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It may not be as significant as when they sent out the protagonists in the Acorn and Phipps last Friday at Saratoga, but trainers Mark Casse and Chad Brown seem to have the two top contenders in Friday's co-featured first-level turf allowance at Aqueduct.
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Creole Chrome is under consideration for the Indiana Derby after his 18-length win in the $100,000 Louisiana Legends Cheval last Saturday night at Evangeline Downs, according to his trainer, Joe Sharp.
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Multiple Grade/Group 1 winner Mind Your Biscuits, the highest-earning New York-bred of all time, has died at Shadai Farm in Japan, where he has stood his entire stud career. The son of Posse was 13.
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In August 2024, a 2-year-old filly named Exington made her debut at Kentucky Downs, pocketing $17,000 for a third-place finish in a maiden turf sprint with a $170,000 purse. On Friday night at Emerald Downs, the Exington will break from the outside in a conditioned $25,000 claiming race with a purse of $16,500.
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The best kept secret at Woodbine this week is that Friday's card marks the 70th anniversary of the track's official opening day in 1956. Surface-wise, a lot has changed over the years, including the introduction of synthetic racing in 2006 and the installation of an inner turf course in 2019. Trainer Tony Gattellaro runs Philip Banks and Sunday's Well in the featured seventh race on the synthetic Tapeta.
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Viewership for the Belmont Stakes broadcast on FOX’s flagship network peaked at 4.7 million viewers, down 6 percent compared to the peak viewership figure for last year’s broadcast.
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Grand Slam Smile, the near-millionaire Cal-bred mare trained by Sean McCarthy, will point to a sprint stakes at Los Alamitos in an attempt to reach seven figures.
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A deep field of fillies and mares entered the $100,000 Possibly Perfect Stakes, a 1 1/4-mile turf race with little similarity to recent editions.
Vernon Downs will play host to the Empire Breeders Classic (EBC) for sophomore trotting colts & geldings as well as the fillies on Friday (June 12) at a special post time of 12:15 pm.
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Ridge Warren was in the right place at the right time Tuesday afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania - and thus he got to drive Dame Good Time, who equaled the world record for older trotting geldings on a five-eighths-mile track with a tremendous 1:50 2/5 victory during the card's $27,500 fast-class handicap trot.
