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Not only did Curlin complete his personal Triple Crown with Golden Tempo's victory in the Kentucky Derby, having now sired a winner of each of the Triple Crown races, he had a unique Derby trifecta. Golden Tempo edged Renegade, who is out of a Curlin mare. Third-place finisher Ocelli is by Curlin's son Connect.
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Romantic Thor almost certainly earned a tilt at the HK$13 million G1 Standard Chartered Champions & Chater Cup (2400m) after the Irish import revelled in rain-affected conditions to claim the HK$4.2 million G3 Queen Mother Memorial Cup Handicap (2400m) at Sha Tin on Sunday (3 May).
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John's Dream captured the $20,000 Virginia Breeders Fund aged male pace at Shenandoah Downs Saturday - one of four Breeders race divisions on the program - and reached the winner's circle for the 35th time in Virginia. The 13-year-old Dream Away gelding won his 56th race overall and pushed his career earnings to $427,692.
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Less than 48 hours after Golden Tempo won the 152nd running of the Kentucky Derby, 3-year-old Standardbreds will take center stage on Monday (May 4) when a trio of eliminations each for the Oak Grove Trotting Derby and Oak Grove Trotting Oaks headline a blockbuster 15-race harness racing program at Oak Grove Racing, Gaming & Hotel, which opens the fortnight-long Oak Grove Festival of Racing.
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Friday’s program at Santa Anita has a carryover of $42,057 in the $2 pick six.
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Trainer Chad Brown said he had always thought of City Girl as one who could have stakes potential. It might have taken more than two years, but the 5-year-old mare made up for lost time in an upset score over graded stakes winners Dynamic Pricing and Laurelin in the Grade 3 Beaugay Stakes on Sunday at Aqueduct.
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The Friday night prime-time broadcast of the Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs in Louisville averaged 2.4 million viewers, according to Churchill’s broadcast partner, NBC Sports. That's a record for the race, and is nearly eight times the average viewership for the race in the prior three years.
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Grammy Girl picked up her third straight stakes victory in the Grade 3 Vagrancy on Sunday at Aqueduct.
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Hey Jessie won her first stakes in nearly 17 months in Sunday’s $100,000 Santa Barbara Stakes for fillies and mares on turf at Santa Anita, repelling a bid from an unexpected rival through the stretch.
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G T Five Hundred made his Woodbine debut a winning one in Sunday’s $106,400 Thorncliffe Stakes when mowing down the speed late in the 5 1/2-furlong dash for older runners.
