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Grade 1 winner Johannes will stand at Claiborne Farm following a final start in Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup Mile at Del Mar. Historic Claiborne, in Paris, Ky., has a prominent incoming pair, as Johannes joins Grade 1 winner Mindframe, who will run in Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup Classic.
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In the Queen Mary Stakes, a Group 2 run over a straight five furlongs, Lennilu pressed the pace and held admirably for third of 23. That showing and her whole body of work make Lennilu a player Friday in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint. Problem is, True Love, the horse who won the Queen Mary, also has come to California for the $1 million Juvenile Turf Sprint.
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When Banishing runs in Saturday’s $2 million Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Del Mar, Chad Summers will be the trainer of record, not David Jacobson.
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The John Simpson Sr. Memorial Stakes concluded their 2025 run at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania on Monday, with 2-year-old fillies featured in two $48,500 divisions of the Davidia Hanover for trotters and two $46.700 divisions of the Razzle Hanover for pacers. All the eight Simpson stakes are named after a champion horse that the Hall of Famer had a large hand in during his Hall Of Fame career.
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There were two posts remaining – stalls 1 and 6 – and the names of Sovereignty and Fierceness had yet to be called as the post position draw for Saturdays $7 million Breeders’ Cup Classic came to an end Monday in the Del Mar paddock. When Fierceness drew post 1 it immediately conjured up memories of the Pacific Classic held here two months ago.
Horses from the stable of Ron Burke took three of five $40,000 Kentucky Sire Stakes splits for 3-year-old pacers of both sexes on Monday afternoon at Cumberland Run.
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Sovereignty, winner of the Kentucky Derby and four other stakes this year, drew post 6 for Saturday’s $7 million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Del Mar, his first start against older horses.
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Daily Racing Form handicapper Brad Free recalls some memorable horses from the week that was at Santa Anita.
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Greg Reinhart's analysis of the Wednesday 10/29 card at Yonkers Raceway.
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Anyone who came out expecting to see Sovereignty lay down a bullet work in final preparation for the Classic may have been sorely disappointed, but his connections certainly were not after the number one attraction for this year's Breeders' Cup breezed an easy, maintenance-like half-mile shortly after dawn Monday at Del Mar.
