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One week after winning the Grade 3 Holy Bull with Nearly, Todd Pletcher won the Sam F. Davis with Renegade, who made a solid 3-year-old debut, closing on a Tampa Bay Downs track that favored forwardly placed runners. Pletcher will look to keep the momentum rolling Saturday with Courting in the Grade 2 Risen Star.
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A pair of Grade 2 winners looking to recapture their best form, Five G and Sugar Fish, will square off going a mile on the main track in an $87,000 conditioned allowance Friday at Gulfstream Park.
The chairman of the Texas Racing Commission said Wednesday that a response to a cease-and-desist order the commission recently sent to Churchill Downs Inc. regarding the entry of the company’s account-wagering operation into the state is being reviewed by the office of the state’s governor and its attorney general.
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From how his career began last summer, Vibrant Express didn't seem the type that would be going for a fourth consecutive victory in February. But that's exactly what the 4-year-old gelding by Vekoma will be attempting to accomplish in a seven-furlong, second-level allowance for New York-breds that serves as the feature on Friday's eight-race card at Aqueduct.
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Majestic Oops on Friday can become the second Breeders' Cup Distaff starter to win their seasonal debut at Oaklawn Park in less than a week when she runs in the $150,000 American Beauty. The six-furlong race for fillies and mares is part of a 10-race card that opens a race week that includes a special holiday card on Monday.
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Super Corredora finished last of four starters in the Las Virgenes Stakes on Feb. 8 at Santa Anita, but trainer John Sadler has not lost faith in the 2025 champion 2-year-old filly. She returns to the track Thursday morning, even without a clear alibi for her below-par comeback.
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Kentucky Derby pedigree profile: Golden Tempo
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The $2 million Belmont Stakes, the final leg of racing’s Triple Crown, will be the centerpiece of a five-day Belmont Stakes Racing Festival held June 3-7 at Saratoga that will offer 25 stakes worth $11.075 million, the New York Racing Association announced Wednesday.
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Trainer Richard Baltas is not too concerned about a sluggish start to the Santa Anita winter meet – two wins from 37 starters, with four seconds and eight thirds.
An arbitrator appointed by the Horseracing Integrity and Welfare Unit has handed down a 24-year suspension and more than $300,000 in fines to a longtime Illinois veterinarian for nine violations that were described as a “flagrant disregard” for the sport’s medication rules.
