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Pocono: Analysis for Saturday 8/22/26
Derick Giwner's analysis of the Sun Stakes card on Saturday Afternoon 8/22 at Mohegan Sun Pocono.
Derick GiwnerAug 20, 2026
Derick Giwner's analysis of the Sun Stakes card on Saturday Afternoon 8/22 at Mohegan Sun Pocono.
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King of Gosford can settle anywhere in the first part of a turf stakes in California – on the lead or toward the back of the field. Both styles have worked, making King of Gosford a danger in Saturday's Grade 2 Del Mar Mile.
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Two contenders drew side by side in similar outside posts for Saturday's Grade 2 Del Mar Oaks, but there was no similarity in the trips they encountered last out. Good-trip Kensington Lane and bad-trip Raiding Party will break from posts 9 and 10.
The first leg of the 2026 Maryland Sire Stakes for 2-year-old fillies got underway Wednesday night at Ocean Downs, and it did not take long for the newest generation of Maryland Sire Stakes stars to make their mark.
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Saratoga-based Reagan's Flame goes for her second stakes victory at the Woodbine meet in Saturday's Grade 3, $175,000 Seaway for fillies and mares.
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Joe Toye, who trained Roll Dem Bones at the start of a recent claiming spree, has claimed him back twice and has him entered in race 9 Saturday, an $8,000 claiming sprint with an enhanced purse of $20,000, the highest for non-maidens on the 10-race card.
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A veteran turf sprinter who is nearly as reliable as the Del Mar ocean breeze returns to his favorite stomping grounds Saturday in the Grade 2 Green Flash Handicap.
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It's true that the Grade 1, 1 1/4-mile Pacific Classic does not include division leaders Sovereignty and Golden Tempo, or recently retired Nysos and Journalism. But so what? There has never been a more eclectic field for the race.
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Captain Naughty strolled and Bahama Momma pounced to win their respective $80,000 second-preliminary divisions of the Kentucky Championship Series on Wednesday afternoon (Aug. 19) at The Red Mile.