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Next Saturday Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania hosts the $50,000 Championship of the Bobby Weiss Series for 3-year-old pacing males, and after this Saturday's final preliminary round, conducted in three $17,500 divisions, you'd be hard-pressed not to give a decent chance to several different horses.
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There will always be a measure of anticipation when Almendares starts. This is commonplace for a come-from-behind runner.
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Taj Mahal worked twice as hard as any rival in the $150,000 Federico Tesio Stakes on Saturday at Laurel Park, but it didn’t make an ounce of difference in the end. The wonder colt scraped the stars in a wild front-running ride under Sheldon Russell, eased back to the field, and rocketed away again to win by 8 1/2 lengths.
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Crupper earned a Preakness berth on Saturday at Oaklawn Park, where he was prominent throughout for a half-length win over Chad Allan in the $200,000 Bathhouse Row Stakes.
David Aragona's TimeformUS Highlight Horse for Sunday, April 18, at Aqueduct.
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Cruise the Nile switched styles in his stakes debut and flew home with authority to win the $100,000 Henry S. Clark by a neck at Laurel Park on Saturday.
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Burnham Square in April 2025 won the Blue Grass Stakes, a Grade 1 dirt race at Keeneland. That was nothing compared to his first try over Keeneland’s grass course.
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Stars and Stripes continued his climb up the class ladder winning the Ben Ali Stakes on Saturday at Keeneland.
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Jockey Victor Carrasco rode Ivy Girl into the first turn of the $150,000 Weber City Miss Stakes at Laurel Park on Saturday and felt like he was halfway to nowhere. The 25-1 longshot was 10 1/2 lengths back after a quarter-mile and well out of touch with the field, but trainer Amelia Green instructed him to never give up on the filly.
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The $100,000 John Shear Stakes for 3-year-old turf sprinters was run later than scheduled this month at Santa Anita on Saturday, and developed in favor of the appropriately-named Irish-bred colt Later Than Planned.
