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Woodbine Mohawk Park: Analysis for Monday 5/25
Kevin Plowcha's analysis of the Monday 5/25 card at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
Kevin PlowchaMay 22, 2026
Kevin Plowcha's analysis of the Monday 5/25 card at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
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Matt Rose's analysis of the Monday 5/25 card at Yonkers Raceway.
Distance may be the only thing preventing Star Anise from winning her third consecutive Grade 1 race in Sunday’s $2.03 million Japanese Oaks at Tokyo Racecourse.
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Gstaad, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf at Del Mar last October, will be an odds-on favorite to win his first Group 1 in Europe in Saturday’s $580,600 Irish 2000 Guineas at a mile for 3-year-olds at The Curragh.
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Six Speed, the UAE Derby runner-up who finished 13th after setting the pace in the Kentucky Derby, is now with trainer George Weaver.
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Sunday's second-level allowance/optional $80,000 claiming feature is a solid race regardless on which surface it is run. Mentee, trained by Todd Pletcher, is a contender on either surface.
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Journalism, a leading 3-year-old of 2025 who was third in the Grade 2 Oaklawn Handicap in April in his first start of the year, worked five furlongs in 59.40 seconds at Santa Anita on Friday for a scheduled start in the Grade 1 Metropolitan Mile Handicap at Saratoga on June 6.
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Although Charlie's Wish has raced exclusively on turf and Tapeta over the past eight months, she had much of her early success on dirt. She will finally return to that surface in Sunday's $71,000 main event at Gulfstream Park.
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Jockey Florent Geroux will ride at Santa Anita for the first time in four weeks on Saturday before returning to his current base at Churchill Downs on Sunday.
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El Potente, a two-time Grade 3 winner since the beginning of 2025, will miss a scheduled start in Monday’s Grade 1 Shoemaker Mile at Santa Anita because of an illness, trainer Dan Blacker said on Friday.