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Allowed to set her own pace, Thought Process was impossible to catch in the Grade 2 Rodeo Drive Stakes at Santa Anita on Saturday in a prep race for the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Keeneland on Oct. 31.
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A turf miler with early speed and a late kick is a very dangerous horse. Rhetorical has both and put them to good use winning the Coolmore Turf Mile for the second year in a row on Saturday at Keeneland.
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Fresh off a 12-1 victory in last week's Grade 1 Canadian Trotting Classic, Nix Nacken pulled off another win at double-digit odds in the Grade 1 $575,000 Kentucky Futurity for 3-year-old male trotters on Saturday evening at The Red Mile, prevailing at 17-1 and equaling his own world record of 1:50 for a sophomore gelding.
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Hughes had a comfortable lead in the stretch of the Grade 1 American Pharoah Stakes at Santa Anita on Saturday when jockey Juan Hernandez began thinking of the undefeated colt’s next scheduled assignment in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Keeneland on Oct. 3
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Trainer Nancy Takter snagged the top two finishing spots of the $300,000 Grade 1 61st Kentucky Filly Futurity when her trainee She's Moni overcame a second-tier draw to seize the front and never look back for a lifetime-best equaling 1:50 1/5 victory over stablemate Madam Cheval on Saturday (Oct. 3) at The Red Mile.
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Todd Pletcher had trained the Breeders’ Futurity winner three of the last four years and five times overall, and he got his record-tying sixth win in the race when American History ran down Coach Pope and Q B Rocket to capture the Grade 1, $648,125 Breeders’ Futurity by one length Saturday at Keeneland.
Trainer Whit Beckman said he doesn’t know if Regaled loves Delaware Park, or a wet track, or a wet track at Delaware Park. But when the 5-year-old mare splashed home in the mud to win her second straight Grade 3 Delaware Handicap on Saturday, he didn’t need an answer.
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Trainer Whit Beckman won two graded races in that five-minute span starting with Let Em Know, who bounced back from a tough-trip fifth in last month’s Grade 1 Summer Stakes at Woodbine to win Saturday’s Grade 2, $250,000 Pilgrim Stakes for 2-year-old turf males. As he was posing for the win photo in the Belmont Park winner’s circle, Beckman was glancing at his cell phone as he watched Regaled win the Grade 3, $500,000 Delaware Handicap for the second consecutive year.
Barbadian Runner bounced back in emphatic fashion to win the $200,000 Battery Park Stakes on Saturday at Delaware Park, flying late to snipe the front-runner Cooke Creek by three-quarters of a length.
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The 4-year-old filly Classic Q has won big races before, but she has never won a big race running quite like she did Saturday at Keeneland in the First Lady Stakes.
