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Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame member Paul MacDonell concluded his harness racing career with a victory behind his trainee Ungawa in Sunday night's fourth race at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
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Rumble And Sway uncorked a menacing bid off a helmet to collar his rivals for a 1:51 1/5 victory in the $80,000 Kentucky Championship Series third preliminary for 2-year-old pacing colts and geldings on Sunday night (Aug. 23) at The Red Mile.
Five years ago to the week, trotter Captain Corey and horseman Ake Svanstedt teamed to win the Earl Beal Trot up the road from Harrah's Philadelphia at Pocono Downs. Five years on and the pair are stlll teaming for winner's circle visits, as now-sire Captain Corey and trainer-driver Svanstedt combined to win the two divisions of the fourth and final preliminary leg of the Pennsylvania Sire Stakes for 2-year-old male trotters on Sunday at Philly, which offered $170,842 between the two PaSS divisions and three sections of the PA Stallion Series.
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Left alone on the lead, Proletariat won his second consecutive turf stakes in Sunday’s Grade 2 Del Mar Derby.
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Sophomore pacing fillies battled in two New York Sire Stakes divisions on Sunday afternoon's program at Tioga Downs.
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Five Grade 1 winners, led by millionaires Ways and Means, R Disaster and Kilwin, top a field of 12 older fillies and mares entered Sunday for Saturday’s Grade 1, $500,000 Ballerina Stakes, one of five undercard stakes on the 14-race Travers Day program.
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The complexion of Sunday’s $200,000 Albany Stakes at Saratoga changed the moment the gates opened: Tricky Business came away alertly from his inside post, Talk to Me Jimmy broke at the rear of the seven-horse field.
Aventure scored a sharp win in the Group 1 Prix Jean Romanet on Sunday at Deauville Racecourse in France, handing favored Diamond Necklace the first defeat of her career, and doing so handily.
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Jose Ortiz, a three-time leading rider at Saratoga who is 0 for 10 in the Travers, will be aboard Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes winner Golden Tempo against nine rivals in the Travers, the highlight of a 14-race card with six graded stakes.
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Happy Offering, a steadily improving gelding trained by Chuck Spina, earned his first New Jersey-bred stakes victory in the $100,000 Charles Hesse III Handicap on Sunday at Monmouth Park.
