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Nitrogen, runner-up to Sovereignty in the Grade 1 Whitney Stakes on Aug. 8, will not run in the Grade 2, $400,000 Locust Grove Stakes at Churchill Downs on Sept. 13 and instead will ship to Belmont Park with one of the options for her next start being the Grade 1, $1 million Jockey Club Gold Cup on Sept. 18, trainer Mark Casse said Saturday.
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Talk about a couple in perfect harmony. Three times this year Yannick Gingras has driven the Trond Smedshammer-trained Walspea, and three times this year the pair have made it to the winner's circle. In Friday night's feature at the Meadowlands, the prolific pairing took the fourth and final $40,000 leg of the Miss Versatility for open mare trotters in a dazzling lifetime-best 1:50 2/5.
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Detonater Hanover posted his first career Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) victory while winning the lone C$150,000 Gold Leg 4 division for 2-year-old trotting colts on Friday (Sept. 4) at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
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Matt Bax pupil Storybook Love, who surprised last fall to win the Grade 1 Breeders Crown 2-Year-Old Filly Trot, notched the first win of her sophomore season with a comfortable 1:53 1/5 victory on home turf at Woodbine Mohawk Park in the first of two divisions of the C$156,000 Grade 3 Simcoe Stakes for 3-year-old trotting fillies on Friday night (Sept. 4).
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Kountry Plunge (Brian Sears) took the $110,200 New York Sire Stakes (NYSS) event for 2-year-old trotting fillies at Vernon Downs on Friday (September 4).
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Thought Process is undefeated in two starts this year and will be favored to win her sixth stakes in her 11th career start in Monday's Grade 2 John C. Mabee Stakes for fillies and mares at 1 1/8 miles on turf at Del Mar.
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A crummy start could not prevent the heavily favored Daytona Diamond from a come-from-behind victory in Friday’s $101,000 Generous Portion Stakes for California-bred 2-year-old fillies at Del Mar.
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Velora followed her smart-looking debut win last month with a solid 2 1/4-length victory in Friday’s $200,000 Seeking the Ante Stakes for New York-bred juvenile fillies at Saratoga that may set her up for a Grade 1 try in the Frizette next month at Belmont Park.
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Supercharger may not be the first 3-year-old that comes to mind when people think of Cherie DeVaux's banner 2026 campaign, but the colt kept the party going for the trainer when he won his first graded stakes last month. He will go for his second in the Grade 3, $500,000 Old Dominion Derby on Monday at Colonial Downs.
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Chummers looks to put the bow on a terrific summer for himself and his trainer Ray Handal when he wheels back on short rest to run in Monday's $200,000 Gio Ponti Stakes for 3-year-olds at Saratoga.
