No North American trainer has won as many dirt stakes during 2026 as Saffie Joseph Jr. Joseph's total through Nov. 12 stood at 41, one more than Brad Cox and Bob Baffert. Among those 41 dirt stakes wins, 15 have come in sprints restricted to fillies and mares. Joseph has a barn stocked with that type of horse, as evidenced by the Dream Supreme Stakes on Saturday at Churchill.
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The Meadowlands – as well as the entire sport of harness racing – has one big night left in its 2026 stakes arsenal, and the final eight shots will be fired Saturday (Nov. 14) night at the mile oval, when $2.27 million in purses will be up for grabs.
After failing to draw into the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint two weeks ago, Fanshell Beach will take on 11 rivals in Saturday's $175,000 Stewart Manor Stakes for 2-year-old fillies at Belmont Park.
Holmby and Sea's No Joke enter the $100,000 Desi Arnaz Stakes on Saturday at Del Mar with vastly different levels of experience, but the Bob Baffert trainees make a potent pair in the short field of five juvenile fillies.
In hindsight, trainer Tom Morley wishes he would have run his filly More Champagne against the boys in the Grade 3 Futurity last month instead of the Grade 3 Matron. Faced with similar options this weekend at Belmont Park, Morley has opted to send More Champagne against the boys in Saturday's $175,000 Awad Stakes rather than against the fillies in the $175,000 Stewart Manor.
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Longtime Daily Racing Form cartoonist Pierre Bellocq, familiarly known as "Peb," died Thursday morning following a brief illness at the Princeton, New Jersey Medical Center just 13 days short of his 100th birthday.
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Aside from winning the 2023 Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint, Nobals may be best known for taking the last two editions of the Grade 2 Kennedy Road at Woodbine. The popular 7-year-old usually fires big when venturing north of the border and should be well backed in Saturday's renewal of the Kennedy Road, a six-furlong Tapeta sprint worth $200,000.
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Luke Middlebrook's Hong Kong selections for Saturday, Nov. 14, 2026
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There are few major prizes that elude William Buick, but the LONGINES International Jockeys’ Championship (IJC) at Happy Valley is one of them.
