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In all his years on the racetrack, Wayne Catalano has learned to strike when the iron is hot. That is why he is sending Built from his Churchill base to Saratoga, where he figures to be favored in Saturday's $400,000 Alfred G. Vanderbilt.
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Barbadian Runner achieved a great deal in a busy 3-year-old campaign last year, but a stakes win at Colonial Downs eluded him in two game attempts. The Maryland-bred gelding will have a prime spot at redemption as the 6-5 morning-line favorite in the $100,000 Yorktown Stakes on Saturday.
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Weekend GamePlan: Picks for Monmouth Oaks, Ontario Colleen, Osunitas
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Phileas Fogg, the 10-length winner of the Grade 2 Suburban, will join the star-studded cast for the Grade 1 Whitney on Aug. 8, trainer Gustavo Rodriguez said Thursday.
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My Miss Mo and Jumping the Gun, the winner and runner-up of the Grade 2 Black-Eyed Susan in May, will square off again in the Grade 3 Monmouth Oaks on Saturday. While Jumping the Gun has delivered a career-best performance since, My Miss Mo will return from a short layoff for Saffie Joseph Jr.
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Chief Wallabee and Emerging Marekt were among the buzz horses entering the Kentucky Derby, going off the fifth and sixth choices, respectively. Chief Wallabee ran fourth, Emerging Market finished 10th.
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If Always a Runner and Counting Stars perform up to their trainer's expectations, then Saturday's Grade 1, $500,000 Coaching Club American Oaks should be a fun race and one or the other figures to leave Saratoga Saturday night atop the 3-year-old filly division.
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Bought for approximately $2.8 million at auction last December in Britain, the highly regarded 4-year-old filly Saqqara Sands will have her American debut Saturday in the $100,000 Osunitas Stakes at a mile on turf.
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Slew Lady is one of the latest to hit the entry box for her sire, Roadster, who has broken out nationally early on.
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Aretha makes her much-anticipated stakes debut in Saturday's $175,000 Ontario Colleen, the first of three Grade 3 stakes on the Woodbine card, along with the $175,000 Hendrie and the $175,000 Trillium.
