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Jeff O’Connor said the first time he cashed a bet on a horse race was at Off-Track Betting in upstate New York and the race he bet on was at Aqueduct. That was 36 years ago.
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The asset that won the Hanshin Stakes for Nu What’s New on Sunday at Churchill Downs is as old as American dirt racing – speed.
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Highway Harmony left her forever mark on Aqueduct in winning Sunday’s $150,000 John Hettinger Stakes for New York-bred females, running the six furlongs in a course-record 1:06.44 in the final stakes race to be run here.
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In a flying finish, Blessed Flyer was up by a head at the wire for a $65.82 upset in the 125th running of the $225,000 Bashford Manor, one of two stakes for 2-year-olds on Sunday's closing day of the spring-summer meet at Churchill Downs.
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Meilani gutted it out in the final furlong to land Sunday’s $101,000 Alywow Stakes while giving trainer Kevin Attard his fourth winner on the Woodbine card.
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Deep Flame proved more than ready for a jump from maiden racing to graded-stakes competition, breezing to a 5 3/4-length victory Sunday at Churchill Downs in the Grade 3, $250,000 Maxfield Stakes.
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Three people still active in the practice of training Thoroughbred racehorses have housed a Horse of the Year in their barn four times, but if the 2026 season ended today, Steve Asmussen would become the only one with five.
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El Potente, the winner of two Grade 3 races at a mile on turf since the beginning of 2025, is on schedule to start for the first time since early March in the Grade 2 Eddie Read Stakes at Del Mar on July 26.
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A fast workout by Sweet Azteca at Santa Anita on Sunday is likely to result in a start in Saturday's Grade 2 Great Lady M. Stakes at Los Alamitos, a race she has won the last two years.
There was no controversy surrounding Benvenuto Cellini’s win in Sunday’s Group 1 Irish Derby at the Curragh, only an attractive win by 1 3/4 lengths to lead a sweep of the trifecta by runners trained by Aidan O’Brien.
