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Crude Velocity will take an unbeaten record to the Grade 2 Pat Day Mile at Churchill Downs on May 2. On Saturday at Santa Anita, Crude Velocity won an allowance race at 6 1/2 furlongs by 6 3/4 lengths without urging from jockey Florent Geroux. Crude Velocity earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 100.
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Hope Road, winner of the Grade 1 Ballerina Stakes at Saratoga last August and three Grade 3 stakes, has been retired, according to owners Barbara and Ron Perry.
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Jockey Tyler Baze recorded his 3,000th Thoroughbred win in the United States aboard Gypsy Tears in Sunday's ninth race at Santa Anita. Gypsy Tears, trained by Val Brinkerhoff, closed from seventh in a field of 10 to win a starter allowance at six furlongs.
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Point Dume, who gave veteran trainer Tim Kreiser his first graded stakes victory in Saturday's Grade 2 Carter Stakes at Aqueduct, could try to give Kreiser his second in the Grade 3, $175,000 Westchester here on May 9.
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There wasn't much question of where Percy's Bar's connections would go to celebrate her dominant victory in the Grade 1 Ashland Stakes on opening day at Keeneland, a win that has propelled her to the Kentucky Oaks.
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The Beyer Speed Figure for the Tampa Bay Derby was changed for a second time. The Puma, who won the race, has now been assigned a 94 Beyer for his victory. The Beyer was initially a 95 but was soon changed to an 89.
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Capitan Danny, second in both of his starts this meet at Tampa Bay Downs, may finally be spotted for a win in Wednesday's featured first-level allowance/optional $16,000 claiming event at a mile and 40 yards.
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Fabulous Candy won the first race on opening day of the Tampa Bay Downs 2025-26 meeting and it foreshadowed what was ahead for trainer Juan Carlos Avila. With four weeks, or 16 cards, remaining in the season, Avila has 37 winners, eight more than his nearest rival, Juan Arriagada, and looks well on his way to achieving his first training title in North America.
Wagering on Thoroughbred races at U.S. tracks plummeted in March by 12.4 percent, dropping from $931.2 million in the same month of last year to $816.2 million in March of this year, according to figures distributed on Monday by Equibase.
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Further Ado, the runaway winner of the Grade 1 Blue Grass Stakes on Saturday at Keeneland who figures to be one of the favorites in the May 2 Kentucky Derby, closed at 17-1 in the final Kentucky Derby Future Wager pool.
