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Tamara, the winner of the Grade 1 Del Mar Debutante in 2023 whose career was repeatedly delayed by injuries or illnesses, has been retired, trainer Richard Mandella said Tuesday.
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Brad Free's Santa Anita Horses to Watch for the week of Dec. 28-29, 2025
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After a half-century of taking care of track surfaces - most notably, the mile oval at the Meadowlands, which is home to the fastest mile in the history of the game - Gary Wolff, who serves as the Big M's director of racing properties & track, will step down from that position when he retires at the end of the year.
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Entering his third training season in Hong Kong, Australian trainer Mark Newnham is enjoying his most successful spell yet. He closed out his debut campaign with 31 wins, before adding another 44 in 2024/25. As of the end of December in the 2025/26 season, Newnham sits in the second spot of the trainers’ premiership with 26 wins.
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Light Years Charm has always shown plenty of aptitude and Thursday’s HK$4.2 million G3 Chinese Club Challenge Cup Handicap (1400m) at Sha Tin shapes as a timely and suitable opportunity for the five-year-old to enhance his standing.
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A closing kick has become a bankable style for Gas Me Up, who rallied to record a surprise win in Monday’s Grade 2 Joe Hernandez Stakes for turf sprinters at Santa Anita.
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Barnes, the winner of two graded stakes for 3-year-old sprinters in 2025, has been retired to stud at Hill ‘n’ Dale at Xalapa Farm in Paris, Ky., the farm announced on Monday.
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The person most surprised that La Ville Lumiere won Monday’s $100,500 Blue Norther Stakes at Santa Anita may have been winning rider Flavien Prat.
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Trainer Carlos Martin is hoping Glorious Boy can earn his second straight stakes win and that he can do so in a lot less dramatic fashion when facing nine other 3-year-olds Thursday at Gulfstream Park in the $175,000 Dania Beach.
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For more than two years, Buccherino has benefited from an astounding home-field advantage at Parx Racing, where he has won 6 of 7 starts for trainer Alfredo Velazquez. He will return to those familiar confines in the $75,000 Blitzen Stakes on Wednesday.
