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There will be few changes at the Championship meet at Gulfstream Park, which opens for a second straight season on Thanksgiving Day, and runs through March 29. The stakes schedule pretty much mirrors those of the past several years and is highlighted by the $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational, $1 million Pegasus World Cup Turf, and $1 million Florida Derby.
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Matt Rose's analysis of the Tuesday 11/25 card at Yonkers Raceway.
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Alani, a 4-year-old filly trained by Michael Moore, has finished second behind stakes winners in her last two starts, but the waters could be calmer in the $75,000 Cornucopia Handicap at Parx Racing on Wednesday.
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The 4-year-old filly Alpine Princess is a multiple stakes winner with earnings of more than $700,000, a successful career by any measure – except one. Alpine Princess has yet to win a graded stakes race, a hole in her résumé connections hope to fill Thursday at Churchill Downs in the Grade 3, $400,000 Falls City.
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Trainer Butch Reid entered three juveniles in the $100,000 Pennsylvania Nursery Stakes on Wednesday at Parx Racing, casting a long shadow in the statebred field of eight. The Pennsylvania Nursery is one of five stakes at Parx on Wednesday. There also is a mandatory payout in the 50-cent Philly Big 5
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There is a carryover of $350,907 in the jackpot pick six on Wednesday’s card, which begins the final five-day stand at Churchill Downs for this meet. The nominal feature on the card is a $127,000 sprint allowance for fillies and mares who have never won a race other-than or who have never won twice.
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There Goes Harvard, best known for winning the Grade 1 Hollywood Gold Cup at Santa Anita in 2022, has resumed training for an 8-year-old campaign in 2026.
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Trainer Steve Asmussen has a chance to pick up some Black Friday shopping money on Wednesday afternoon with Way Beyond in the $100,000 Jean Lafitte at Delta Downs – and so do horseplayers on a card featuring a reduced takeout of 10 percent on all wagers.
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The recent turf stakes winners Conducted and Gold Phoenix will miss stakes opportunities at Del Mar and Los Alamitos in the coming days and weeks in favor of races at the Santa Anita winter-spring meeting.
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The Grade 1 Hollywood Derby on Saturday at Del Mar arrives at the right time for Tempus Volat. Since late summer, the improving colt has won twice on turf at Del Mar in one-mile races – a maiden race on Aug. 30 and the restricted Let It Ride Stakes on Oct. 30.
