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A sudden downpour that hit the local area just prior to post for the $225,000 Princess Rooney Stakes may have changed the condition of the racetrack but did little to dampen the speed of Kerry’s Kiss. The Saffie Joseph Jr. trainee splashed her way to a gate-to-wire, 1 1/2-ength victory over the heavily-favored Simply Joking in the Grade 3 local fixture.
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Three-year-old colt Fragment became a two-time New York Sire Stakes champion and stallion Huntsville sired three of the four winners of the $300,000 finals for male and female pacers Saturday (Sept. 12) at MGM Yonkers Raceway.
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Uncle Rob, AI, Kountry Plunge and Sharp Seven were victorious in their respective $300,000 New York Sire Stakes finals for trotters on Saturday afternoon (Sept. 12) at MGM Yonkers Raceway.
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Favorites Built and Usha came through in a pair of sprint stakes on Saturday at Churchill Downs.
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Super Chapter became the first horse representing the United States to win the Grade 1 $1 million MGM Yonkers International Trot since Resolve in 2016 with a powerful 2:22 3/5 performance for the mile and a quarter in the 2026 edition of the race on Saturday afternoon.
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England-based Al Hudaiba ran greenly through the stretch but got the job done under William Buick in Saturday’s Grade 1, $501,000 Summer for 2-year-olds at Woodbine.
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Best Chip and driver-trainer Joe Bongiorno followed up an impressive victory in the Canadian Pacing Derby a week earlier with an inspiring front-end performance, holding on gamely to capture the $200,000 Grade 2 Aria Invitational as part of Saturday's International Trot Day program at MGM Yonkers Raceway, pacing to a 2:20 4/5 clocking in the mile and one quarter contest.
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Forever Young drew the outside post in a field of seven entered Saturday for Friday’s Grade 1, $1 million Jockey Club Gold Cup, the featured event on a nine-race card that will christen the new Belmont Park.
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For months, trainer Ned Allard said he has been waiting for Alogon to start looking like himself in the afternoons again. He couldn’t have asked the 7-year-old gelding for much more in the $100,000 Laurel Dash Stakes on Saturday at Laurel Park.
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Trainer Mark Casse won the Grade 1 Natalma for a record ninth time on Saturday at Woodbine with Voyager, who punched her ticket to the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Keeneland in the BC Win and You’re in qualifier.
