After winning the Group 3 Jersey Stakes for 3-year-olds at seven furlongs at Royal Ascot in Britain on June 20, Thesecretadversary won his first Group 1 race in Sunday’s $456,000 Prix Jean Prat for 3-year-old colts and fillies at seven furlongs at Deauville, France.
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Paladin, winner of the Grade 2 Risen Star in February who was knocked off the Triple Crown trail in March due to a non-displaced condylar fracture, returned to trainer Chad Brown’s barn late last week. He has jogged a few mornings over the Oklahoma training track. There is no timetable for his return.
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Magnitude, who has risen to the top of the older dirt male division through the first half of the year, returned to the worktab Sunday morning at Saratoga, breezing a half-mile in 50.23 seconds over the Oklahoma training track.
Najavo Warrior scored his second consecutive graded stakes win with a dominant performance in the Grade 3, $300,000 Cornhusker Handicap, and J J Grey continued his own consistent campaign with a win in the $250,000 Iowa Derby to highlight Saturday night's card at Prairie Meadows.
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Drivers Chris Page and Chris Lems, along with trainer Steve Carter, had a pair of victories in $50,000 Ohio Sires Stakes tests for 2-year-old trotters on Saturday night at Scioto Downs.
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The Meadowlands wrapped up their stakes-filled card on Saturday night with a single $40,000 division of the second leg of the Miss Versatility Series for older trotting mares, and the winner was Woman Of Passion.
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Brandon Blvd took the lead on the backstretch and then held off a slew of challengers in the stretch to capture the Grade 1 $810,000 Meadowlands Pace, for 3-year-olds, in 1:48 1/5 Saturday (July 11) at the Meadowlands.
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Torrid fractions poised double millionaire Bythemissal for a furious bid from last down the center of the track to score his first stakes win as a 7-year-old with a 1:47 upset at 55-1 in the first of two $135,700 divisions of the Grade 2 William Haughton Memorial on Saturday night (July 11) at the Meadowlands.
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In another showdown with arch-rival Somemore Blue, Whoomp, driven by John De Long for trainer Roger Welch, slugged it out down the stretch to finish on top in the lone $94,000 division of the fourth leg of the Indiana Sire Stakes for 3-year-old filly pacers on Saturday (July 11) at Harrah's Hoosier Park.
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After taking on all comers in the Hoosier State as a sophomore, Indiana sensation On To Norway has proven worthy of the Grand Circuit stage so far in his 4-year-old season, following up his North American-record 1:48 3/5 score in last week's Grade 2 Graduate Series final with a gutsy 2:04 3/5 victory over 1 1/8 miles in the Grade 1 $425,000 E.T. Gerry Jr. Hambletonian Maturity, for 4-year-old trotters, on Saturday (July 11) at the Meadowlands.
