On Saturday, Rey Magnerio will race for the first time at Morphettville Racecourse in Adelaide in the Group 1 Goodwood Stakes, where he rates as the expected favorite in another lucrative race.
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Talk to Me Jimmy, who had been mentioned as a possible starter in the Preakness Stakes, will stay home to run in Saturday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Peter Pan Stakes, trainer Rudy Rodriguez said Wednesday.
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Dry Power, who finished ninth of 10 in the Grade 1 La Troienne at Churchill Downs on May 1, will wheel back in eight days in Saturday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Ruffian Stakes at Aqueduct.
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Munnings Express will try seven furlongs for the first time as she is likely auditioning for a stakes opportunity somewhere when she heads a field of five entered in a multi-conditioned allowance/optional-claiming race Friday at Aqueduct.
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The Grade 1 Blue Grass Stakes understandably proved to be well beyond the scope for Moonstrocity, whose half-court heave into Kentucky Derby contention came up well short. Nevertheless, the Tiz the Law colt could get his first victory in the sixth race on Friday at Gulfstream Park, a $68,000 maiden special weight at a mile on dirt.
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Seal Team was withdrawn from Saturday’s Grade 2 Charles Whittingham Stakes at Santa Anita after trainer Richard Mandella said he was unsatisfied with a blood test taken from the 6-year-old horse in days before the race. Mandella mentioned the Grade 1 Shoemaker Mile on turf on May 25 as a goal. Seal Team was third by 1 1/4 lengths in the Grade 3 American Stakes at a mile on turf on April 18.
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Off the heels of a four-win day at Santa Anita, jockey Kazushi Kimura heads to Aqueduct Saturday, where he has three mounts, including a pair of stakes. Most notably, Kimura rides Trendsetter, upset winner of the Grade 3 Lexington at Keeneland, in the Peter Pan Stakes.
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Needing a better start going a shorter trip, Lady Ilze looks to breakthrough against eight older fillies and mares in the featured sixth race Friday at Churchill Downs. This contest, like her last-out fifth at Keeneland, is a second-level allowance, but has an $80,000 claiming option and is carded at one mile, a half-furlong shorter than the Keeneland race.
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The highly anticipated 3-year-old season debut of the undefeated Beau Jangles highlights this Saturday’s racing action at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
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Skeptical bettors are back in business Friday at Santa Anita. The $2 pick six begins with a $42,057 carryover, and cynics will consider a trio of short-price favorites to be vulnerable at the end of the card.
