Pocono: Horses to watch from Nov. 1 - Nov. 4
Kenny Walters' horses to watch list from Pocono Downs Mohegan Pennsylvania.
Ken WaltersNov 07, 2025
Kenny Walters' horses to watch list from Pocono Downs Mohegan Pennsylvania.
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The mini turf festival at Churchill Downs this week continues Sunday with the featured seventh race, a third-level allowance with a $100,000 claiming option carded for one mile on grass. This comes one day after the River City Stakes, a 1 1/8-mile grass race for older horses, and two days after Churchill filled a fourth-level allowance for older turf milers.
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Immersive never really got untracked this year after winning an Eclipse award as champion 2-year-old filly of 2024. And Good Cheer had a quiet second half of her 3-year-old campaign after capturing the Kentucky Oaks. But both fillies will race on next year at age 4, trainer Brad Cox said this week.
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She Feels Pretty, who should be named champion female turf horse of 2025, stands ready, willing, and able to race as a 5-year-old in 2026. Whether that happens, however, has yet to be decided.
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Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan has officially been retired, Churchill Downs and trainer Kenny McPeek announced Friday on social media, McPeek saying he was "extremely proud" of his "brave and intelligent" horse.
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Turf Paradise in Phoenix opens its 102-day live racing season Monday with a new operator and general manager hoping to usher in a new era in Arizona racing.
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The final two stakes races of the Finger Lakes season take place on Monday, with the $45,000 Shesastonecoldfox Stakes and $45,000 Tin Cup Chalice Stakes. Two juveniles from these fields of seven and nine, respectively, will come away with their respective first stakes victories – and will join the races' namesakes as stakes-winning 2-year-olds at the Farmington, N.Y., track.
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Trainer George Weaver is looking forward to getting Zuby on turf in Sunday's $150,000 Awad Stakes for 2-year-olds at Aqueduct. However, if forecasted rain showers force the race to the dirt, Weaver will be equally as happy to run the 2-year-old daughter of Vekoma against the boys in this six-furlong race.
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Champion jockey Zac Purton believes the best is yet to come from Cap Ferrat (127lb) as he prepares to ride the Francis Lui-trained galloper for the first time in Sunday’s HK$4.2 million G3 Sa Sa Ladies’ Purse Handicap (1800m) at Sha Tin.
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Although she has won twice as often and earned twice as much, Grand Slam Smile has a score to settle with her nemesis Sneaker on Sunday at Del Mar. Seven fillies and mares bred in California are entered the $100,000 Betty Grable Stakes, which is basically a rubber match between two who composed the exacta in recent stakes on turf.