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Maida was cruising on the lead through solid fractions in Sunday’s Grade 2 Honorable Miss Stakes at Saratoga when she was confronted by the heavily favored Grand Job at the top of the stretch.
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Splash of Bourbon made quite a splash in Sunday’s $150,500 Thunder Bay at Woodbine by winning her third in a row and her first stakes for red-hot trainer Sid Attard.
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Listenupshance and Maximum Bourbon, first and second in Saturday’s Grade 1 Bing Crosby Stakes at Del Mar, are likely to have a rematch in the Grade 2 Santa Anita Sprint Championship on Sept. 27.
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Mark Casse was already impressed by his filly Counting Stars’ performance in winning Saturday’s Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks at Saratoga by 4 1/4 lengths. He was even more impressed when he realized his 3-year-old filly ran 1 1/8 miles nearly a full second faster than the older male Wynstock did winning an allowance race at the same distance earlier on the card.
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Cornucopian, the brilliant sprinter who won Grade 3 stakes at Santa Anita and Churchill Downs earlier this year, has been euthanized after sustaining an injury in Saturday’s Grade 1 Bing Crosby Stakes at Del Mar.
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White Abarrio joined a handful of other leading candidates for the much-anticipated, $1 million Whitney Stakes on Aug. 8 to get in a serious work this weekend at Saratoga, breezing four furlongs in 46.87 seconds over the main track on Sunday per Daily Racing Form with his regular rider Irad Ortiz Jr. aboard.
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Golden Tempo, the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes winner, has gotten reacquainted with Saratoga’s main track this week, culminating Sunday morning with his first workout here, going a half-mile in 48.65 seconds, per Daily Racing Form.
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Jailbird Jog prepared for next week's Hambletonian Oaks eliminations in fine style Saturday night at the Meadowlands, taking the $68,650 Tompkins-Geers Stake for 3-year-old trotting fillies in a lifetime-best 1:51 2/5.
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Two $75,000 divisions of the Ohio Sires Stakes for 2-year-old colt and gelding pacers were held Saturday (July 25) at Eldorado Scioto Downs. Both races went in 1:52, but were won by horses in different stages of their initial campaign - Night Surfer prevailed in his first lifetime start, but it was Don'ttruckwithme who is now undefeated after taking his first three lifetime races in impressive fashion.
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Atlee Bender ended the week of racing at Harrah's Hoosier Park in style, racking up five wins on the night, including sweeping both $67,500 divisions of Indiana Sire Stakes for 2-year-old trotting fillies on Saturday, July 25.
