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In a thrilling finish, longshot Wicked Django wore down the classy favorite Paramount Prince in the stretch to land his first stakes in the inaugural running of the $150,000 Grand Valley on Sunday at Woodbine.
Puro Magic, 10th in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint at Del Mar last November, led throughout Sunday’s Grade 1 Sprinters Stakes at six furlongs on turf at Nakayama Racecourse in Japan, her first win in a race at the highest level in her fifth start in a Grade 1 or Group 1 race.
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Emulating the feats of champions Golden Sixty and Ambitious Dragon, Invincible Ibis laid the foundation for a tilt at LONGINES Hong Kong International Races glory with a triumphant return in the HK$4.2 million G3 Celebration Cup Handicap at Sha Tin.
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Wrong Sounds Right stepped up to face open company after a successful run through the New Jersey Sire Stakes and New Jersey Classic and didn't disappoint, winning the Grade 1 Mohawk Million for 2-year-old trotters on Saturday night at Woodbine Mohawk Park in 1:51 1/5 to match the world record for a rookie trotting colt.
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Nix Nacken overpowered his stablemate, Hambletonian champion Apex, in the closing strides of a 1:51 1/5 mile to snatch victory in the C$590,000 Grade 1 Canadian Trotting Classic final, for trotting sophomores, on Saturday night at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
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With undefeated and morning-line favorite Shalom Hanover scratched lame before the race, the Grade 1 C$1 million Metro final for 2-year-old male pacers went through elimination winner Eastie Boy, and he took advantage, delivering in a career-best 1:49 2/5 mile.
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Jersey Bulldog never saw a pylon and never relented in a hearty 1:49 4/5 score to snag the C$510,000 Grade 1 Shes A Great Lady final, for 2-year-old pacing fillies, on Saturday night at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
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Odds-on favorite Nuance sprung to the lead from fast fractions and past weary rivals to skip away to a stakes-record 1:51 1/5 victory in the C$400,000 Grade 1 Elegantimage final, for 3-year-old trotting fillies, on Saturday night at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
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The John Simpson Sr. stakes series, honoring the Hall of Fame horseman and breeding executive with a race in each of the eight stakes categories named after a horse with whom he was associated in his career, opened its annual stay at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania on Saturday with the Albatross, with three $30,000 divisions for sophomore pacing males. The atmospheric conditions may not have been the greatest (moist, cool and windy), but the racing certainly was first-rate.
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Despite being based on the East Coast with trainer Saffie Joseph, Jr., Forged Steel has won two major stakes on dirt this year at Santa Anita – the Grade 2 Hollywood Gold Cup in May, and Saturday’s Grade 1 Goodwood Stakes.
