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For the fifth time in his career, California jockey Juan Hernandez won at least three stakes on the same day on Saturday at Santa Anita. His latest hat trick was a mix of a short-priced favorite, a massive longshot, and a mid-priced contender who could start in the Kentucky Derby.
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Turfway Park in northern Kentucky plans to debut a jackpot-style bet on Wednesday requiring the selection of the first eight finishers in order, with the entire pool only paid out when there is a single winning ticket.
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Fasig-Tipton is revamping and rescheduling its fall yearling sale in Maryland to focus more on statebred programs in the region.
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Book'em Danno, the champion sprinter of 2025, was not entered in Friday's Boston Handicap at Colonial Downs, so his return to the races will come in either the Carter Stakes at Aqueduct or the Commonwealth at Keeneland.
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A runner-up in three of his last four starts going one mile, Mo for the King will shorten up to six furlongs as he tries to get the second win of his career in a starter allowance for New York-breds which poses as the feature on Thursday's seven-race Aqueduct card.
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Trainer Todd Pletcher and owner Mike Repole retired Grade 1 winners Fierceness and Mindframe following 2025, but their cupboard is not bare of talented older dirt males. Disruptor won his first graded stakes Saturday in the Grade 3, $100,000 Challenger Stakes. Grande, meanwhile, is pointing to the Ghostzapper Stakes, a 1 1/16-mile race on March 28 at Gulfstream Park.
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Rugelach has run too good to lose in her first two starts for trainer and part-owner Sam Wilensky, but the 6-year-old mare finished second in both of those races. On Wednesday, Rugelach looks well spotted to earn her first victory for Wilensky – and first since Sept. 24 – in a second-level allowance scheduled for one mile on the turf at Tampa Bay Downs.
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Since claiming Money Run for $40,000 in June 2024, trainer Peter Miller has gradually transformed the gelding from a middling sprinter to a seasoned route runner. The culmination of that process could come at Colonial Downs on Thursday, when the 6-year-old will stretch out to 1 3/8 miles in the $100,000 Golden Horseshoe Handicap.
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In the 12th instalment of The Hong Kong Jockey Club’s Road to the Derby series, we zoom in on the galloper Me Tsui hopes will become his first BMW Hong Kong Derby runner since Wah May Star ran 11th in 2013.
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Italian jockey Andrea Atzeni, fresh from a four-timer at Sha Tin on Sunday (8 March), will reunite with the Chris So-trained Top Dragon in the HK$26 million BMW Hong Kong Derby (2000m), the final leg of the Four-Year-Old Classic Series, on Sunday, 22 March. So is hoping that luck will finally be on their side.
