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For most 25-year-olds, Friday nights are a time to let loose, have fun, and party into the night. While 2 a.m. Saturday morning may represent the time many of them are returning home from their adventures, it will be the time at which Nick Vaccarezza hears his alarm going off Sept. 6 telling him it’s time…

Steve Landers Racing’s Destino d’Oro  sat a perfect trip and drew off with authority to win the $399,400 Pucker Up Stakes (G3T) Aug. 3 at Ellis Park. Trained by Brad Cox and ridden by Luan Machado, Destino d’Oro completed the 1 1/8-mile turf contest in 1:45.64 to earn her first graded stakes victory. It was…

Fasig-Tipton has cataloged 127 entries for its May Digital Sale, which may be viewed at digital.fasigtipton.com. Bidding opened May 8 and will close Tuesday, May 13, beginning at 3 p.m. ET. The catalog offers horses of racing age, breeding stock—including mares with foals at foot—2-year-olds in training, yearlings, and a grade 1 winning stallion prospect….

Alfred Nuckols Jr. is a fifth-generation horseman who manages Hurstland Farm in Midway, Ky. The 2013 Farm Manager of the Year has carried on his family’s legacy of breeding great racehorses for more than a century. Hurstland has bred and/or raised more than 220 stakes winners, and nearly 60 years later, Nuckols will head to Saratoga…

Buying horses in training from Europe would ideally mirror the path of The Padre . He has marched up the ladder almost without a misstep, and he could become a graded stakes winner in the Aug. 31 $300,000 Del Mar Derby (G2T). Trainer Phil D’Amato seems to have a never-ending supply of European runners ready for…

Lane’s End’s Flightline   will have his first yearlings offered in the United States on display at the prestigious The Saratoga Sale, Fasig-Tipton’s select yearling sale, Aug. 4-5 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y The 2022 Horse of the Year will be represented by nine yearlings that include five fillies and four colts. They were bred on a $200,000 stud…