Two $72,250 divisions of the Ohio Breeders Championship (OBC) for 2-year-old filly pacers will be featured on the opening day (Sunday, September 15) of the five-day Delaware County Fair meet.
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It was quiet enough to hear individual footfalls as the field of 2-year-olds for Saturday's Grade 3, $300,000 Iroquois Stakes walked to the paddock from the stable area. The volume was turned up about 20 minutes later, shouts going up from the crowd as Spice Runner nailed favored Comport by a head at the wire for the victory. And it will be considerably louder beneath the twin spires 33 weeks from now, should Spice Runner continue to progress all the way from this second Saturday in September to the first Saturday in May.
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Argos punched his ticket to the Breeders’ Cup Win and You’re In Juvenile Turf at Del Mar on Saturday with a head score over the favored Wild Desert in the Grade 1, $502,000 Summer at Woodbine.
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Taken by the Wind powered clear to a 5 1/4-length win in the Grade 3, $300,000 Pocahontas Stakes on Saturday at Churchill Downs.
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On both sides of the Irish Sea on Saturday, the well-backed colts Delacroix and Scandinavia gave the Coolmore syndicate and trainer Aidan O’Brien Group 1 wins with implications for major stakes later this year.
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Miss Code West and jockey Floyd Wethey Jr. won their ninth stakes race together Friday night, while setting a stakes record in the $50,000 Bob Barry Memorial at Remington Park.
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Sovereignty, the leading 3-year-old in the country and a leading contender for Horse of the Year honors, returned to the work tab Saturday morning in Saratoga, breezing an easy half-mile in 49.11 seconds over the Oklahoma training track.
The 8-year-old gelding Mr Brightside proved impossible to catch in Saturday’s Group 1 Makybe Diva Stakes at a mile at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Australia, beating a field that included Via Sistina, Australia’s reigning Horse of the Year.
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Southwind Chaska used an authoritative brush to grab the lead at the half and sailed home from there as much the best on a Friday evening when the fourth leg of the Kindergarten Series was in the spotlight at the Meadowlands with seven $25,000 divisions for 2-year-olds of each sex and gait.
