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The veteran 5-year-olds King of Gosford and Sorrento Sky were slightly overlooked in Grade 2 stakes at Del Mar last Saturday, but they produced their best races of the year at an optimum time.
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Jena Antonucci, best known for winning the Belmont and Travers Stakes with Arcangelo in 2023, has had a presence at Del Mar this summer and may have runners in California this fall.
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Nitrogen, second in the Whitney Stakes on Aug. 8, returned to the work tab Wednesday, breezing a half-mile in 50.40 seconds, according to Daily Racing Form clocker Donald Harris, who caught Nitrogen's first quarter in 26 seconds.
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Much of the action at Charles Town on Friday will run through Saffie Joseph Jr., who has nine horses entered in stakes on the 13-race card.
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Antonio Fresu, a native of Italy who has been riding in Southern California year-round since 2023, and Samuel Marin, who rode at Tampa in the winter and primarily at Colonial Downs in the summer, will both be riding at Belmont when the fall meet begins on Sept. 18.
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When Banishing won the Grade 2 Charles Town Classic last year, he did so in the midst of a busy campaign where he could seem to do no wrong. If the 6-year-old is going to repeat in the $1 million race on Friday, he will have to shake off a more erratic recent record.
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The first of two Breeders' Cup Classic futures pools opens at noon Eastern on Friday. The futures pool is win-only with a base wager of $2 and comprises 24 betting options, 23 individual horses and “all others.”
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For more than a year now, Sounds Like a Plan has been as consistent as one could ask. Seven starts. Five wins. A head loss. A half-length loss. The only thing Sounds Like a Plan has yet to do is win a stakes race. He could check that box Friday when the streaking 4-year-old gelding starts in the $200,000 West Point Stakes for New York-breds at Saratoga.
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Storm Miami has been graded stakes-placed in two of her three starts since becoming a long-distance specialist and Friday at Saratoga looms the likely favorite to finally become a graded stakes winner in the Grade 3, $225,000 Waya.
Camila Hargrove, who won back-to-back races last week at Finger Lakes and Saratoga with just her fifth and sixth career mounts, will not be in any hurry to join the local riding colony any time soon her agent, Jose Santos, said Wednesday.
