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Trainer Michael Tomlinson claimed Harrodsburg, on behalf of owners Rod Hatfield and Bud Hatfield, for $50,000 in May 2024. Harrodsburg has not run for a claiming tag since, and on Saturday he won the Grade 3 Bango Stakes by three-quarters of a length over Built.
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If Waralo takes to the new turf course at Belmont Park this fall like he has the soon-to-be-closed grass course at Aqueduct, he could have a few more productive years.
McCready relished both the wet going and the distance Saturday when he powered to a 2 1/2-length win over Kravitz in the $150,000 Kent at Delaware Park.
The improving Manitoba-bred Brachetto posted a huge upset in the Saturday’s Grade 3 Marine at Woodbine while stamping himself as a prime contender for the Aug. 15 King’s Plate, Canada’s most prestigious race.
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For the first time since the 2024 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, Immersive won a graded stakes race, and she did so in dramatic fashion capturing the Fleur de Lis on Saturday at Churchill Downs.
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The mare Miss Vyvyanne embarrassed a good group of males under Woodbine’s leading rider Pietro Moran in Saturday’s Grade 2, $212,000 Highlander, a five-furlong inner turf dash.
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Pin Up Betty reached the winner’s circle for the first time in a year with a two-length repeat score in Saturday’s $275,000 Anchorage Stakes for fillies and mares on the Churchill Downs turf.
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Matt Rose's analysis of selected races from the Sunday 6/28 and Monday 6/29 cards at Ocean Downs.
In her third attempt, Estrange won her first Group 1 in Saturday’s $455,000 Pretty Polly Stakes for fillies and mares at the Curragh in Ireland, arguably the most attractive win of her nine-race career.
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Five jockeys, including defending meet leading rider Irad Ortiz Jr., will miss several days at the beginning of the Saratoga meet due to suspensions handed them by the New York stewards at last summer’s Saratoga season and, in the case of Ortiz and Luis Saez, penalties assessed them from Delaware Park stewards earlier this month.
