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The Pennsylvania State Senate overwhelmingly passed a bill Thursday that overhauls the state's racing statute and sets up a new funding mechanism for the state's racing regulatory agencies by sending more of the sport's casino subsidies to a merged racing commission.
A full 8 1/2 months before the Kentucky Derby, the road to the Derby commenced with the Iroquois, run at the home of the Derby.
The record of American horses in international events leaves something to be desired. This can be explained away, depending on your point of view, as an endorsement of the U.S. racing circuit as rewarding enough to satisfy the temptations of widespread wanderlust or as an indictment of the U.S. racehorse as frail, drug-addled, and incapable of running on anything other than a monotonous dirt oval. As with American politics, there is no middle ground.
Nyquist, the undefeated winner of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Keeneland on Oct. 31, resumed galloping earlier this week and will have a workout before the end of the month.
Firing Line, second in the Kentucky Derby earlier this year, and second in the Los Alamitos Futurity last December, is scheduled to return to trainer Simon Callaghan's stable at Santa Anita on Sunday. Callaghan said he intends to take a patient approach to the start of Firing Line's 4-year-old season in 2016.
A stakes winner on turf, Hollywood Don will switch surfaces and run in his second Grade 1 of the year on dirt in the $300,000 Los Alamitos Futurity on Dec. 19.
Ima Fearless Hero began the year as a highly regarded colt in trainer Jose Antonio Flores's stable. He will the end the season as a gelding, and perhaps a multiple stakes winner.
Lily Pod is back on the main track in an optional claimer at six furlongs at Los Alamitos on Sunday. Trainer Richard Baltas has confidence Lily Pod can win for the second time in her sixth start.
Emotional Kitten is the marquee name in the $50,000 Miss America Stakes, a 1 1/16-mile turf race for fillies and mares at Golden Gate Fields on Sunday, closing day of the fall meet. But she might have her hands full with Qiaona and Elegant Bel, who both come off a race on Tapeta and run best on turf.
