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It's not even Halloween yet, but trainer Graham Motion is already looking forward to Thanksgiving weekend, at least where his turf filly Bless Her is concerned. Motion believes the 1 5/16-mile distance of the $500,000 Jockey Club Oaks on Nov. 28 at Belmont Park will suit Bless Her very well. Motion just doesn't want to wait that long to run Bless Her so he plans to cut the Twirling Candy filly back to 1 1/8 miles in Friday's Grade 3, $200,000 Sands Point at Belmont.
For a nine-race program without an allowance race or stakes, there is an underlying importance to Friday's action at Santa Anita.
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The fast worker Gray Dee One returns from a layoff in Friday's Woodbine headliner for nonwinners-of-two Ontario-sired allowance types and $40,000 claimers. She looks good to go in the seven-furlong Tapeta sprint that lured seven other fillies and mares.
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Todd McCarthy had a Kentucky Sire Stakes hat trick for the second straight card on Tuesday afternoon at Cumberland Run as 3-year-old trotters kicked off their series.
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The Massachusetts Breeders Stakes 3-year-old eligibles faced off for $324,000 in purses at Plainridge Park on Tuesday (Oct. 20) in single divisions, except for the pacing fillies. The day was highlighted by four horses sweeping their divisions and three career-best efforts. However, the trotting gelding Geologic and his driver, Yannick Gingras, made the biggest news of all. Gingras won a total of four stakes during the afternoon for the second time this year, including teaming Geologic to a record-breaking performance in his third straight stake victory.
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When Leave It To Luther (1:53 1/5, $4.20) won the fourth race at Plainridge Park on Tuesday (Oct. 20) afternoon, it vaulted longtime New England horseman Randy Bickmore to the 2,000th training win of his career.
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The favorites had a rough time of it in each of the two $47,550 divisions of the Davidia Hanover, the John Simpson Sr. Stake for 2-year-old trotting fillies, on Tuesday afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, with photo finishes going to a 11-1 shot (the second choice) over a 21-1 proposition in one cut and a horse sent off at 7-1 just ahead of a 12-1 shot in the other section.
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The final four post position draws for the Grade 1 Breeders Crown championships at Eldorado Scioto Downs took place Tuesday evening (Oct. 20) at a draw party held at Pinnacle Golf Club.
