina Spirit and Bob Baffert the day after the Kentucky Derby. Seventh Derby win for Bob. Baffert heads home to California today; Medina Spirit stays in Kentucky to train for Preakness.

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5 years

Hey, Tacitus! You gonna win the Travers?

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1 year

Mel’s Baby Sister is owned by Bill Parcells, also the owner of Maple Leaf Mel.

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2 years

.⁦ @KentuckyDerby ⁩ winner Rich Strike working four furlongs at Saratoga Friday morning. Is running in the Travers next week. Went out at 5:30 am

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3 years

Such a sad ending for a horse that always ran hard.

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1 year

Travers winner Arcangelo looking good Sunday morning at ⁦ @jenaantonucci ⁩ barn the day after his big win in the Travers.

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5 months

The morning after: Seize the Grey, the newest winner of the ⁦ @PreaknessStakes ⁩ at ⁦ @PimlicoRC ⁩ Sunday morning. He’ll head home to Louisville Monday according to trainer D. Wayne Lukas.

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3 months

.⁦ @KennyMcPeek ⁩ on Thorpedo Anna and possible date in Travers: “I like challenges. I would be sticking my neck out a little bit but I think the sport would really enjoy seeing a filly take on the colts. I am going to look really hard and try to make an educated decision.”

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5 years

Mark Case: "I'm pretty hot right now. I'm furious that (West) took shots at Tyler. War of Will is like my child. Tyler is like part of the family. Our poor horse took a beating. When it's all said and done and they look at the race, frame by frame, one horse caused the infraction

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5 years

Traffic stopped on Union Avenue in Saratoga so horses can cross over from Oklahoma to main track and vice versa. Five minute wait. No big deal. Happens every day. Couple morons blowing on their car horns. Jerks. Horses always have the right of way up here. Right or wrong?

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3 years

Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit has arrived at ⁦ @PimlicoRC ⁩

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2 months

Thorpedo Anna will take on the boys in the Travers. ⁦ @KennyMcPeek ⁩ just made the announcement.

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3 months

Seeing a lot of this on Monday. Horses arriving for summer camp at Saratoga. Meet starts Thursday.

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1 year

Cody’s Wish at Saratoga on Wednesday. Getting ready for ⁦ @BreedersCup ⁩ Dirt Mile next week. Won that race last year.

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3 months

And, hello to you, D Wayne Lukas. Forever young Hall of Fame trainer making the rounds Thursday morning ing at Saratoga.

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4 months

Lovely morning at Saratoga for ⁦ @PreaknessStakes ⁩ winner Seize the Grey and ⁦ @nmrhof ⁩ trainer D. Wayne Lukas. Wait til the end; D. Wayne thinks I have changed careers. 😂

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1 year

Cody’s Wish getting ready to train Wednesday.

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1 year

Part of Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott’s Murderer’s Row at Saratoga Tuesday morning. From the top: Cody’s Wish, War Like Goddess and Art Collector.

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9 months

Cody’s Wish wins Horse of the Year. The right choice.

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4 years

Barclay Tagg, less than an hour after the tough beat in the @KentuckyDerby : "You can't beat Baffert. My horse ran hard." When I said I thought Tiz the Law was going to go by Authentic heading into stretch, he said: "I did, too."

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4 years

Tiz the Law checking out his new digs Monday morning at Saratoga

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1 year

Saratoga is over for me. Thanks to ⁦ @TheNYRA ⁩, @BloodHorse ⁩ and my compadres in the press box. And trainers, jockeys & owners who are so kind — usually 😂— with their time. And to you, the readers who followed along. Will be doing same at @KYDownsRacing ⁩. See ya then.

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2 years

Five weeks from today, ⁦it’s opening day at Saratoga.

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2 years

And this Saratoga meet, like all the others, belongs to the ages. I will reappear in a few days at Kentucky Downs. As always, thanks for following along during the best race meet in America. See ya around!

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5 months

Maple Leaf Mel was named the 2023 New York-bred Horse of the Year Monday in Saratoga. Also honored as female sprinter and 3-year-old filly. The right choice. What a courageous and talented filly she was. Here she was last summer with her best friend, trainer ⁦ @melgidd1 ⁩.

