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Thankfully has posted career-best Beyer Speed Figures in her last two starts, with both races decided over Gulfstream Park's Tapeta course. The question is whether she can duplicate those performances when returning to turf and stepping up in company to face 10 rivals in Friday's wide-open $86,000 allowance feature.
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Racing will begin at 2 p.m. Pacific on most days of the Del Mar summer meeting later this year, the track announced on Wednesday.
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If Fulleffort attempts to follow in the path of others who have exited Turfway Park's series of 3-year-old stakes on Tapeta to compete well on dirt in the Kentucky Derby, he will have the pedigree to bolster that effort. Both sides of his family have shown ability on dirt and turf, with classy route ability as well.
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Lovesick Blues, winner of the Grade 1 Bing Crosby Stakes at Del Mar last summer, and the multiple stakes winners Man O Rose and Om N Joy are finalists for the 2025 California-bred Horse of the Year award.
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While it is certainly the road less traveled, the synthetic path to the Kentucky Derby has proven quite effective the last several years, with at least one horse finishing in the top four in three of the last four Derbies. On Saturday, Brad Cox has Fulleffort in the John Battaglia Memorial, which offers its top five finishers qualifying points to the Derby.
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The two-time stakes winner Stark Contrast will miss Sunday’s $100,000 Pasadena Stakes because of a bruised foot and is likely to start in the Grade 3 Jeff Ruby Steaks at Turfway Park on March 21.
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Unbeaten Map of the Moon and fellow Turfway Park winner Coco Connect are coming off stakes victories sprinting. Friday night's $175,000 Cincinnati Trophy, a two-turn mile on the Tapeta for 3-year-old fillies, is a different question – and one several in this field have already answered.
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In a racing anomaly Sunday at Oaklawn Park, Publisher pushed his career earnings past $550,000 when he won a maiden special weight. He always looked like a winner in the 1 1/16-mile race, and after stalking the leaders, opened up on the field in the stretch for a 5 3/4-length victory.
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Soldier N Diplomat, who opened his 3-year-old season with a runner-up finish in the Southwest at Oaklawn, is scheduled to make his next start in the track's Rebel, trainer Steve Asmussen said Tuesday.
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Two California-breds are Kentucky Derby-dreaming following Sunday's $500,000 Sunland Park Derby. Pavlovian and Express Kid, who finished a nose apart in the race, are bound for another Kentucky Derby points race
