Current Tag: NYRA
Big Q Answers All The Questions In The Key Cents Stakes
POSTED: November 16, 2019
NYRA Press DutchessViews Farm's Big Q, expertly handled by Jose Lezcano, picked up her first stakes score in Saturday's $100,000 Key Cents, a six-furlong sprint...
Irad Puts On a Clinic at Aqueduct With 5 Wins
POSTED: November 11, 2019
NYRA Press OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr., leading rider at the Big A fall meet, rode five winners on Monday's Veterans Day...
Unraced Queens Empire Trains For Debut
POSTED: November 10, 2019
NYRA Notes Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott continues to prepare royally-bred juvenile Queens Empire for his anticipated debut. The bay son of Empire Maker...
Casse Takes Two, Sir Winston Seeks The Grass
POSTED: November 10, 2019
Photo Credit Chelsea Durand NYRA Press Trainer Mark Casse swept both turf stakes races on Saturday's card at the Big A with 4-year-old Curlin's Honor...
NYRA Names Brook Hawkins Steward
POSTED: October 31, 2019
Photo Credit: NYRA OZONE PARK, N.Y. - The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) today announced the appointment of longtime racing official Brook Hawkins to...
Belmont Park fall meet handle of $274,929,718
POSTED: October 30, 2019
OZONE PARK, NY - The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) today announced that the 2019 Belmont Park fall meet generated all-sources handle of $274,929,718,...
Maedean Steps Into Stakes Company Opening Day At Aqueduct
POSTED: October 26, 2019
NYRA Press ELMONT, N.Y. - Stakes action at Aqueduct Racetrack kicks off the fall meet when live racing returns to the Big A on Friday,...
NYRA News: Phipps, Theroux-Reynolds and Velazquez elected to NY Race Track Chaplaincy Board
POSTED: October 26, 2019
by Bob Curran Jr NYRA Photo Credit: Janet Garaguso Will Phipps II, Kathy Theroux-Reynolds and Johnny Velazquez have been elected to the board of the...
Trainer Gary Contessa Talks Lasix, Drugs, and More in Thoroughbred Horse Racing
POSTED: October 25, 2019
Feature Image Courtesy of Steve Heuertz Trainer Gary Contessa weighs in on the controversial subject of Lasix in horse racing. Gary shares his insight and...
