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Hardly a day goes by without someone asking Jeff Mullins about Queen Maxima. Such conversations are commonplace for the trainer of a star mare who has compiled five stakes wins in turf sprints at Churchill Downs, Del Mar, and Santa Anita in the last year.
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For his lifetime of accomplishments, Trevor Denman will be recognized at the Eclipse Awards in Florida on Jan. 22 with a Special Eclipse Award for Career Excellence, an honor announced on Monday.
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Trainer Victor Barboza Jr. believes the Chilean-bred Capitan Danny will improve going two turns and he appears to have found a nice spot to find out if he's right. Barboza, based at Gulfstream Park, will ship Capitan Danny to Tampa Bay Downs for Wednesday's first-level allowance/optional $16,000 claiming race going one mile and 40 yards around two turns.
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Trainer Linda Rice, who has a meet-leading eight wins through Sunday, has two of the six horses entered in Thursday's featured first-level allowance/optional $50,000 claiming feature at seven furlongs. Thursday features a rare seven-race card, as average field size continues to shrink.
The Monday evening card at Woodbine Mohawk Park is set to feature a double carryover of $34,686.62 in the Pick 6. This is today's largest Standardbred carryover in North America.
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With less than three weeks until the first leg of the prestigious 2025/26 Four-Year-Old Classic Series – the HK$13 million Hong Kong Classic Mile (1600m) on 1 February – and with the 149th HK$26 million BMW Hong Kong Derby (2000m) on 22 March on the horizon, Top Dragon is building nicely into his four-year-old season.
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Luke Middlebrook's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Wednesday, Jan. 14, at Happy Valley.
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A veteran gelding nearing the end of his career and a lightly raced colt just getting started are key runners Thursday in split divisions of a California-bred allowance turf sprint at Santa Anita. Jetovator, a 10-year-old gelding, and Berlin Wall, a 4-year-old colt, are program favorites in races 3 and 7, respectively.
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Goal Oriented, winner of the Grade 1 Malibu Stakes at Santa Anita on Dec. 28, has run his last race.
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There is a reason she is known as the Queen in the Santa Anita stables. Queen Maxima won her fifth stakes in the last year, and for the seventh time in her last nine starts, in Sunday’s Grade 3 Las Cienegas Stakes for fillies and mares on the track’s hillside turf course.
