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Hindered by cancellations on high-profile days during the holidays, handle on races run at Santa Anita declined at the winter-spring meeting that ended Sunday.
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A $150,000 turf allowance for older horses has attracted four graded stakes winners in the field of seven entrants, including millionaire Integration, who is getting his season started in this potential stepping-stone to bigger things.
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A one-two finish by Meaning and Brooklyn Blonde was an ideal result to Saturday's Grade 2 Santa Anita Oaks for trainer Michael McCarthy. Meaning will have her next start in the Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs on May 1. She leads all qualifiers with 126 points. Brooklyn Blonde, however, has only 50 points, and ranked 21st on the qualification list.
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There are only seven races on Thursday's card, the final six comprising a pick six that begins the day with a $50,563 carryover after the wager was not hit on Saturday's Wood Memorial card.
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Crude Velocity will take an unbeaten record to the Grade 2 Pat Day Mile at Churchill Downs on May 2. On Saturday at Santa Anita, Crude Velocity won an allowance race at 6 1/2 furlongs by 6 3/4 lengths without urging from jockey Florent Geroux. Crude Velocity earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 100.
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Hope Road, winner of the Grade 1 Ballerina Stakes at Saratoga last August and three Grade 3 stakes, has been retired, according to owners Barbara and Ron Perry.
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Jockey Tyler Baze recorded his 3,000th Thoroughbred win in the United States aboard Gypsy Tears in Sunday's ninth race at Santa Anita. Gypsy Tears, trained by Val Brinkerhoff, closed from seventh in a field of 10 to win a starter allowance at six furlongs.
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Point Dume, who gave veteran trainer Tim Kreiser his first graded stakes victory in Saturday's Grade 2 Carter Stakes at Aqueduct, could try to give Kreiser his second in the Grade 3, $175,000 Westchester here on May 9.
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There wasn't much question of where Percy's Bar's connections would go to celebrate her dominant victory in the Grade 1 Ashland Stakes on opening day at Keeneland, a win that has propelled her to the Kentucky Oaks.
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The Beyer Speed Figure for the Tampa Bay Derby was changed for a second time. The Puma, who won the race, has now been assigned a 94 Beyer for his victory. The Beyer was initially a 95 but was soon changed to an 89.
