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Edwin Gonzalez has not only been the dominant force in the local jockey colony since the beginning of the current session, he also has proven quite successful on the national stage of late.
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Michael Chang continued an impressive early season form run to reach the 400-win landmark in Hong Kong with a double at Happy Valley on Wednesday night (7 October) as Manfred Man vaulted to the top of the Hong Kong trainers’ championship.
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Armstrong has been all over the class map since returning from an extended layoff and should be prominent in Friday's seventh race for $25,000 claimers at Woodbine
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Last weekend was a microcosm in the evolving career of 39-year-old jockey Adrian Escobedo.
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The well-traveled Good Long Cry will make Belmont Park the 10th stop on her tour of North America's turf courses when she runs in a second-level allowance race scheduled for one mile that goes as the first but serves as the feature on Friday's nine-race card.
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Over the course of 48 hours last week, trainer Will Walden won the Grade 1 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic on Oct. 1 at Belmont and the Grade 1 Coolmore Turf Mile two days later at Keeneland. That's a major accomplishment for a trainer who only turns 35 on Oct. 17, and both winners appear to be among the stronger North American-based contenders for their respective Breeders' Cup races.
On Friday, it will have been nine years and 51 weeks since Barclay Tagg trained a Keeneland winner. If Tiz Dashing breaks Tagg's long Keeneland drought, he'll do so in the longest race the 4-year-old has tried.
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Trainer Jose D'Angelo thought highly enough of Azam this spring to try him against some of the top members of his division in the Grade 3 Peter Pan at Belmont. The promising 3-year-old will find himself facing much more suitable opposition Friday at Gulfstream Park in the afternoon's $54,000 main event.
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The potential field for the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies came into much clearer focus last weekend, even if the results from three major preps might have raised more questions than answers.
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It's called home-field advantage throughout the sporting world, although it is more commonly referred to as horses for courses in racing vernacular. It's a phenomenon that could become relevant on Breeders' Cup Saturday in light of the results from a pair of Grade 2 Breeders' Cup Challenge races decided last week at Keeneland, the Phoenix and Thoroughbred Club of America stakes.
