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Mark Casse was already impressed by his filly Counting Stars’s performance in winning Saturday’s Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks at Saratoga by 4 1/4 lengths. He was even more impressed when he realized his 3-year-old filly ran 1 1/8 miles nearly a full second faster than the older male Wynstock did winning an allowance race at the same distance earlier on the card.
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Cornucopian, the brilliant sprinter who won Grade 3 stakes at Santa Anita and Churchill Downs earlier this year, has been euthanized after sustaining an injury in Saturday’s Grade 1 Bing Crosby Stakes at Del Mar.
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White Abarrio joined a handful of other leading candidates for the much-anticipated, $1 million Whitney Stakes on Aug. 8 to get in a serious work this weekend at Saratoga, breezing four furlongs in 46.87 seconds over the main track on Sunday per Daily Racing Form with his regular rider Irad Ortiz Jr. aboard.
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Golden Tempo, the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes winner, has gotten reacquainted with Saratoga’s main track this week, culminating Sunday morning with his first workout here, going a half-mile in 48.65 seconds, per Daily Racing Form.
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Jailbird Jog prepared for next week's Hambletonian Oaks eliminations in fine style Saturday night at the Meadowlands, taking the $68,650 Tompkins-Geers Stake for 3-year-old trotting fillies in a lifetime-best 1:51 2/5.
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Two $75,000 divisions of the Ohio Sires Stakes for 2-year-old colt and gelding pacers were held Saturday (July 25) at Eldorado Scioto Downs. Both races went in 1:52, but were won by horses in different stages of their initial campaign - Night Surfer prevailed in his first lifetime start, but it was Don'ttruckwithme who is now undefeated after taking his first three lifetime races in impressive fashion.
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Atlee Bender ended the week of racing at Harrah's Hoosier Park in style, racking up five wins on the night, including sweeping both $67,500 divisions of Indiana Sire Stakes for 2-year-old trotting fillies on Saturday, July 25.
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A Clean Deal scored her third Gold victory of the year and equalled her career-best mile with a 1:49 3/5 triumph in the lone C$150,000 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Leg 3 division for 3-year-old pacing fillies on Saturday (July 25) at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
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Dave McNeight III came into Saturday (July 25) night at Batavia Downs needing three victories to reach a career milestone of 2,000 driving wins, and "Triple Sticks" got the job done. After scoring two wins during the card with Avion Seelster and Ashlee's Delight, McNeight grabbed the nightcap with Skyline Blue Chip to end the program with exactly 2,000 wins.
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A tough gelding who had been banging on the door landed his first graded stakes victory Saturday at Del Mar.
