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Jockey Rossa Ryan had a high standard to match this year after a 2024 season that included wins aboard Bluestocking in the Group 1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in Paris and Starlust in the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint at Del Mar.
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Zia Park opens its meet Saturday with the richest average daily purse structure in New Mexico.
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Scottish Lassie, a two-time Grade 1 winning filly, was scratched out of Saturday's $2 million Breeders' Cup Distaff at Del Mar due to a minor issue in her right foreleg, trainer Jorge Abreu said Thursday morning.
Regulatory veterinarians who have been inspecting horses entered in the Breeders’ Cup races on Friday and Saturday at Del Mar in Southern California have been conducting heart examinations on the horses for the first time this year, officials said Wednesday during a press briefing outlining safety protocols for the event.
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The speedy Maximum Fifty takes a three-race winning streak into Saturday's featured 10th race at Woodbine and should be favored in a six-horse field that also includes the unbeaten 3-year-old Going Lucky.
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Several trainers might thumb the scales with multiple horses in the $75,000 Showing Up Stakes at Gulfstream Park on Saturday, but Layabout may give Patrick Biancone the strongest chance in the deep field. The 3-year-old gelding will return to his home track after an ambitious trip to Kentucky Downs in September.
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A second Grade 3 win of 2025 in the $1.31 million Ladies Turf Stakes at Kentucky Downs on Aug. 30 was not enough to assure Special Wan of a place in the Grade 1 First Lady Stakes at Keeneland on Oct. 4. She was stuck on the also-eligible list. Saturday's Grade 3 Goldikova Stakes for fillies and mares at a mile on turf at Del Mar is the consolation race.
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The featured race on Saturday at Churchill Downs, where a Breeders' Cup watch party will also be held, is the $300,000 Bet On Sunshine Stakes for older sprinters.
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Day One Starter will attempt to back up a strong maiden win with a stakes victory Saturday when he meets the unbeaten multiple stakes winner Probably Dreaming in the $150,000 Nashua at the Belmont meet at Aqueduct.
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Let's set the over-under for international wins on this Breeders' Cup Saturday at 2.5, and it's not a huge stretch to imagine horses who shipped to Del Mar from distant lands winning five. That would encompass the four turf races and the Classic.
