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Trainer Mark Casse said earlier this week that Counting Stars long has been considered one of the stable’s top prospects, and the Triple Crown nominee backed it up Friday at Oaklawn Park with an authoritative, 5 1/2-length win the Grade 2, $1 million Fantasy.
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Haulin Ice once again brought her ‘A’ game to Arkansas on Friday, shuttling to a 1 3/4-length win over Foie Gras in the $250,000 Matron Stakes at Oaklawn Park.
David Aragona TimeformUS Highlight Horse for Saturday, March 28, at Aqueduct.
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Keeneland is increasing the minimum wager for its superfecta from 10 cents to 50 cents and increasing the minimum for its pick three bets from 50 cents to $1, effective at the beginning of this year’s spring meet on April 3, the track announced on Thursday.
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Matt Rose's analysis of the Monday 3/30 card at Yonkers Raceway.
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Book’em Danno, the champion sprinter of 2025, will make his return to the races in the Grade 2, $300,000 Carter Stakes at Aqueduct on April 4. His regular rider, Paco Lopez, will be in the saddle, trainer Derek Ryan said Friday.
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In what is expected to be her final start, the brilliant Japanese mare Namura Clair will attempt to win the first Grade 1 race of her career in her 11th attempt in Sunday’s $2.05 million Takamatsunomiya Kinen at six furlongs at Chukyo Racecourse.
The two-time winners Charlie, Danon Bourbon and Libeccio were the focus of early betting for Saturday’s $227,800 Fukuryu Stakes at Nakayama Racecourse in Japan, the last of the four races in that country’s Kentucky Derby qualifying series.
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Nantasket Beach will be the 127-pound highweight if he goes in Sunday's headliner, an overnight starter handicap for older horses to be decided at a mile and 70 yards over the Tapeta track. The race is the penultimate leg in a mandatory Rainbow 6 sequence that figures to have approximately $2.5 million in the pool if not hit on either Friday or Saturday.
FanDuel TV, the cable network that has broadcast live horse races on a dedicated channel since 1999, will begin to phase out its horse racing studio productions this summer and cease operations as a cable channel at the end of 2027, according to an official familiar with the company’s plans who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
