A 4-year-old Southern Hemisphere filly, Cinsault won her group stakes debut in the Group 2 Millie Fox Stakes at 6 1/2 furlongs for fillies and mares at Rosehill Gardens in Sydney on Feb. 21. The victory has led to Cinsault’s Group 1 debut in Saturday’s Coolmore Classic at 7 1/2 furlongs for fillies and mares at Rosehill Gardens.
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Kevin Plowcha's analysis of the Friday 3/13 card at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
Il Etait Temps, who fell two fences from the finish of a Grade 1 race at Ascot in January, delivered a largely mistake-free performance to win Wednesday’s Grade 1 Queen Mother Champion Chase at two miles at Cheltenham Racecourse in western England.
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Quietside, winner of last year’s Grade 2 Fantasy at Oaklawn, has been retired and is scheduled to be bred to Nyquist, according to her trainer, John Ortiz. The millionaire was seventh in the Grade 2 Azeri last weekend at Oaklawn, one start after running third in the track’s Grade 3 Bayakoa won by champion Nitrogen.
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Randy and Jenny Boyd bought a share in the multiple stakes winner Splendora on Monday, March 2. Last Saturday, the Boyds were at Santa Anita for the first time to watch Splendora cruise to an easy win in the Grade 1 Beholder Mile.
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Trainer Will Walden hopes the second March renewal of the Virgina Derby will provide him with his first Kentucky Derby runner. High Camp, despite sporting only a maiden win from two starts, is the 9-2 third choice on the morning line for Saturday's $500,000 Virginia Derby, which confers 50 Derby qualifying points to the winner.
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La Cara, a multiple Grade 1 winner of $1.2 million, is going to be retired to the breeding shed, according to her trainer, Mark Casse. He said she is scheduled to be bred to Not This Time.
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The 2025-26 Championship meet is slowly winding down, but there are still plenty of stakes opportunities left before the final curtain comes down on March 29. A case in point is Saturday’s 12-race card, which features a trio of $125,000 sprint stakes – the Hutcheson for 3-year-olds and its filly counterpart, the Any Limit, plus the Captiva Island.
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Bricklin, who ran third in the Sunland Derby, has a pair of upcoming race options at Oaklawn Park, according to his trainer, Rudy Brisset. The horse won a first-level allowance at a mile at Oaklawn before heading to New Mexico for the Sunland Derby.
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Sunland Park Derby runner-up Express Kid is scheduled to make his next start in the Grade 2, $750,000 Wood Memorial on April 4 at Aqueduct, according to his trainer, Justin Evans.
