AmWager is proud to sponsor The Silver Charm race on Old Friend’s Day, Sept. 8 at Kentucky Downs. As always, the 10-race card will be outstanding, including the $150,000 Old Friends Stakes AmWager will sponsor Race 6 -“The Silver Charm,” which is the 1st race of the Pick 5. And AmWager will be there to support a great cause. Old Friends provides a dignified retirement to Thoroughbreds whose racing and breeding careers have come to

From Del Mar Thoroughbred Club Del Mar’s action-packed Labor Day Holiday weekend of Thoroughbred racing continues Sunday with another stakes doubleheader featuring two highly-competitive Grade II events, the $200,000 John C. Mabee Stakes for older fillies and mares and the $250,000 Del Mar Derby for three-year-olds. The 2016 Del Mar meeting comes to a climax Monday when the Grade I $300,000 Del Mar Futurity for two-year-olds will have its 69th running. California Chrome, leading money-winner

By Jennie Rees, Kentucky Downs FRANKLIN, Ky. — A total of 189 horses were entered Wednesday for Saturday’s 10-race opening card at all-turf Kentucky Downs — with nine races luring a capacity 12 horses or more, including three out of four stakes. The stakes are each worth $350,000, which includes $200,000 of purse supplements from the Kentucky Thoroughbred Development Fund for horses born in the commonwealth and sired by a Kentucky stallion. The lone race

From Del Mar The single-day handle mark at Del Mar fell Saturday as California Chrome was the star of the show in pulling off a smashing performance in front of 24,155 in the 26th running of the TVG Pacific Classic. Total handle for the day from all sources was $25,060,204, which eclipsed the previous standard of $24,667,351 established on Pacific Classic Day in 2007. In addition to the overall betting mark falling, the track also

The first grade one event of the historic Saratoga meet is the Diana Stakes for fillies and mares going a mile and an eighth on the turf. The pinnacle race on the Saratoga card drew a full field of ten ladies with morning line favoritism falling on Miss Temple City(3-1) for Graham Motion. The Temple City filly is already a grade one winner as she beat her male counterparts in the Maker’s 46 Mile at