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The record-breaking 2026 live harness racing season for Oak Grove Racing, Gaming & Hotel draws to a close this week with three days of racing starting on Monday (July 13) and eight total Kentucky Sire Stakes (KYSS) finals through the week.
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Following Ole Crazy Bone’s narrow victory in Saturday’s Grade 2, $250,000 Bowling Green Stakes, trainer Mike Maker said the plan was to point to the $2 million Kentucky Cup Turf Invitational on Sept. 5 at Kentucky Downs. Ole Crazy Bone won that race last year. Owner Jay Provenzano has a different plan.
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The powerful Uncle Mo colt Uncle Dodo graduated in style in Sunday’s $128,000 Victoria, the first 2-year-old stakes of the Woodbine meet.
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The pick six on Sunday at Saratoga that featured a carryover of $166,702 was canceled and pushed back to Thursday’s card after the distance of the fourth race, the first leg of the wager, was changed due to safety concerns expressed by the jockeys to management.
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J J Zo Zo switched back to turf and sprang an 11-1 upset in the $75,000 Irish War Cry Handicap on Sunday at Monmouth Park, giving trainer Cesar Alcala his first stakes victory.
After winning the Group 3 Jersey Stakes for 3-year-olds at seven furlongs at Royal Ascot in Britain on June 20, Thesecretadversary won his first Group 1 race in Sunday’s $456,000 Prix Jean Prat for 3-year-old colts and fillies at seven furlongs at Deauville, France.
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Paladin, winner of the Grade 2 Risen Star in February who was knocked off the Triple Crown trail in March due to a non-displaced condylar fracture, returned to trainer Chad Brown’s barn late last week. He has jogged a few mornings over the Oklahoma training track. There is no timetable for his return.
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Magnitude, who has risen to the top of the older dirt male division through the first half of the year, returned to the worktab Sunday morning at Saratoga, breezing a half-mile in 50.23 seconds over the Oklahoma training track.
Najavo Warrior scored his second consecutive graded stakes win with a dominant performance in the Grade 3, $300,000 Cornhusker Handicap, and J J Grey continued his own consistent campaign with a win in the $250,000 Iowa Derby to highlight Saturday night's card at Prairie Meadows.
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Drivers Chris Page and Chris Lems, along with trainer Steve Carter, had a pair of victories in $50,000 Ohio Sires Stakes tests for 2-year-old trotters on Saturday night at Scioto Downs.
