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Return to Ellis can help Hot Mash regain form
Hot Mash's most recent start turned into a hot mess, but if she recaptures her summer 2025 Ellis Park form, she'll win the featured seventh race Friday at Ellis.
Marcus HershAug 05, 2026
Hot Mash's most recent start turned into a hot mess, but if she recaptures her summer 2025 Ellis Park form, she'll win the featured seventh race Friday at Ellis.
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Trainer Brad Cox feels that Touch of Fire's best races have come when he has a target to run at. This is the primary reason he will cut his stakes-winning 3-year-old back to a mile Friday in the National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame Stakes.
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It figures to be a more emotionally charged ceremony than usual Friday when the late trainers Christophe Clement and John Shirreffs head a class of 11 inductees into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.
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The Preakness Stakes, which since 1969 has been run two weeks after the Kentucky Derby and three weeks before the Belmont Stakes – save 2020 due to the COVID pandemic – will in 2027 be run at Pimlico on May 23, a Sunday, eight days after its usual place on the calendar.
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Trainer Grant Forster hopes Faithful Departed can do one better than a last-out second in the Belmont Oaks when she heads a field of eight entered to run in the Grade 2, $500,000 Saratoga Oaks scheduled for the 1 3/16 miles over the Mellon turf course.
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Somnium came within a half-length of upsetting the last-out Grade 2 winner Roja in the Andy Guest Stakes on Saturday at Colonial Downs. Trainer Elizabeth Merryman said getting Somnium to this point has been about building confidence.
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In another near-miss in stakes company, Celtic Contender held for second in the Reigh Count on Saturday at Colonial Downs. The race went in near-track record time, making the runner-up's effort all the more encouraging for trainer Hamilton Smith.
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Graham Motion had the only two stakes winners based in the Mid-Atlantic on Arlington Million Day at Colonial Downs, winning the Beverly D. with Gimme a Nother and the Andy Guest with Roja. Both could be working their way to the Breeders' Cup.
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The fastest 4 1/2-furlong race in five years at Santa Anita will be relevant only if 2-year-old colt Early Encore reproduces his smashing debut in Friday's $100,000 Graduation Stakes, a 5 1/2-furlong race for Cal-bred 2-year-olds.
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Kona Gold, the outstanding sprinter of 2000, won 14 of 30 starts and earned more than $2.2 million. On Friday in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Kona Gold will be inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.