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Majestic Lucia finished a distant fourth in her last two starts in graded stakes, but Victor Barboza Jr. is not done testing his 3-year-old filly. The Florida-bred will return from a short break in the $200,000 Cathryn Sophia on Tuesday at Parx .
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Tom Wenzel will be the first to tell you that Aloha Breeze is best suited to sprints. But the mare has been so dominant at Emerald Downs, where she has 13 wins and three seconds from 18 starts, that she's certain to go favored in the Emerald Distaff.
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Ponder and Dream will be the likely favorite in the $200,000 Smarty Jones Stakes on Tuesday at Parx Racing, a race that could launch him into contention for the Grade 1 Pennsylvania Derby next month.
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Trainer Wesley Ward is shipping Touchy for Emerald Downs's marquee race, Sunday's Longacres Mile. Stakes-placed Touchy is the 7-5 morning-line favorite against seven local runners in the ninth race on a 12-race card that includes six stakes.
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The $150,000 Vice Regent Stakes wouldn't be the same without the Saratoga-based Outlaw Kid, who won the five-furlong inner turf dash in 2023-24. The stretch-runner meets six other Ontario-breds in Sunday's renewal of the race at Woodbine and should go favored under Sahin Civaci.
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Hunting Glory and Cooperstown Boy won the pair of New York Sire Stakes divisions for 3-year-old male pacers on Thursday night (August 13) at MGM Yonkers Raceway in similar fashion, rallying by the favorite in the stretch from the pocket.
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Every Hambletonian Day adventure is a bit unique. I call it an adventure because my travels take me all over the facility and typically the next stop during the day is unknown. Less familiar people - though very relevant - are going to be the theme of this column if you can hang in there for a few paragraphs, as I prefer to zig when others zag.
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The $300,000 Grade 2 Carl Milstein Memorial, set to go postward on Saturday night at Northfield Park, brings together sophomore pacers from regional programs throughout North America for the first time this summer, with nine set to do battle.
