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In a nod to the Father's Day holiday on June 21, The Meadows played host to two father-son races one day prior, pitting multiple generations of drivers and trainers against each other. Management set the stage for a heartwarming outcome, and a family rich in harness racing history delivered with a thrilling finish, separating father and son by just a nose at the wire.
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Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert’s remarkable streak of 10 consecutive wins in the Los Alamitos Derby now includes a maiden.
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Lagynos is a barn favorite – and who wouldn’t love to have him in the barn? The chestnut capped a perfect Churchill Downs meet for himself, and was part of a huge day for his connections, in the Grade 2, $500,000 Wise Dan Stakes on Saturday’s Stephen Foster undercard beneath the twin spires.
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A new horse from the class of 2023 now wears the crown, and while it was not an earthquake that brought him to the top, Magnitude, exponentially better this summer than last, has steadily risen to become a mountain of a racehorse.
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The $275,000 American Derby on Saturday at Churchill Downs was, theoretically, preceded by a local prep in the Audubon Stakes on the designated Stephen Foster Preview Day card on May 30.
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When the 4-year-old gelding Hymn rocketed home to win the $175,000 Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash on Saturday at Laurel Park, it meant more to trainer Ron Moquett than a purse or a steppingstone.
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Golden Tempo, the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes winner, will miss a planned start in the Grade 2 Jim Dandy Stakes at Saratoga on Aug. 1 due to a bacterial infection, trainer Cherie DeVaux said Saturday.
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Runaway Again, the 2025 Prince of Wales winner, hugged a live rail until the stretch and then ran down Paramount Prince on the wire to take the Grade 3 Dominion Day on Saturday at Woodbine.
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Coming off a red-hot Colonial meet last summer, trainer Robert Bailes got right back to business when War Humor kicked clear to win the $125,000 Edward P. Evans Stakes on Saturday at Colonial Downs.
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Luminous Beauty, a 6 1/4-length maiden winner at Saratoga during the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival, will look to kick off the elongated 46-day Saratoga summer meet in similar fashion when she heads a field of eight entered in Friday’s $200,000 Schuylerville, one of three stakes carded for the 11-race opening-day program.
