Quick starts led to wins in the Charger Bar and Las Damas handicaps at Los Alamitos in 2025. Poor starts led to comprehensive losses in the Denim N Diamonds Stakes and Mildred Vessels Handicap at the same venue. Rocking With Energy had a clean getaway in her last start, in the Las Damas Handicap on Nov. 22, leading to hopes she can do the same in Sunday's $100,000 Charger Bar Handicap at 400 yards.
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Mark Newnham hopes Winfield can emerge as a leading HK$52 million Four-Year-Old Classic Series prospect when the dual Brazilian Group 1 winner makes his Hong Kong debut in the HK$3.12 million Class 2 Leighton Handicap (1600m) at Sha Tin on Sunday (4 January).
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Pierre Ng is confident Sagacious Life (130lb) can propel his advance towards the HK$52 million Four-Year-Old Classic Series when the trainer’s highest-rated prospect lines up in Sunday’s (4 January) HK$3.12 million Class 2 Leighton Handicap (1600m) at Sha Tin.
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The promising filly Map of the Moon established herself as a candidate for stakes moving forward at Turfway Park as she kicked the year off by winning the $125,000 Gowell Stakes on Thursday night to remain unbeaten.
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Woodbine Mohawk Park is set to launch its 2026 meet tonight (Friday, January 2) with a 12-race card beginning at 6:15 p.m.
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Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen and his wife, Julie, spent December celebrating some personal milestones in the lives of their sons, jockey Keith Asmussen and the stable's accountant and bookkeeper, Darren Asmussen.
Apprentice jockey Amir Mendoza ventured to the United States from his native Panama this winter and is making his mark in the standings at Oaklawn Park – all while getting to know a jockey from his country that he has long admired.
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The near-millionaire Corningstone has been retired and is scheduled to be bred during the upcoming season, according to her trainer, Kenny McPeek.
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Wakuda will attempt to win her third consecutive race Sunday at Oaklawn Park in the $150,000 Mockingbird, a stakes that last year produced a Breeders' Cup winner in Shisospicy.
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Trainer Mark Casse dominated the 3-year-old turf races during the 2024-25 Gulfstream Park Championship meet. Thursday, he picked up right where he left off a year ago when Alpyland rallied to a 1 1/2-length victory over the pacesetting Honey Dutch, giving Casse back-to-back victories in the $175,000 Dania Beach Stakes.
