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The speedy and well-traveled Uncashed makes a return visit to Tampa Bay Downs on Wednesday, where the 6-year-old gelding seeks his 13th career victory in a multi-conditioned allowance/optional $100,000 claimer over six furlongs that serves as the feature on a nine-race card.
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Todd Pletcher couldn’t have hoped for more than he got with the two Saturday runners he shipped to Fair Grounds from his winter base at Palm Beach Downs. The 3-year-old Jackson Hole, coming off a one-turn-mile debut win, easily captured a first-level route allowance, and 4-year-old Accelerize, making his fourth career start and stakes debut, led wire to wire in the Grade 3 Louisiana, where he held off odds-on favorite Just a Touch.
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The 3-year-old filly Taken by the Wind has started her career with three wins, the most recent Saturday in the Silverbulletday Stakes. Her trainer, Kenny McPeek, sees Taken by the Wind as a Kentucky Oaks horse, and McPeek believes she needs only one more race before the Oaks.
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Ricky Yiu has declared it’s all systems go for Voyage Bubble ahead of his six-time Group 1 winner’s Triple Crown defence, which begins in Sunday’s (25 January) HK$13 million G1 Stewards’ Cup (1600m) at Sha Tin, when he clashes with Romantic Warrior.
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In the fifth instalment of The Hong Kong Jockey Club’s Road to the Derby series, we profile a contender who has charged up the ratings this season – the Jimmy Ting-trained Little Paradise.
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Luke Middlebrook's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026, at Sha Tin.
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Six-time Group 1-winning sprinter Ka Ying Rising has been crowned Timeform’s Horse of the Year (2025). Trained by David Hayes, last season’s Hong Kong Horse of the Year (2024/25) also earned the accolade as Timeform’s Champion Sprinter (2025).
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With the 2026 Yonkers Raceway racing season soon to get underway, there is still time to recommend changes to the status quo that may prove beneficial to the product long-term. The recently-invoked rule that prohibits drivers from rating a second quarter in 30 seconds or slower could induce modest changes to the way races are run. At the same time, it may be hard to see the fruits of such labor if the focus is just on the second quarter, or for that part, a half-minute that somehow equalizes times whether the race is for $20,000 claiming trotters or Open class pacers.
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Daneyko edged Way Beyond by a nose to win the $100,000 Riley Allison Derby after a stretch-long battle in the Sunday feature at Sunland Park. It was another 13 3/4 lengths back in third to Forty Seven.
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The seizure of 26 slot-styled parimutuel gaming machines at Santa Anita late Saturday by law enforcement officers is expected to lead to legal action by the track as soon as this week, a high-ranking executive said Monday.