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1 year

.⁦ @BelmontStakes ⁩ winner Arcangelo outside ⁦⁦ @jenaantonucci ⁩’s barn at Saratoga the day before the Travers.

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6 years

Here he is. @KentuckyDerby winner Justify with a brief appearance with trainer Bob Baffert Sunday morning. Little feisty

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1 year

Cody’s Wish and exercise rider Eddie Davis Friday at Saratoga. Cody’s Wish is being pointed to the Whitney. Until then, he’ll mow the grass.

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2 years

Saratoga in all its glory

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3 months

Sunday morning funday for ⁦ @PreaknessStakes ⁩ winner Seize the Grey at D. Wayne Lukas barn on the Oklahoma.

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2 years

Rich Strike checks things out

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1 year

2003 ⁦ @KentuckyDerby ⁩ and ⁦ @PreaknessStakes ⁩ winner Funny Cide died early Sunday morning from complications from colic at ⁦ @KyHorsePark ⁩, where he lived the last 15 years. Funny Cide was 23. “He changed my life,” Jack Knowlton of ⁦ @sackatogastable ⁩ said.

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3 years

Laura Moquett, wife and assistant to ⁦ @RonMoquett ⁩, with her pal Whitmore Sunday morning. Whitmore has a minor injury to his left front and has been retired. The 8-year-old is doing fine, Laura says.

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2 years

Golden Pal catches some well deserved 💤 the day after he won the Troy for Wesley Ward Friday.

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6 years

These @Jeopardy contestants need to do their horse racing homework

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5 years

McKinzie wanted nothing to do with his blanket of flowers which he won with the Whitney. Trainer Bob Baffert said the tough horse was afraid of the flowers. Go figure.

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3 years

Got Stormy on Sunday. She knows she did something pretty cool on Saturday.

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2 years

The Clydesdales getting their steps in on Friday morning at Saratoga.

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4 years

Said goodbye to the old desk today. Thanks ⁦ @timesunion ⁩, ⁦ @CaseySeiler ⁩, ⁦ @rexwsmith ⁩ and all my TU work mates in the sports department — past and present — for the last 35 years. It’s been a blast.

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9 months

Pretty Mischievous, with trainer ⁦ @brenpwalsh ⁩ at Saratoga, is your Eclipse winner for champion 3-year-old filly.

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5 years

D. Wayne Lukas on popularity of this year's Preakness: "85 or 90 percent of the people that are going to be here will not come for the race. They are coming for the block party, the infield. 10 percent of the degenerates are going to be trying to figure out who is going to win."

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4 years

Florida Derby/Belmont/Travers winner Tiz the Law will ship to Keeneland on Sunday to get ready for Nov. 7 ⁦ @BreedersCup ⁩ Classic. “I want to get a couple works into him down there before going a mile and a quarter,” trainer Barclay Tagg said Wednesday.

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1 year

Played stare down with Mel’s Baby Sister Saturday morning at ⁦ @melgidd1 ⁩ barn at the Oklahoma. She won. She got carrots

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1 month

.⁦ @FrankieDettori ⁩ checks out the course at ⁦ @KYDownsRacing ⁩ Thursday morning. International superstar jockey riding here for the first time in his illustrious career. ⁦ @KYDownsRacing ⁩ ⁦ @TracksideJennie ⁩

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1 year

The jockey statue honoring Arcangelo already in place Sunday morning at the garden inside the clubhouse gate. Paint still drying!

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5 months

⁦ @PreaknessStakes ⁩ winner Seize the Grey will ship to Saratoga next Saturday from Louisville for the June 8 Belmont trainer D. Wayne Lukas said Friday. “He came out of the Preakness remarkably well,” Lukas said. He is doing damn good.”

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2 months

Jim Dandy winner Fierceness looking proud at ⁦ @PletcherRacing ⁩ Sunday morning.

