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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.
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Saffie Joseph Jr. has two horses in each of Friday's co-featured optional-claiming and allowance races, both of which are restricted to Florida-bred fillies and mares. City Minute and Sapphire Girl go 7 1/2 furlongs on turf in the fourth race, while Love Like Lucy and Jestina are among the key contenders in the sixth.
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Kentucky Derby: Who's hot, who's not for March 18, 2026
Streisand, the Southern Hemisphere 2-year-old filly, has already won a seven-figure race in Australia this year, in the Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes at Caulfield Racecourse in Melbourne on Feb. 21. The manner of her victory in that six-furlong race, stalking the pace and winning by three-quarters of a length, has pushed Streisand to the fore of contenders in Saturday's Group 1 Golden Slipper Stakes at six furlongs at Rosehill Gardens in Sydney.
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Connect, a son of Curlin, has Grade 2 Risen Star runner-up Chip Honcho looking to punch his Kentucky Derby ticket in Saturday's Louisiana Derby – and Connect's sireline will need to help balance out a sprint-type female family.
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Martha Claussen has spent 29 years championing racing at Sam Houston Race Park since the track brought her on as publicity director in 1997, and on Saturday her efforts will be lauded during the Texas Champions Day card in Houston.
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The successful stallion Stormy Atlantic, who spent the last several years of his life back at his birthplace, Bridlewood Farm in Florida, has died from the infirmities of old age at 32, the farm reported Tuesday evening.
