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Big Ranger’s connections couldn’t have asked much more from him during his freshman season in 2025. He won all seven of his starts and banked $370,610 and finished the year as Ohio Horse of the Year.
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Entering the 2026 season, Neil MacInnis could only hope to be at Scioto Downs for the Ohio Sires Stakes Scarlet Championships. As it turns out, that’s exactly where he’ll be on Saturday (Sept. 12) to watch Rhodena Blue race on Ohio Super Night.
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As Saturday’s Iroquois Stakes at Churchill Downs is the first race offering qualifying points to the 2027 Kentucky Derby, Churchill Downs Inc. on Thursday released the remainder of the points-scoring races in North America that will help determine the bulk of the field for the world’s most famous horse race to be run May 1.
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There will be no rematch in the short-term between Medoro and Thought Process, the top two finishers of the Grade 2 John C. Mabee Stakes at Del Mar on Monday.
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Forever Young, the Japanese and American champion, got his first feel for the new Belmont Park surface on Thursday morning, lightly galloping once around the 1 1/2-mile oval shortly after being released from quarantine as he prepares for his next start in the Grade 1, $1 million Jockey Club Gold Cup on Sept. 18.
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Witty will return to Laurel to take on another stiff field in Saturday's $100,000 Laurel Dash Stakes. The turf sprint division in the Mid-Atlantic has been supremely tough in recent years, and the 7-year-old has always been right in the thick of it.
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Trainers Michael McCarthy and Saffie Joseph Jr. have already successfully pulled off the Princess Rooney-Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint double. Both will attempt to accomplish that feat once again this season beginning Saturday at Gulfstream Park as they send out the leading contenders in this year's renewal of the Grade 3, $225,000 Princess Rooney Stakes.
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Trendsetter has racked up minor prizes behind runaway winners in his last three starts in graded stakes, but the $250,000 Super Derby will run through him Saturday at Louisiana Downs. The gelding is the obvious class of the field and seems supremely well-spotted by trainer Ben Colebrook.
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Billie Holiday's appearance in Saturday's $100,000 Becca Taylor Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Los Alamitos can be partially blamed on sentimentalism. Billie Holiday, who has won her last two starts by at least 4 1/4 lengths, races for owner and breeder Nick Alexander and trainer Steve Miyadi. Alexander and Miyadi also raced Becca Taylor, who won 9 of 10 starts.
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Derick Giwner's analysis of the Saturday 9/12 card at Scioto Downs.
