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Luke Middlebrook's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Luke Middlebrook's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Wednesday, October 8, 2025 at Happy Valley.
The Hong Kong Jockey ClubOct 06, 2025
Luke Middlebrook's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Wednesday, October 8, 2025 at Happy Valley.
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There’s a mandatory payout of the Assiniboia Jackpot Pick 5 on Wednesday’s closing-day card. With a carryover of nearly $300,000, the total pool is expected to top $2 million on the 20-cent base wager.
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No one has earned more prize money in the history of the Breeders’ Cup than Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert.
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The closest California trainer Jeff Mullins has come to winning a Breeders’ Cup race with 11 career starters was a second-place finish by Wild Fit in the 2005 Juvenile Fillies at Belmont Park.
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The filly Brave Deb was Patient Deb at a pivotal time in Sunday’s $101,500 Surfer Girl Stakes at a mile on turf at Santa Anita.
Dan Chansky's Lou's Starr, fresh off an appearance in the $500,000 Little Brown Jug final September 18, scored an impressive wire-to-wire win Sunday - in track record time for 3-year-old pacers - in the $9,000 winners over pacing feature at Shenandoah Downs.
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When Sophie Green, assistant to trainer Todd Pletcher, went to saddle the 2-year-old colt Final Score for the Bourbon Stakes on Sunday at Keeneland, she looked right over his back.
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Emoticon Legacy and driver Louis-Philippe Roy overcame post ten, as well as some pressure getting control, but in the end, they were dominant in capturing Sunday's $500,000 Grade 1 Kentucky Futurity at The Red Mile in a 1:49 2/5 clocking, giving the son of Walner back-to-back sub-1:50 victories. Luc Blais trains the homebred sophomore son of Walner.
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Delaney Hanover, with Scott Zeron in the sulky, followed a live cover flow and finished explosively to capture the Grade 1 $300,000 60th edition of the Kentucky Filly Futurity at The Red Mile Sunday. A sophomore filly by Muscle Hill, Delaney Hanover stopped the timer in a career-best 1:50 1/5 clocking.
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Ron Burke's star of his 2025 sophomore class, Louprint, maintained his perfect record on the season with a 1:46 3/5 exhibition to win the second of two divisions for the $440,000 Grade 2 Tattersalls Pace, sponsored by Cameo Hills Farm, on Sunday (Oct. 5) at The Red Mile.