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Meadowlands: Lauren Tritton the first female to drive three winners at Big M
The Meadowlands has been around for a half-century, so one would think that just about everything that can happen at a racetrack already has.
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The Meadowlands has been around for a half-century, so one would think that just about everything that can happen at a racetrack already has.
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La Mehana is probably not as good as her last race makes it seem. How far away she is from that level is the question handicappers must grapple with when deciding whether to play her at a relatively short price in Saturday's Grade 2, $500,000 Flower Bowl Stakes at Saratoga.
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With two exceptions in which he had genuine excuses, Formidable Man has been impossible to beat in the last 13 months, which is why he will be favored to win Saturday's Grade 2 Del Mar Mile on turf.
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Trainer Michael Trombetta has the morning-line favorites in a pair of state-restricted $100,000 handicaps at Colonial Downs on Saturday. Virginia-bred gelding Determined Kingdom will run with a distinct class edge in the Meadow Stable, while Maryland-bred mare Hollywood Walk will try to earn her second straight victory in the Camptown.
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Four-year-old Kehoe Beach returns to Kentucky Downs on Saturday for the $2 million Ladies Turf Sprint. The forecast looks favorable, no rain, the course likely fast and firm, just the way Kehoe Beach likes it.
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It is widely known 3-year-old fillies have few stakes opportunities on dirt in summer at Del Mar, and they receive even less recognition. It's unfortunate, because the Grade 3 Torrey Pines on Saturday includes two bright lights in the filly dirt division.
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Coming in on a roll, Cheshire Dancer is one of several Europeans who will run on the European-inspired course on the first Saturday of the Kentucky Downs meeting, entered in the Grade 3, one-mile Ladies Turf.
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Thrice a winner, Gold Phoenix starts in Saturday's $300,000 Del Mar Handicap at 1 3/8 miles on turf with race history on his side but after a slightly disrupted summer campaign.
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Veteran turf sprinter Motorious continues to outrun Father Time, and on Saturday at Del Mar he will run in a stakes he has already won but that no horse his age has ever won.
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The 45-year-old English trainer James Owen never has started a horse in America, and if Owen has been on the outside looking into American racing, the same can be said of his first American runner, Wimbledon Hawkeye. Lured Stateside by a monster purse, the Owen-trained Wimbledon Hawkeye unceremoniously drew post 12 for the $3.5 million Nashville Derby Invitational, featured race among five stakes Saturday at Kentucky Downs.