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Usha takes Open Mind Stakes; Built wins Louisville Thoroughbred Society
Favorites Built and Usha came through in a pair of sprint stakes on Saturday at Churchill Downs.
Marcus HershSep 12, 2026
Favorites Built and Usha came through in a pair of sprint stakes on Saturday at Churchill Downs.
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Super Chapter became the first horse representing the United States to win the Grade 1 $1 million MGM Yonkers International Trot since Resolve in 2016 with a powerful 2:22 3/5 performance for the mile and a quarter in the 2026 edition of the race on Saturday afternoon.
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England-based Al Hudaiba ran greenly through the stretch but got the job done under William Buick in Saturday’s Grade 1, $501,000 Summer for 2-year-olds at Woodbine.
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Best Chip and driver-trainer Joe Bongiorno followed up an impressive victory in the Canadian Pacing Derby a week earlier with an inspiring front-end performance, holding on gamely to capture the $200,000 Grade 2 Aria Invitational as part of Saturday's International Trot Day program at MGM Yonkers Raceway, pacing to a 2:20 4/5 clocking in the mile and one quarter contest.
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Forever Young drew the outside post in a field of seven entered Saturday for Friday’s Grade 1, $1 million Jockey Club Gold Cup, the featured event on a nine-race card that will christen the new Belmont Park.
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For months, trainer Ned Allard said he has been waiting for Alogon to start looking like himself in the afternoons again. He couldn’t have asked the 7-year-old gelding for much more in the $100,000 Laurel Dash Stakes on Saturday at Laurel Park.
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Trainer Mark Casse won the Grade 1 Natalma for a record ninth time on Saturday at Woodbine with Voyager, who punched her ticket to the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Keeneland in the BC Win and You’re in qualifier.
Saturday afternoon produced two massive upsets in Group 1 races in England and Ireland, and two very formful results in other races at the highest level.
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Kevin Plowcha's analysis of the Monday 9/14 card at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
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Tioga Downs played host for the W.N. Reynolds Memorial races for 2-year-olds on Friday (September 11).