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Sabian seems to have discovered a knack for turf later in his career and trainer Victor Barboza Jr. hopes to take advantage in the eighth race at Gulfstream Park on Friday, a first-level statebred allowance at five furlongs.
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There will be a changing of the guards Friday in the $200,000 Lake Hamilton at Oaklawn Park. Skelly won the first three runnings of the six-furlong Lake Hamilton for 4-year-olds and up. But with one of Oaklawn's most prolific sprinters now retired, the race's fourth renewal is highly competitive.
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The Gimpanzee filly Concise didn't exactly make short work of her opposition, but the answer to every question she was asked in the Bobby Weiss Trotting Series for fillies was "Correct" - she won all three of the preliminaries and then the $50,000 Weiss Championship on Tuesday afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania.
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Thistledown kicks off its stakes schedule during the Kentucky Derby simulcast card on Saturday with the $75,000 Michael F. Rowland Memorial for older Ohio-accredited runners.
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Laurel Park will run its first two races for juveniles this week, bringing out many of the Mid-Atlantic region’s most notable 2-year-old trainers. Jerry Robb, John Salzman Jr., and Jose Corrales entered 11 of the 12 horses across the two races, which will be run Friday and Saturday.
With the eyes of the Thoroughbred world on Louisville this week, spring begins for another racetrack near the Ohio River as well.
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It was déjà vu all over again on the Kentucky Derby front Tuesday at Churchill Downs with the two Japanese contenders, Danon Bourbon and Wonder Dean, the most active members of the prospective field during the special training window for Derby/Oaks horses for a second day in a row.
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Greg Reinhart's analysis of the Thursday 4/30 card at Yonkers Raceway.
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Donna Barton Brothers, the former jockey who has been the ontrack reporter for NBC during its Kentucky Derby coverage for the past 26 years, will retire from the role after NBC’s Triple Crown coverage this year.
Brad Free's Santa Anita Horses to Watch for week of April 24-26, 2025
