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Ted Noffey, who on Thursday is expected to be announced as 2-year-old champion male for 2025, was 6-1, the shortest-priced individual horse of 39 betting horses offered after wagering in pool 3 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager closed.
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After running one-two last Saturday in the Lecomte Stakes, an early Kentucky Derby prep, and winning a dirt-route maiden race earlier on the card, the Cherie DeVaux barn returns to its Fair Grounds roots Thursday.
Shawn Bergquist, a top jockey agent across the Southwest who in recent times had been the stall superintendent at Remington Park, has died, confirmed Oklahoma chaplain Carl Criswell.
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Multiple Grade 1 winner La Cara leads a cast of eight entered for the Grade 3, $300,000 Houston Ladies Classic on Saturday at Sam Houston Race Park.
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Obliteration was a dominant winner of his 3-year-old debut earlier this month in the $150,000 Renaissance at Oaklawn Park, a performance that will send him to the Middle East.
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Tap Into This, who won his fourth race in his last five starts in The Coach overnight stakes earlier this month at Oaklawn Park, is likely headed for graded stakes company.
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Nominations have been released for the Grade 3 Holy Bull Stakes, the first major Kentucky Derby prep held locally each winter, to be contested at 1 1/16 miles on Jan. 31.
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Thursday evening figures to be a memorable one for the potent jockey and trainer combination of Junior Alvarado and Bill Mott, who are likely to be spending plenty of time at the podium accepting accolades for Sovereignty at the 2026 Eclipse Awards ceremony. Alvarado and Mott are also likely to be celebrating together about five hours earlier in the Gulfstream Park winner's circle with Nic's Style.
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Balnikhov, the millionaire four-time stakes winner, has had a change of ownership in advance of his 2026 debut at Gulfstream Park on Saturday.
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The brilliant mare Grand Slam Smile has won eight stakes in her career, seven for California-breds and the Fasig-Tipton Debutante in her second start at Santa Anita in June 2023. Another attempt at a graded stakes win is possible after Grand Slam Smile's win by a half-length in Saturday's Sunshine Million Filly and Mare Sprint on the hillside turf course at Santa Anita.
