Dexter Dunn, Todd McCarthy and David Miller had two wins each in $40,000 Kentucky Sire Stakes contests for 3-year-old trotters on Tuesday afternoon at Cumberland Run.
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You might have forgotten a filly named Hard to Justify. After all, her last start came in May 2024. Why bring her up? Hard to Justify's victory in the 2023 Juvenile Fillies Turf marks the only North American-based 2-year-old turf win at the last two Breeders' Cups. European horses landed the other five Friday turf races, and they almost certainly will win more this Friday.
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Grade 1-winning multimillionaire Gunite made his name with several hard-knocking seasons on the racetrack. Now, Gunite gets a chance to put his name forward as his first-crop weanlings come to sales rings in Kentucky.
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Daylight Savings Time ends on Nov. 2, meaning the sun will set fairly early in Kentucky on the evening of Monday, Nov. 3. No matter, the stars will light up the night. The single-session Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall selected mixed sale, colloquially known as the “Night of the Stars,” begins at 4 p.m. at the company's Newtown Paddocks in Lexington.
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In a vacuum, best race to best race, no one in the $1 million Juvenile Turf can beat Gstaad. They will not run the race in a vacuum, and when post positions were drawn Monday, things, once again, did not go right. Gstaad drew post 14, a precarious position in the one-mile Juvenile Turf.
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There's a bit of something for everyone at the week-plus of the Keeneland November breeding stock sale. The auction runs over eight sessions from Tuesday, Nov. 4, through Tuesday, Nov. 11.
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As if a $2 million purse and the honor of becoming a Breeders' Cup winner were not enough, a division championship is also certain to be at stake when nine 2-year-old fillies square off at 1 1/16 miles Friday at Del Mar in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies.
Crumlin Trouble deserves the nickname “Miss October” as she tries to win her third race this month in Friday's Woodbine headliner for fillies and mares.
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Greg Reinhart's analysis of the Thursday 10/30 card at Yonkers Raceway.
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Kevin Plowcha's analysis of the Thursday 10/30 card at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
