In her third attempt, Estrange won her first Group 1 in Saturday’s $455,000 Pretty Polly Stakes for fillies and mares at the Curragh in Ireland, arguably the most attractive win of her nine-race career.
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Five jockeys, including defending meet leading rider Irad Ortiz Jr., will miss several days at the beginning of the Saratoga meet due to suspensions handed them by the New York stewards at last summer’s Saratoga season and, in the case of Ortiz and Luis Saez, penalties assessed them from Delaware Park stewards earlier this month.
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Ryan Moore’s World Pool blog for Irish Derby Day at Curragh.
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Endurance showed again why he is a major contender for this year's Hambletonian with a stakes record 1:52 4/5 win in the $90,675 Currier & Ives for 3-year-old male trotters on Friday night at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows.
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Swiss Lights, driven by Trace Tetrick for trainer Jeff Cullipher, spoiled the "Hoosier Homecoming" of North America Cup champion Odds On Mr Mamba, as the Rockin Image gelding pulled off the upset in the $95,000 Indiana Sire Stakes event for 3-year-old colt and gelding pacers on a wet Friday (June 26) night at Harrah's Hoosier Park.
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A Clean Deal made it two-for-two in 2026 Ontario Sires Stakes action with a career-best 1:49 3/5 victory on Friday (June 26) at Woodbine Mowak Park in the lone $140,000 Gold Series event for sophomore pacing fillies.
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Add an extra quarter of a mile to the $250,000 Grade 2 MGM Yonkers Trot, and you have a recipe for a wild finish. That proved to be the case on Friday night (June 26) when Inexpressable and driver Tim Tetrick rallied off of a third-over cover trip and charged by the field to capture the opening leg of Trotting's Triple Crown at MGM Yonkers Raceway.
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Fragment, who was last year's New York Sire Stakes, Big Apple and Matron winner, rebounded off a third-place finish in the sire stakes most recently at Buffalo to capture the Grade 2 $200,000 MGM Grand Messenger Stakes final for 3-year-old male pacers on Friday night (June 26) at MGM Yonkers Raceway. The Messenger, which was conducted at the distance of a mile and a quarter this year, is the first leg of the Pacing Triple Crown.
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Saturday’s program at Los Alamitos has a carryover of $13,146 in the $2 pick six.
