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Top Diana finishers pointed in different directions
Excellent Truth and She Feels Pretty, separated by a head in the Grade 1 Diana on July 12, will be going their separate ways for their next starts.
David GreningAug 06, 2025
Excellent Truth and She Feels Pretty, separated by a head in the Grade 1 Diana on July 12, will be going their separate ways for their next starts.
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Trainer Kenny McPeek would land far down the list of trainers focused on sending out 2-year-old debut winners. The McPeek barn last weekend at Ellis Park sent out two juvenile first-time starters to victory, but it was second-time starter Blackout Time who drew the rave reviews.
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Friday's last event, a one-mile maiden race for 3-year-olds and up on the turf, includes Favorable Scenario, a horse trained by Chad Brown who hasn't raced since February 2023.
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Nitrogen, who will switch surfaces for the second time this season when she runs in the Grade 1 Alabama here Aug. 16, had her final tune-up for that race by working five furlongs in 1:01.92 on Wednesday morning over Saratoga's main track.
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The best 2-year-old pacing colts and geldings bred in the Empire State, who also just happen to rank among the best in North America, will be on hand at Batavia Downs on Thursday (Aug.7) when the New York Sire Stakes reconvene with two five-horse fields competing for a total of $105,000 in purses.
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Trainer Dallas Stewart made the rare decision not to send a stable of horses to Saratoga for the 2025 meet, but he was on the grounds bright and early Wednesday morning to watch his up-and-coming 3-year-old sprinter Smoken Wicked breeze immediately after the racetrack opened for training at 5:30 a.m.
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Saturday’s (August 9) Grade 2 $300,000 Carl Milstein Memorial at MGM Northfield Park will feature competitors from all over North America. But for one of the horses racing, they’d love to make it a ‘first’ for their state.
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With the connections of cross-entered Be Your Best opting to run in Saturday's Grade 2 Beverly D. Stakes at Colonial Downs, Friday's Grade 2, $300,000 Ballston Spa Stakes at Saratoga has become a wide-open affair.
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Secret Faith, who picked up the seventh stakes win of her career in a $75,000 division of the Louisiana Stallion Stakes on Aug. 1 at Evangeline Downs, is being considered for a start in the Grade 2, $750,000 Charles Town Oaks, according to trainer Jayde Gelner.
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The Remington Park meet opening Friday night will feature a new stakes designed to draw turf sprinters prepping for the Breeders' Cup, a three-day race week, and an earlier post time. The 62-date meet runs through Dec. 20.