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The ultra-consistent colt Narukami and equally reliable filly W Heart Bond start in the richest races of their careers in Sunday’s Grade 1 Champions Cup at 1 1/8 miles on dirt at Chukyo Racecourse in Japan.
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Antonio Fresu, one of the leading riders in California, is switching agents. Fresu will be represented by Ron Anderson starting at the Santa Anita winter-spring meeting on Dec. 26, Anderson said on Friday.
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Kappa Kappa passed her graded stakes debut when she came back on after getting overtaken in the stretch by Vodka With a Twist to win the Grade 2 Raven Run Stakes seven weeks ago at Keeneland. Sunday, Kappa Kappa will get tested for stamina as she attempts 1 1/8 miles for the first time in the Grade 3, $200,000 Comely Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Aqueduct.
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Less than three weeks shy of his 10th birthday, Tut's Revenge will attempt to get a little closer to the $1 million mark in career earnings Sunday at Gulfstream Park when he takes on nine younger rivals in the co-featured ninth event, the second of three optional-claiming and allowance races on the card.
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Handle on Thoroughbred races held at U.S. tracks during the month of November dropped nearly 8 percent compared to the same month last year, according to figures released by Equibase on Friday. The decline was heavily impacted by a quirk of the calendar and a sharp drop in races held.
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As multiple Grade 1 winner Chancer McPatrick struck a pose for breeders at a November open house, the Spendthrift stallion sales team revealed that the farm was the underbidder on the colt when he sold as a juvenile. At the end of the day, Chancer McPatrick comes to Spendthrift as the first son of the exciting young sire McKinzie to stand at stud.
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There are multiple 2023 and 2024 Eclipse Award champions retiring to stud for the coming season in Kentucky. Along with a trio at Ashford Stud, Straight No Chaser is joining the 2026 stallion ranks. Straight No Chaser, the 2024 Eclipse champion male sprinter who earned more than $2.6 million, is by Speightster, a WinStar homebred who is a son of the operation’s perennial leading sire Speightstown, also a champion sprinter.
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Whether dual classic winner Sovereignty races on or retires for 2026, Godolphin will still bring two homebreds to the Kentucky stallion ranks this season under its Darley banner, with Grade 1 winner Highland Falls and Grade 2 winner First Mission, both millionaires, having retired this fall.
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Six sons of champion Gun Runner enter stud around the country this year. Three of these have another particular pedigree distinction, as Il Miracolo at Crestwood Farm in Kentucky, Disarm at Hidden Lake Farm in New York, and Red Run at Milky Way Farm in California were all produced by the magical cross of Gun Runner over a Tapit mare.
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Liberation's 2025 season has been geared toward races such as Sunday's $100,000 Soviet Problem Stakes for California-bred 2-year-old fillies at a mile at Los Alamitos. Liberation is part of a field of six in the Soviet Problem, the eighth race on a nine-race program.
