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Lo Rider (125lb) took a big step towards confirming his potential with a dazzling first-up win last month, and on Wednesday night (15 October) Caspar Fownes’ four-year-old Harzand gelding is aiming to repeat the dose in a quality HK$3.12 million Class 2 Lei Yue Mun Handicap (1800m) at Happy Valley.
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In this week's Horses to Watch column, Brad Free looks at Santa Anita runners like Tahini, Into Midnight, Super Corredora, and Arrakis.
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The Greenshoe gelding Lionheart Hanover became only the second Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes horse, and the first male and first trotter, to complete the "grand slam" (in announcer Jim Beviglia's phrase), winning his regular-season points title and his Championship race at both two and three, with his victory in one of eight $25,000 Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes Championships over a "sloppy" track on a dank day at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania.
Driver Dexter Dunn and trainer Ron Burke both had a trio of triumphs in $40,000 Kentucky Sire Stakes tests for 3-year-old pacers of both sexes on Monday afternoon at Cumberland Run.
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Despite a wide draw, Vibez had a favorable trip in Monday’s $98,500 Swingtime Stakes for fillies and mares at Santa Anita, winning her first stakes in her third appearance in such a race.
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Arctic Beast remained in beast mode, improving his career to a perfect 3-for-3 with a dominant 5 3/4-length victory in the $155,667 New York Breeders’ Futurity on Monday at Finger Lakes, one of the richest races for New York-bred 2-year-olds.
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Greg Reinhart's analysis of the Wednesday 10/15 card at Yonkers Raceway.
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Stormont Beautiful was the lone supplement received by Monday’s (October 13) deadline for this year’s Breeders Crown
Matt Rose's analysis of the Tuesday 10/14 card at Yonkers Raceway.
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To say that trainer Brendan Walsh comes into Week 3 of the fall Keeneland meet on a roll would be saying too little. And if Proctor Street holds form and has any luck, Walsh stands a good chance of winning race 8 on the Thursday card.
