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Somerset West will be considered for lucrative stakes at Kentucky Downs later this summer after successfully winning at a mile for the first time in Saturday's Grade 2 San Clemente Handicap for 3-year-old fillies at Del Mar.
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Formidable Man or Gold Phoenix could have a record-breaking day Sunday at Del Mar. The older runners are scheduled to start in the Grade 2 Eddie Read Stakes at 1 1/8 miles on turf, seeking a record sixth career stakes win at Del Mar in the $250,000 race.
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Several contenders are questionable to run in the $150,000 Dashing Beauty Stakes on Thursday at Delaware Park, but heavy favorite Irish Maxima is ready to roll off a short layoff for trainer John Servis. The graded stakes winner was entered in the $100,000 Maggie Walker at Colonial Downs last weekend but scratched.
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Something will have to give when All of It and Celtic Dawn put their perfect records on the line in the $200,000 Suzie O'Cain Stakes. The Suzie O'Cain is the fourth leg in a pick six sequence that has a carryover of $99,020.
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Horseplayers must solve a pair of sprint-to-route riddles Thursday in Del Mar allowance races – fillies and mares on turf, and California-bred colts and geldings on dirt.
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Flying Black peaked around this time last year and should make some noise in Thursday's fourth race at Woodbine, a $25,000 claiming inner turf route for fillies and mares.
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After recent cancelations due to unsafe air quality forced changes to the schedule, Woodbine Mohawk Park ended up hosting a total of five Ontario Sires Stakes Gold Series splits on Sunday.
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American Power and Setyoursightshigh gave trainer Marcus Melander victories in both the $300,000 Dr. Harry M. Zweig Memorial for colts and geldings and the $139,0000 filly companion event on Sunday night at Vernon Downs. The Grade 2 events for 3-year-old trotters headlined a 14-race all-stakes program.
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Two-year-old pacers of both sexes were in action on Sunday night at Vernon Downs in New York Sire Stakes action. Driver Todd McCarthy teamed up with trainer Noel Daley to win both flights for the colts and geldings, while Jason Bartlett took the races for the fillies.
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$210,455 worth of Pennsylvania-sired stakes competition for 2-year-old pacing fillies was held during the Sunday twilight card at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, with three divisions of Sire Stakes and four of Stallion Series, but the stakes action followed in the early weekend's trend of favorites not getting the job done. This second preliminary round ended with no double winners in either division, and only one chalk was victorious.
