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Wesley Ward could have seven chances next month to win his first Royal Ascot race since 2021. Ward pioneered sending American horses to Royal Ascot, winning his first race there in 2009 long before the June meeting became a fashionable destination for a wide swath of American horse people.
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While trainer Jose D'Angelo continues to be based primarily at the Palm Meadows training center in South Florida, he will be at Saratoga early next month, where he'll send out 2026 Breeders' Cup Sprint winner Bentornato in the Grade 3 True North Stakes on June 6.
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For a horse who posted Beyer Speed Figures between 84 and 97 in all seven starts last season, it's hard to believe Hop Sing is still eligible for the nonwinners-of-two allowance condition.
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Trainer Mark Casse said he didn't know if Final Accord was a true miler, but he knows the 3-year-old filly isn't a 5 1/2-furlong sprinter. While he waits for the ideal one-turn race to come along, his filly keeps competing and should be a contender in the $150,000 Penn Oaks on Friday at Penn National.
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Jockeys Ernesto Valdez-Jiminez and Isaiah Wiseman may miss the remainder of the Lone Star meet due to injuries sustained in a Sunday spill.
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Norm Tremblay traveled 2,300 miles from his home in Grande Prairie in Alberta, Canada, to Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas, to watch a horse he owns in partnership, Heroic Move, win the Grade 3, $400,000 Steve Sexton Mile for the second time in his career Monday.
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There are three Best of Ohio state showcase cards throughout the season at each of the Buckeye State's three Thoroughbreds tracks, starting this Friday at Belterra Park, with five stakes worth $100,000 each.
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Miguel Clement has enjoyed instant success in his early career as a trainer, but working with Teddy’s Rocket has required more patience. His breakout performance has always seemed to be a start away, and it could finally come in the Grade 3, $400,000 Penn Mile on Friday at Penn National.
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Jockey Dylan Davis will take a seat on Ottinho, one of three horses Chad Brown intends to run in the $2 million Belmont Stakes on June 6 at Saratoga. Davis had been named to ride Ottinho in the Wood Memorial, but Brown called an audible earlier that week and sent the horse to the Blue Grass at Keeneland, where Ottinho finished second, 11 lengths behind Further Ado.
Horses exposed to urine contaminated with the illegal substance metformin in their stalls can test positive for the drug as far out as seven days from the time of exposure, according to a study conducted by the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California-Davis.
