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Trainer Jonathan Thomas said on Wednesday that Mrs. Astor is scheduled to start in the Grade 3 Santa Ana Stakes for fillies and mares on March 15 and is a candidate for the Grade 1 Gamely Stakes on May 25.
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Harrah’s Hoosier Park Racing & Casino’s 33rd season of live harness racing will kick off at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 12 with a 14-race card. Celebrating Fan Appreciation Night at Hoosier Park, fans that make it to the track will enjoy an array of giveaways, promotions, handicapping contests, and a multitude of guaranteed pools.
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The Phipps Stable may no longer operate with the size and scope it once did, but it still is very much an active participant in Thoroughbred racing. Its numbers may currently be the lightest they've been, but there is at least one colt who carries the hopes of getting this legendary stable back to the spring classics – Golden Tempo.
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Butch Reid has hit a rough patch with Maximus Meridius, but the trainer said he has not lost an ounce of faith in the 5-year-old gelding.
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After a slow January hampered by weather, Brittany Russell is poised to unleash a barn full of live stakes runners in the coming weeks. The parade will begin with Complexity Jane and Sultry Lass in the Nellie Morse Stakes at Laurel on Saturday.
The Meadowlands Racetrack would like to explain the PK8 payout on Friday, February 6. The initial seed money was treated as “new money” on the wager’s first night, so the first night pool totaled $54,998 ($50,000 seed + $4,998). The night’s payout was $13,561.40 for a single 7-for-8 ticket.
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In order to take down Quint's Brew again in the $200,000 General George Stakes at Laurel Park on Saturday, Robert Bailes said Slam Notion will have to return from a two-month layoff with the best race of his career.
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One week after winning the Grade 3 Holy Bull with Nearly, Todd Pletcher won the Sam F. Davis with Renegade, who made a solid 3-year-old debut, closing on a Tampa Bay Downs track that favored forwardly placed runners. Pletcher will look to keep the momentum rolling Saturday with Courting in the Grade 2 Risen Star.
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A pair of Grade 2 winners looking to recapture their best form, Five G and Sugar Fish, will square off going a mile on the main track in an $87,000 conditioned allowance Friday at Gulfstream Park.
The chairman of the Texas Racing Commission said Wednesday that a response to a cease-and-desist order the commission recently sent to Churchill Downs Inc. regarding the entry of the company’s account-wagering operation into the state is being reviewed by the office of the state’s governor and its attorney general.
