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As is the case every year, trainers Todd Pletcher and Chad Brown are watching several accomplished horses leave their barn for the breeding shed. As is the case, almost every year, there appear to be suitable replacements to fill the void.
David Aragona's TimeformUS Highlight Horse for Thursday, December 11, at Aqueduct.
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Thirsty Rebel and Saul Elliott were second and third in the $101,000 I'm Smokin Stakes for California-bred 2-year-olds at Del Mar on Sept. 5. Neither has won since, a trend that may end for one of them in an allowance race for statebred sprinters at Los Alamitos on Friday.
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Venezuela will pay tribute to four of its most accomplished jockeys – Junior Alvarado, Javier Castellano, Ramón Domínguez, and Emisael Jaramillo – during a special ceremony Sunday at La Rinconada Racetrack, located in the southern part of the capital of Caracas.
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Group 3 winner Sergei Prokofiev, last year's leading freshman sire in England and Ireland, will return home to Canada to continue his stud career.
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Thorpedo Anna will be bred to Gun Runner for her first mating, pairing two Horse of the Year honorees.
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Spun D M C has several variables in his favor heading into the $150,000 Advent Stakes for 2-year-olds on Friday's season opener at Oaklawn Park – including a key one over which he had no control. And in the words of the rap group Run DMC, post positions can be “tricky, tricky, tricky, tricky.”
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Perhaps the biggest handicapping story of the Woodbine meet, which wraps up on Sunday, is how biased the Tapeta has been toward the inside, especially on the far turn. Gotme Good drew the rail in Friday's sixth race and shouldn't mind turning back to seven furlongs from route racing, which has been his speciality.
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Hiroyuki Uemura is relishing the chance to pit Bellagio Opera against the mighty Romantic Warrior in the HK$40 million G1 LONGINES Hong Kong Cup (2000m) at Sha Tin on Sunday (14 December).
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Do not underestimate the three-year-old filly Embroidery in Sunday’s (14 December) G1 LONGINES Hong Kong Mile (1600m) was the message from Christophe Lemaire on Tuesday (9 December).
