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Thursday's Best of Ohio program at Thistledown features five $100,000 statebred stakes that have attracted the two most recent Ohio-bred horse of the year honorees, Generous Lover and Fair and Square.
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Matt Rose's analysis of the Tuesday 8/12 card at Yonkers Raceway.
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Kevin Plowcha's analysis of the Tuesday 8/12 card at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
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Trainer Richard Mandella believes the three-turn distance of Thursday's featured turf allowance will benefit 4-year-old Defiance. As a daughter of Avenge, Mandella is hoping Defiance can have similar success going long the turf.
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Trainer Chad Summers is hoping distance will prove to be the great equalizer when River of Time and Friend Ofthe Devil meet for the second time this season Thursday at Saratoga in the $150,000 Cab Calloway Stakes.
Odds On Hialeah was a first-over winner of a $100,000 Ohio Sires Stakes clash for sophomore pacing fillies on Sunday night at MGM Northfield Park.
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Bahama Momma, already with two Pennsylvania Sire Stakes victories to her credit, added a Kentucky Championship Series tally to her collection with a 1:51 1/5 win in Sunday night's $80,000 tilt for 2-year-old pacing fillies.
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The rapid development that a classy 2-year-old can make was graphically illustrated on Sunday night at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, where there was $195,778 of third round preliminary action in both Sire Stakes and Stallion Series action for baby trotting males.
Two New York Sire Stakes events for 2-year-old male trotters headlined Sunday afternoon's races at Tioga Downs, and Seven Grand and Titans Mischief were the winners.
Nasey, the longest shot on the board at 61-1, rallied to a surprise victory in the C$100,000 Earl Rowe Memorial Invitational for older trotters on Sunday evening at Georgian Downs.