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3 years

.⁦ @KennyMcPeek ⁩ said Wednesday that 4-year-old filly Swiss Skydiver will be pointed to the Aug. 7 Whitney Stakes at Saratoga vs males. Swiss Skydiver was originally going to run in Sunday’s Shuvee. MORE

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2 years

Asked D. Wayne Lukas, 86 years young, about retiring. Got response I expected: "I'm not going to stop because I don't know what I would do. I have to have something to get up for. I need to do this. It's the best therapy in the world."

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1 year

The summer goal for ⁦ @KentuckyDerby ⁩ winner and ⁦ @PreaknessStakes ⁩ third-place finisher Mage will be Saratoga’s Travers. “We will figure out the best way to get him to the Travers,” ⁦co-owner and bloodstock agent ⁦ @RamiroRestrepo ⁩ said Sunday. (More)

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2 years

Trainer Robbie Davis with his 3-year-old filly Vallelujah Sunday morning. She won Saturday at odds of 24-1. She was ridden by Davis’ daughter, ⁦ @JockeyJaDavis ⁩, who was born in Saratoga. It was her first riding win at her hometown track.

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1 month

Trainer ⁦ @mjsharp75_joe ⁩ getting his miles in before the ⁦ @KYDownsRacing ⁩ Saturday card. Joe, who runs between 9-10 miles at least 4 times a week, was heading for his second lap around the track.

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5 months

A smorgasbord for Sonny the dog! No, he did not eat them all! Although if given the chance, he would have given it a shot. Breakfast was for the ⁦ @KennyMcPeek ⁩ barn.

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4 years

Good job by the outrider catching this loose horse on the Oklahoma Wednesday morning.

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2 years

.⁦ @KentuckyDerby ⁩ winner Rich Strike, right, and Iowa Derby winner Ain’t Life Grand, eye ball each other Thursday morning at Saratoga. They run in the Travers Saturday.

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3 years

Belmont Stakes winner Essential Quality is in the house. The leader in the 3-year-old division has settled in at Saratoga.

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2 years

D. Wayne Lukas is all smiles Wednesday morning. Back at Saratoga. Why would he not be happy?

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6 years

It’s Patch on Thursday morning

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2 years

We don’t have any horseplayers on ⁦ @Jeopardy ⁩ tonight.

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11 months

The day after watching his namesake Cody’s Wish win the BCup Dirt Mile, Cody Dorman passed away. RIP Cody. You were an inspiration. Prayers to the Dorman family.

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1 month

.⁦ @PletcherRacing ⁩ said that Travers winner Fierceness will train up to the ⁦ @BreedersCup ⁩ Classic at Del Mar.

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6 years

Battle of Midway, who lost his life in after breaking down over the weekend at Santa Anita, received eight first place votes in the @NTRA top thoroughbred poll, which was released Monday. He got mine. Tribute to a fallen champion. RIP.

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3 years

Do you know who I am? I’m Mandaloun and I live in the same barn as Essential Quality. Same trainer (⁦ @bradcoxracing ⁩). I’m a pretty good runner, too. That is all. Go about your business.

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5 years

Mike Smith's decision: He'll ride Omaha Beach for Mandella in @KentuckyDerby . Took him over Baffert's Roadster. "I will tell you, it was the hardest decision I have ever made in my career," Smith said. "I've ridden a long time and I have never been in a situation like this."

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5 years

The Oklahoma Training Track in Saratoga is open for business

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5 years

Bob Baffert, the new trainer of Maximum Security, said horse is in quarantine. Following that, he will go to Lexington, Ky and be checked out by Dr. Larry Bramlage and then be let down a bit before heading to California.

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3 years

Picnic tables back in place at the Spa

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1 year

.⁦ @BelmontStakes ⁩ winner Arcangelo on Wednesday morning at Saratoga. Hearing up for the Travers.

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1 month

End of days — for me — at Saratoga meet. Will be heading to ⁦ @KYDownsRacing ⁩ to work with ⁦ @TracksideJennie ⁩ this week. My time is done at Spa. Thanks for following along; thanks to ⁦ @suefinley ⁩ and ⁦ @theTDN ⁩ for bringing me aboard. See you here from Ky.!