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Led by a Corniche filly sold for $250,000, the Fasig-Tipton California yearling sale on Tuesday had higher average prices than the corresponding sale in 2024.
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The $1 Sunset Six, a pick six wager combining the last three races daily from both Gulfstream Park and Santa Anita, will be offered for the first time Friday, opening day of the Santa Anita autumn meeting.
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Jockey Antonio Fresu, who led the standings at the Santa Anita spring meeting and was second at the Del Mar summer meeting, will be limited to graded stakes mounts this weekend at Santa Anita while serving the first three days of a four-day suspension.
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He is on a two-race winning streak, will be ridden by the circuit's leading rider, and is proven in distance races on turf. If there is a time to try the claimer Rastaman Vibe in a stakes, it's in Saturday's Grade 2 John Henry Turf Championship at 1 1/4 miles.
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Popular features of the autumn meet at Santa Anita remain unchanged from a year ago, including low-takeout high-minimum double and pick three wagers and a stakes schedule front-loaded with Breeders' Cup prep races.
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Kevin Plowcha's analysis of the Thursday 9/25 card at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
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Lucky Sweynesse’s preparation for Sunday’s (28 September) G1 Sprinters Stakes (1200m) saw the four-time Group 1 winner gallop gracefully over Nakayama’s turf course under beaming sunshine this morning (Wednesday, 24 September) in Tokyo, Japan.
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Grade 1 winner and producer Hot Dixie Chick, a key member of Stonestreet Farm's history and broodmare band, was euthanized due to complications from colic, the farm announced recently.
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Blue hen broodmare Special Me has been pensioned at age 19 at the Brogden family's Machmer Hall Farm in Paris, Ky.
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There is very little speed in Friday's sixth race at Woodbine. With the oft-aggressive Sofia Vives aboard, perhaps Backonthechaingang will revert to front-running tactics in the $25,000 non-winners of three sprint, which could be the key to victory.
