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It remains to be seen whether any of the 3-year-olds in the $175,000 John Battaglia Memorial on Saturday night at Turfway Park can emerge as legitimate Kentucky Derby candidates. But continuing to perform well and punching a ticket to a bigger-points prep down the line would be a fine accomplishment.
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Damon's Mound may not be the horse he was at 2 and 3 when winning prestigious Grade 2 races like the Saratoga Special and Gallant Bob. But at the age of 6, he is still good enough to come into Saturday's $125,000 Gulfstream Park Sprint off a pair of stakes victories and as the likely favorite.
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The undefeated filly Gratefully has a tough act to follow in the $100,000 Wishing Well Stakes on Saturday at Santa Anita. Before they became division leaders, Queen Maxima in 2025 and Ag Bullet in 2024 launched stakes campaigns by winning the Wishing Well.
Thursday night's (February 19) program at MGM Yonkers Raceway got a boost to the wagering menu when no one hit the Pick 5 on Wednesday (February 18), triggering a $5,614 carryover and a $15,000 pool in the sequence.
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It would be hard to be more Monticello than Greg Merton since he jogged his first horse at age six and was in the business full-time by the time he was 16 at the famed Catskill Mountain oval. On Monday afternoon, the 52-year-old horseman reached another milestone in his long career as he posted his 6,000th win with Lanas Desire in 1:57 3/5 for trainer Art Green.
There is no clear favorite in Saturday’s Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes for Southern Hemisphere 2-year-olds at Caulfield Racecourse in Australia just as there no standout in the next race for some of the same runners, the Group 1 Golden Slipper Stakes on March 21.
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Greg Reinhart's analysis of the Friday 2/20 card at the Meadowlands
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Kevin Plowcha's analysis of the Friday 2/20 card at Woodbine Mohawk Park
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The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority has filed a complaint to its board alleging that Churchill Downs has failed to pay $2.4 million to the authority for services provided in 2025, according to a notice posted to HISA’s website on Wednesday.
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Greg Reinhart's analysis of the Friday 2/20 card at Yonkers Raceway.
