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Through Saturday, trainer Phil D’Amato had amassed 71 career stakes wins at Del Mar, with seven of those accomplished by Gold Phoenix and Motorious, both stakes winners on Saturday.
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The Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher had just won Sunday’s Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup at Saratoga and didn’t know how to feel. That’s because while Antiquarian rallied to win the $1 million race by 1 1/2 lengths, Pletcher’s other starter, Mindframe - the 9-5 second choice - was eliminated soon after the start when a crowding incident resulted in jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. being unseated from that horse.
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Fierceness, the decisive winner of the Pacific Classic on Saturday, will ship home to New York to prepare for the Breeders’ Cup Classic on Nov. 1 at Del Mar, while the top handicap horses in California – Journalism and Nysos – remain in the picture.
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Jockey Jose Lezcano is expected to be out six to eight weeks with a broken collarbone suffered in a spill at Saratoga on Friday.
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In a rare move, the connections of White Abarrio have made a day-of-race jockey change on White Abarrio in Sunday’ s $1 million Jockey Club Gold Cup at Saratoga, electing to ride Edgard Zayas instead of Ricardo Santana Jr., who had been named at time of entry last Sunday.
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A pair of homebred 4-year-olds took half of the $100,000 Ohio Sires Stakes Aged Veteran's Championships at Eldorado Scioto Downs Saturday (August 30). Paris's Dragon took the male pace in 1:49 3/5 while Jurassic Hattie took the mare trot in 1:52 2/5.
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They don't call him the "Money Man" for nothing. On Saturday night Scott Zeron guided 9-1 shot Maximus Miki from far off- the-pace and tracked down Ervin Hanover in the final strides to capture the C$690,000 Grade 1 Canadian Pacing Derby in a 1:48 1/5 clocking. It was back-to-back Pacing Derby's for Zeron, who piloted Its My Show to victory in the 2024 edition.
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Fifth And Five and Allstar Maniac were the winners of the two C$90,000 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold Series events for 3-year-old pacing colts and geldings on Saturday (Aug. 30) at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
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History surrounded Gold Phoenix’s win in Saturday’s Grade 2 Del Mar Handicap on turf.
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Lexus Kody and driver Yannick Gingras put in a powerful two-move performance to get control and dominate his rivals in capturing Saturday's Grade 1 C$630,000 Maple Leaf Trot at Woodbine Mohawk Park in a sizzling track and stakes record 1:49 1/5 mile. Bred in Ontario and a son of Archangel, Lexus Kody easily held off last year's champion and odds-on favorite Periculum down the stretch in the biggest win of his storied career.
