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La Wally is an improving sort who will head into the $2 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies on Oct. 31 at Del Mar off a runner-up finish to the race's early favorite, Explora.
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Rafael Hernandez, Pietro Moran, and Sahin Civaci sit atop the Woodbine rider standings. All thee ride in the Friday opener, a 1 1/16-mile maiden special for 2-year-olds.
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Five of the seven horses entered in Friday's New York-bred, first-level allowance turf sprint feature at Aqueduct come out of the same race run here on Sept. 14. It would be hard to argue that among that quintet, Van Vollenhoven, who finished fourth, had the most difficult trip.
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A pick six carryover of $45,583 jazzes up a strong Friday program at Santa Anita. The pick six sequence has quality, with three strong allowance races. Better yet, the carryover math works well for players.
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Jena Antonucci, the trainer of 2023 Belmont Stakes winner Arcangelo, has been notified of a positive test for the regulated medication lidocaine in a horse she trains that won a maiden race at Gulfstream Park earlier this year, according to records from the Horseracing Integrity and Welfare Unit.
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Khaadem will be one of the characters taking center stage on Breeders' Cup Saturday. His professional pre-race performance and last-to-first victory in the Grade 2 Woodford Stakes last Saturday at Keeneland punched his ticket to Del Mar for the Turf Sprint.
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The prep races are done for the vast majority of candidates for the 2025 Breeders' Cup. But not for Lovesick Blues, whose trainer Librado Barocio is planning on using a 6 1/2-furlong statebred handicap on the downhill turf course at Santa Anita on Saturday as a stepping-stone to the $2 million Breeders' Cup Sprint.
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After winning allowance races in May and July, and the New York-bred West Point Stakes in August, Rhetorical faced open stakes competition for the first time in the Grade 1 Coolmore Turf Mile on Oct. 4 at Keeneland and won that, too.
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The always-muddled picture for the five-furlong Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint, which traditionally draws an overflow cast, began to clear up over the weekend when five stakes that could produce starters were run in North America.
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Barnavara, the narrow winner of Sunday's Group 1 Prix de l'Opera at Longchamp Racecourse in Paris, will not be sent to Del Mar for the $2 million Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf but the second- through fourth-place finishers might.
