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Last year, El Potente won the Thunder Road by three lengths in what was intended to be a prep race for the Grade 1 Frank Kilroe Mile in March. El Potente was withdrawn from the Kilroe and did not race again until November. On Saturday, El Potente won the Thunder Road by 3 3/4 lengths and once again has the Kilroe Mile as a goal on March 7, according to owner Mike Way and trainer Dan Blacker.
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Igniter beat a well-regarded runner from the Chad Brown barn to win his first race. He'll likely have to do the same on Wednesday if he is to win his second. Igniter, returning to a one-turn race, will face Hedge Ratio and five other 3-year-olds in a first-level allowance race/optional $100,000 claiming race that goes as race 3 on Wednesday's nine-race card.
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Seven wins, including five stakes at three different tracks, have given trainer Todd Pletcher much to look forward to moving forward.
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Post position may have played a role in Peripoli's fourth-place finish in a starter allowance/optional $25,000 claimer on Jan. 23 at Tampa Bay Downs. Wednesday, at Tampa, Peripoli will break from the outside post in a seven-horse field for trainer Timothy Hamm.
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They only won maiden races in their debuts at Tampa Bay Downs, but expect to hear plenty more from 3-year-olds Emerging Market and Always a Runner throughout the year. Trainer Chad Brown said he had both horses rated highly among his 2-year-olds during the summer of 2025, but both were delayed getting to the races due to pneumonia.
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Matt Rose's analysis of the Tuesday 2/10 card at Yonkers Raceway.
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For me it’s impossible to think of what could have been lost had an epidemic struck during the early years I first started working at a small office in Great Neck, New York that housed a racing publication then known as Sports Eye.
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In the eighth instalment of The Hong Kong Jockey Club’s Road to the Derby series, we unpack the “superb” HK$13 million Hong Kong Classic Mile (1600m) third placing of Beauty Bolt and look at the galloper’s claims through the remaining two races in the 2025/26 Four-Year-Old Classic Series.
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Luke Middlebrook’s Hong Kong selections for Feb. 11, 2026, at Happy Valley.
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There was a good explanation why the filly Meaning was last of four on the first turn of Sunday’s $98,000 Las Virgenes Stakes at Santa Anita.
