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Weekend GamePlan: Picks for Joe Hirsch Turf Classic, City of Hope Mile, Vosburgh
Weekend GamePlan Sept. 27 2025, Joe Hirsch Turf Classic, City of Hope Mile, Vosburgh
Marcus HershSep 25, 2025
Weekend GamePlan Sept. 27 2025, Joe Hirsch Turf Classic, City of Hope Mile, Vosburgh
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The winners of the last three races in which Alogon has run are all top-class turf sprinters. That Ag Bullet, Bring Theband Home, and Doncho don't appear in the entries of Saturday's Grade 3, $200,000 Belmont Turf Sprint Stakes at Aqueduct makes Alogon an attractive proposition in the six-furlong race.
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A year ago, Johannes was rated as the undisputed leading turf miler in California when he won the Grade 2 City of Hope Mile for his fourth consecutive stakes win. On Saturday, Johannes needs a win in the $200,000 City of Hope Mile to record his first stakes win of an abbreviated 2025 campaign and gain a fees-paid berth to the Breeders' Cup Mile on Nov. 1 at Del Mar.
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It's showtime Saturday at Santa Anita for Full Serrano and First Mission, who waited all season to run in a race like the Grade 1 Goodwood Stakes.
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Greg Reinhart's analysis of the Saturday 9/27 card at Yonkers Raceway.
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The well-traveled and tried Patriot Spirit comes to New York searching for his first graded stakes win and a spot in the Breeders' Cup Sprint when he runs in Saturday's Grade 3, $200,000 Vosburgh Stakes at Aqueduct.
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After bringing her along step by step, trainer Domenico Cecere will watch Denarius on Friday in a division of the Grade 3 Bluegrass Stakes for 2-year-old female trotters at Lexington’s Red Mile in the hopes of seeing her continue to step up.
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Coal Battle will be scratched from the Grade 3, $400,000 Oklahoma Derby on Sunday at Remington Park, trainer Lonnie Briley said Thursday. Coal Battle was the 2-1 morning-line favorite for the race, which would have been his first start since a runner-up finish in the Indiana Derby on July 5.
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Mark Newnham is optimistic My Wish can make a triumphant start to an ambitious 2025/26 campaign when the rising star resumes in the HK$4.2 million G3 Celebration Cup Handicap (1400m) at Sha Tin on Sunday (28 September).
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Luke Middlebrook's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Sunday, September 28, 2025, at Sha Tin.