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A nose separated Defending Champ and Favorite Jesshawk when they were first and second in a division of the Golden State Derby trials on Aug. 16 at Los Alamitos. Saturday's $197,300 final could be equally as close.
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The fastest filly drew the worst post for the Grade 1 Del Mar Debutante on Saturday, but does breaking from the rail really matter for Explora?
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Last Saturday at Kentucky Downs, the $2 million Ladies Turf was won by the Brendan Walsh-trained Special Wan. This Saturday, Walsh will send out the German-bred Spanish Eyes in the Grade 3, $2 million Ladies Marathon Invitational.
The New Jersey Classic finals for 2- and 3-year-olds of each sex and gait will be featured Friday (Sept. 5) night at The Meadowlands with eight championship events going for purses totaling $1.6 million, and, once again, FOX Sports will broadcast the action live nationwide.
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Lagynos will try and pull a Goliad in the Mint Millions on Saturday at Kentucky Downs. Last season at Kentucky Downs, Goliad won a $500,000 handicap and six days later landed the Mint Millions. On Aug. 28, Lagynos romped in the $500,000 Tapit Stakes. His turnaround is a few days longer than Goliad's, still radically quick for this racing era.
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Trainer Ian Jewell's duo of Moneyshot and Seas of Normandy finished a good fourth and a troubled 10th, respectively, in the $125,000 Longacres Mile at Emerald Down. Jewell could have run them back this Sunday in the $50,000 Muckleshoot Tribal Classic at Emerald. Instead, he has opted to run them at Hastings in Saturday's $50,000 S.W. Randall Plate.
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Trainer Mark Casse sends out three of the five runners for Saturday's $250,000 Wonder Where Stakes at Woodbine in No Time, Winterberry, and Shifty. One could make a case for all three in the 1 1/16-mile inner turf event, which is the anchor leg of the Canadian Triple Tiara for Canadian-bred 3-year-old fillies.
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When the beloved 11-year-old gelding Surprsinglyperfect crosses the finish line in Saturday's fifth race, it will, according to trainer Justin Evans, be his 13th and final race at Emerald Downs. But whether the one-mile, $20,000 claiming event will be the 98th and final race of Surprsinglyperfect's career is another question.
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A trio of $46,500 divisions of round five of Indiana Sire Stakes for 2-year-old trotting colts and gelding highlighted the 14-race card, where big prices Bluebird Atomic and Yearoffear sandwiched a heavy favorite in Swan Affect on Wednesday (Sept. 3) at Harrah's Hoosier Park.
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One track record was broken and one was tied in C$90,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Gold Series races for rookie trotters on Wednesday night at Grand River Raceway.
