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Hall of Fame trainer Mark Casse will be looking for his sixth stakes win of the young Oaklawn Park meet Monday when he sends out the unbeaten Ewing in the $150,000 Ozark.
Matt and Bendi Dunn, who operate Dunn Ranch, one of the nation’s most prominent Quarter Horse stables, announced on Thursday that they have temporarily ceased operating a stable at Los Alamitos in California. The decision comes at a time when Dunn Ranch has come under regulatory scrutiny for a series of positive tests found in some of its runners in major stakes in the fall of 2024. The stable has had two notable fatalities involving runners in leading races in recent months.
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Shining Star so impressively captured a second-level turf sprint allowance on Jan. 9 at Fair Grounds that one easily could have imagined her winning the Nelson Menard Memorial, another turf sprint, the next day. Tuesday, in the $100,000 Mardi Gras Stakes, Shining Star can show that actually would have been the case.
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Grade 1 winner Bottle of Rouge could earn some Kentucky Oaks qualifying points on Sunday when she launches her 3-year-old season in the $250,000 Sunland Park Oaks.
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The New York Racing Association has scheduled a hearing for March 6 to consider whether the trainer Kevin Bond should be barred from its racetracks based on allegations of anti-semitic social media posts and physical and verbal abuse of other backstretch workers, according to a statement of charges released by NYRA on Friday afternoon.
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Talk to Me Jimmy, who suffered a cut on his right front foot during his 11-length victory in the Withers Stakes on Feb. 6, has resumed training. He galloped at Belmont Park on Friday, following several mornings of jogging.
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Trainer Tom Morley believes the turf stakes winner Attfield is ready to make his 3-year-old debut. So, provided everything continues as is over the weekend, Morley plans to ship Attfield to Turfway Park for next Saturday's $175,000 John Battaglia Memorial to be run over a synthetic surface.
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Kevin Plowcha's analysis of the Sunday 2/15 card at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
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Sharons Beach was entered in Sunday's $500,000 Sunland Park Derby in New Mexico, but the 3-year-old gelding never left California. Trainer Jonathan Thomas opted to enter Sharons Beach in a maiden race at a mile on Monday at Santa Anita.
Bidding begins on Sunday, February 15 at 9AM ET and concludes on Sunday, February 22 at 9PM ET.
