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Ordonez has springtime stakes on deck for Vodka Vodka, Om N Joy
Vodka Vodka and Om N Joy, half-siblings who were second and third in Grade 1 races on March 7, have springtime stakes at Santa Anita on their schedules.
Steve AndersenMar 18, 2026
Vodka Vodka and Om N Joy, half-siblings who were second and third in Grade 1 races on March 7, have springtime stakes at Santa Anita on their schedules.
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Second-year British handler David Eustace approaches the 149th HK$26 million BMW Hong Kong Derby (2000m) on Sunday (22 March) at Sha Tin with dual representation, but says positioning himself for an early-career crack at Hong Kong’s most prestigious race was always his plan.
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Trainer Pierre Ng is keeping the faith when Sagacious Life contests the HK$26 million 149th BMW Hong Kong Derby (2000m) at Sha Tin on Sunday afternoon (22 March).
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Faust, who ran in one of the fastest six-furlong races of the meet in his last start, is back in at the same distance for Friday's featured ninth race at Oaklawn Park. The race is one of several interesting offerings on the card.
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Neat launches his 2026 campaign Friday in the featured eighth race. The one-mile grass contest, which drew 10 entrants, has an $80,000 claiming option and two allowance conditions – nonwinners of three other than and nonwinners since Sept. 20. Neat, a six-time winner from 16 starts, his bankroll approaching $1 million, qualifies under the latter.
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Mrs. Astor, a six-time stakes winner in the last 16 months, will remain in training after finishing third by a length to Take A Breath in Sunday’s Grade 3 Santa Ana Stakes at Santa Anita.
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23 individual Group 1 winners headline entries for FWD Champions Day on Sunday, 26 April at Sha Tin – all seeking the opportunity to race for the record HK$78 million in prizemoney across three of world racing’s premier contests in Hong Kong.
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Trainer Rodolfph Brisset, whose main base of operation has been Kentucky, wants to maintain a year-round presence in New York and plans to open a division at Belmont Park beginning this spring.
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Steve Asmussen, the winningest trainer ever in North America, has had 28 starters without a victory in the Kentucky Derby. He has but one chance in this year's Derby, Chip Honcho, who goes in Saturday's Louisiana Derby.
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Buetane, fourth as the favorite with a troubled trip in last Saturday’s Virginia Derby at Colonial Downs, is now in New York with the possibility of running in the Grade 2 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct on April 4, “if he works well next week,” trainer Bob Baffert wrote in a text.