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Trainer Dale Romans said Bobrovsky hadn’t been on the grass since he left the paddock as a yearling when he stepped on the turf and walked to the gate for Saturday’s $150,000 Skidmore Stakes at Saratoga.
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It took the 5-year-old horse Surface to Air a dozen starts to win a race, and when he finally did he beat $30,000 maiden-claimers. The Premier Stable and trainer Pannagiotis Synnefias swooped in and claimed the horse out of that Keeneland maiden.
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Longshot Mansetti proved to be a memorable winner of the 166th running of Saturday’s $1 million King’s Plate by giving 20-year-old Pietro Moran, Woodbine’s popular leading rider, his first win in Canada’s most prestigious race.
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Lifelovenlaughter, a 5-year-old mare trained by Mike Trombetta, won her second straight state-restricted stakes with the $75,000 All Brandy at Colonial Downs on Saturday. She is now unbeaten in three starts this year.
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Favored She Feels Pretty barely held off the slow-starting English runner Diamond Rain to capture a thrilling renewal of the Grade 1 E.P. Taylor, a Breeders’ Cup “Win and You’re In” event on Saturday’s King’s Plate undercard at Woodbine.
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Warrawee Michelle won Saturday's $100,000 Grade 3 Sebastian K Invitational for older trotters at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania in 1:50, becoming the fastest 4-year-old trotter ever on a five-eighths-mile track and giving trainer Ake Svanstedt his third consecutive victory in the event named after one of his former stars.
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Jockey Luis Rivera Jr. showed up for work at trainer Kenny McPeek’s barn a little before 5:30 a.m. Saturday because, well, that’s what he’s done most of the summer. Never mind that he was at Saratoga Hospital until around 8 p.m. Friday night getting his hip examined following a spill he was involved in during the races.
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Corsia Veloce took to the turf like a duck to water in Saturday’s $175,200 Catch a Glimpse Stakes at Woodbine, posting an 11-1 upset in the 6 1/2-furlong sprint for 2-year-old fillies.
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Journalism, winner of the Grade 1 Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park on July 19 and three other stakes this year, worked a half-mile in 48 seconds at Del Mar on Saturday for a potential start in the Grade 1 Pacific Classic on Aug. 30.
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Though he wasn’t on his back Saturday morning, Junior Alvarado may have had the best seat in the house to judge Sovereignty’s final workout before his engagement in next Saturday’s Grade 1, $1.25 million Travers Stakes.
