Green Beans has run for a $16,000 tag in five of his last seven starts. But through a confluence of fortunate breaks, the Virginia-bred will try to become a stakes winner in the $125,000 Edward P. Evans.
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Inner-turf horse for the course Miss Vyvyanne gets her sternest test to date when she takes on the boys over five furlongs in Saturday's Grade 2 Highlander at Woodbine.
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The 10 fillies and mares entered in Saturday's $275,000 Anchorage Stakes at Churchill Downs have made their most recent starts at seven different tracks – on turf, dirt, and synthetic surfaces.
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Five of the six 3-year-olds in Saturday's Grade 3, $150,000 Marine are nominated to the Aug. 15 King's Plate, which makes the 1 1/16-mile event an important prep for Canada's most prestigious race.
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It would be difficult – very, very difficult – saying that the 4-year-old colt Sovereignty still has something to prove Saturday at Churchill Downs in the Stephen Foster Stakes. And yet . . .
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Among the trainers with horses in Saturday's feature at Emerald Downs are a Washington Racing Hall of Famer, the track's winningest trainer, and a West Coast stalwart whose horses finished one-two in Sunday's Budweiser . Then there's Elodio Madrigal.
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Splendora had not won beyond a mile before the Shawnee, and who's to say that 1 1/8 miles will prove her undoing Saturday at Churchill in the Fleur de Lis Stakes? Shred the Gnar would like a word.
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It took 15 months, but Cornucopian finally ran back to his brilliant debut. The question now: Can he do it again? The answer comes Saturday in the Grade 3, $275,000 Bango Stakes at Churchill Downs.
The first leg of Delaware Standardbred Breeders Fund (DSBF) action for 3-year-old trotters got underway Wednesday at Harrington Raceway with four $20,000 divisions to complete the first leg.
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There were a couple of big headlines that came out in the two $58,000 (approx.) New York Sire Stakes for the 3-year-old colt and gelding trotters on the Wednesday (June 24) program at Buffalo Raceway, as a track record was absolutely demolished while a driver hit a career milestone in collecting a victory.
