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It is not a particularly strong field for a Grade 2, and so what? The defection of Gold Phoenix from the Charles Whittingham Stakes gives the longest shot in the field a better chance to spring an upset Saturday at Santa Anita.
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With all due respect to the horses they are running in the Kentucky Derby, potentially the most exciting 3-year-olds that trainers Bob Baffert and Cherie DeVaux send out Saturday at Churchill Downs meet a few hours earlier in the Grade 2, $600,000 Pat Day Mile. Crude Velocity, trained by Baffert, and Englishman, conditioned by DeVaux, are both 2 for 2.
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Tour Player got the ideal setup six weeks ago when he beat Dragoon Guard in the Royal New Kent Stakes at Colonial Downs. Now, Tour Player returns to his favorite surface and hopes to keep his year-long run of success going when he again meets Dragoon Guard and nine others in Saturday's $200,000 Knicks Go Stakes at Churchill Downs.
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Final Score has the far outside post and a layoff to overcome in Saturday's Grade 1, $1 million American Turf at Churchill Downs. Final Score is one of three graded winners in the field of 14, along with Remember Mamba and Stark Contrast. There are six other stakes winners in the lineup, including Greenwich Village.
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Fulleffort, winner of the Grade 3 Jeff Ruby Steaks who appeared to be training superbly for his first start on dirt in Saturday’s Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, will be scratched from the race due to a chip in his left hind ankle, trainer Brad Cox said Thursday.
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At the three-eighths pole, the question was by how many lengths Parchment Party would win the $200,000 Isaac Murphy Marathon. At the eighth pole, the question was whether he’d win at all.
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The inaugural editions of the $500,000 Oak Grove Trotting Derby, a 3-year-old open, and $300,000 Oak Grove Trotting Oaks, for 3-year-old fillies, lured 19 entrants and 27 entrants, respectively, for a total of six eliminations on Monday (May 4) at Oak Grove Racing, Gaming & Hotel – a day featuring over $600,000 in purses.
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Chad Brown has trained five horses to win the Turf Classic at Churchill Downs and has two for this year's running. Brian Knippenberg, who during all of 2024 trained two winners of any sort, brings last year's Turf Classic runner-up, Mercante. In a battle of the haves vs. the have-nots, Knippenberg might just have enough with Mercante.
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Waggley found about as much trouble as she could find in a scratch-reduced three-horse field, and still prevailed in a long drive, posting a 1 3/4-length score in the $250,000 Kentucky Juvenile on Wednesday at Churchill Downs, the first stakes race of the year for 2-year-olds.
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Trainer Kevin Attard looks to be holding a pair of aces in Saturday's Grade 3, $150,000 Whimsical when he runs Lithe Spirit and American Women in the six-furlong sprint for fillies and mares at Woodbine.
