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Santana Hanover turned the tables on Congressional in Saturday's afternoon $18,500 featured pace at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania; another highlight of the day was the 6,000th career driving victory of "youthful veteran" Jim Marohn Jr.
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Special Wan made her return to Kentucky Downs another successful trip, and Flatten the Curve made his return to the U.S. a far more satisfactory journey as they won a pair of stakes for older runners on the Franklin, Ky., turf course Saturday.
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The $100,000 Violet Stakes was billed as a two-horse race at Monmouth Park on Saturday and conformed precisely to those expectations. With a perfect trip from off the pace, Breath Away had just enough room in the stretch to run down front-runner and 4-5 co-favorite Ribaltagaia to win by a half-length.
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Formidable Man extended his unbeaten streak on the grass at Del Mar to six races with a sharp win in Saturday’s Grade 2 Del Mar Mile, his third stakes win in a 2025 campaign that owners William and Suzanne Warren and trainer Michael McCarthy hope will include a start in the Breeders’ Cup Mile on turf on the same course on Nov. 1.
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The England-based trainer James Owen sent Wimbledon Hawkeye to win the Nashville Derby on Saturday, hitting the mark with his first North American starter.
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Showing the same brilliant turn of foot around the final turn and into the stretch as she had winning her maiden five weeks earlier, Tommy Jo earned herself an automatic berth into the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies after exploding to a convincing 6 1/2-length victory over Percy’s Bar in Saturday’s Grade 1, $300,000 Spinaway Stakes at Saratoga.
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Course condition and trip helped Bellezza get back to her best form Saturday at Saratoga as she got the firm footing she prefers and a sweet ride from Jaime Rodriguez to win the Grade 2, $500,000 Flower Bowl Stakes by 2 1/4 lengths.
Two months after upsetting Determined Kingdom in the $100,000 Ben’s Cat at Laurel Park, Whenigettoheaven shipped to Colonial Downs for trainer Nolan Ramsey and pulled the same trick again in the $100,000 Meadow Stable Handicap on Saturday. This time, he beat the 1-2 favorite on his home turf.
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Church and State led a parade of longshots to the wire in Saturday’s $127,000 Toronto Cup Stakes at Woodbine, scoring by a half-length under a well-timed ride from Eswan Flores.
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It took the 4-year-old turf sprinter Bear River 11 tries to finish first in a race. He’s got the hang of it now. Winning for the third time in his last five outings, Bear River ran the race of his life going wire to wire in the $2 million Turf Sprint on Saturday at Kentucky Downs.
