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Trajectory in July matters more than it does in May, and that's quite fortunate for a sophomore trotting filly with hopes of reaching new heights in the Hambletonian Oaks.
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Unreasonable won the inaugural $75,000 Mohegan Cup for free-for-all pacing mares Sunday evening at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, tying Somwherovrarainbow's 12-year-old track record for 4-year-old pacing mares with a powerful front-end victory in 1:48. That clocking is also the Pocono standard for females of any age.
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Timothy stayed brave, making an uncovered assault from the half to the finish to earn a gritty 1:51 victory in the $50,000 Kentucky Proud Series final for 3-year-old pacing colts and geldings on opening night at The Red Mile on Sunday (July 26), a night which featured over $400,000 in purses.
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The Grade 2 Eddie Read Stakes at Del Mar on Sunday was designed as a prep race for Gold Phoenix for the Grade 2 Del Mar Handicap on Aug. 29, a race he has won the last four years.
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Maida was cruising on the lead through solid fractions in Sunday’s Grade 2 Honorable Miss Stakes at Saratoga when she was confronted by the heavily favored Grand Job at the top of the stretch.
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Splash of Bourbon made quite a splash in Sunday’s $150,500 Thunder Bay at Woodbine by winning her third in a row and her first stakes for red-hot trainer Sid Attard.
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Listenupshance and Maximum Bourbon, first and second in Saturday’s Grade 1 Bing Crosby Stakes at Del Mar, are likely to have a rematch in the Grade 2 Santa Anita Sprint Championship on Sept. 27.
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Mark Casse was already impressed by his filly Counting Stars’ performance in winning Saturday’s Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks at Saratoga by 4 1/4 lengths. He was even more impressed when he realized his 3-year-old filly ran 1 1/8 miles nearly a full second faster than the older male Wynstock did winning an allowance race at the same distance earlier on the card.
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Cornucopian, the brilliant sprinter who won Grade 3 stakes at Santa Anita and Churchill Downs earlier this year, has been euthanized after sustaining an injury in Saturday’s Grade 1 Bing Crosby Stakes at Del Mar.
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White Abarrio joined a handful of other leading candidates for the much-anticipated, $1 million Whitney Stakes on Aug. 8 to get in a serious work this weekend at Saratoga, breezing four furlongs in 46.87 seconds over the main track on Sunday per Daily Racing Form with his regular rider Irad Ortiz Jr. aboard.
