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2025 Sovereign Awards: Mansetti named Canadian Horse of the Year
King’s Plate winner Mansetti was crowned the 2025 Canadian Horse of the Year at the 51st Sovereign Awards ceremony in suburban Toronto on Thursday evening.
Ron GierkinkApr 23, 2026
King’s Plate winner Mansetti was crowned the 2025 Canadian Horse of the Year at the 51st Sovereign Awards ceremony in suburban Toronto on Thursday evening.
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While it is way too early to put any thought into the Road to the Hambletonian since some of the top 3-year-old trotters won't even qualify for weeks, we've seen enough horses return to at least consider the sophomore pacing crop.
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Trainer Richard "Nifty" Norman will have his stable out in force this weekend with prime candidates both in Friday's fifth preliminary leg of the MGM Ursula McIntyre Series at Yonkers and then on Saturday in the $50,000 conclusion to the Bobby Weiss Series for sophomore male pacers at Mohegan Sun Pocono Downs.
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Four $75,000 James K. Hackett finals took center stage on Thursday at Miami Valley. The Hackett Memorials are for Ohio- sired 3-year-olds and usually feature returning 2-year-old champions.
David Aragona's TimeformUS Highlight Horse for Friday, April 24, at Aqueduct.
When live racing resumes Friday (April 24) night at The Meadowlands, patrons will have an extra 20-cent Pick-5 as well as an additional 10-cent Hi-5 (or Pentafecta, if you prefer) to titillate their exotic-bet palates.
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Subsanador, a Grade 1 winner in 2024 who was fourth in the Grade 3 San Carlos Stakes at Santa Anita on March 29 in his first start in 18 months, is tentatively scheduled to start in the $200,000 Lake Ouachita Stakes at Oaklawn Park on May 2.
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Jockey Vicente Del-Cid, a leading rider at Delta Downs and Evangeline Downs in recent years who currently ranks among the 20 leading riders in the nation in wins, left California earlier this month and told his agent that he plans to retire.
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Michael and Jules Iavarone and Ira Rothblut’s TCC Stables have acquired an interest in Kentucky Derby contender The Puma. Terms of the deal are not being disclosed at this time.
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The inexact science of preparing a horse for a grueling race like the Kentucky Derby was never more on display than Thursday at Churchill Downs, with trainers using very diverse methods of bringing their 3-year-olds up to the big event. Even within their own barns.