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The Preakness Day stakes marathon started off on a strong note for the "home team" connections, as Striker Has Dial, who is based here at Laurel Park with trainer Horacio De Paz, led throughout to win the $125,000 Skipat Stakes for female sprinters, the fourth race on Saturday's 14-race card and the first of nine stakes on the day.
Notable Speech unleashed a furious rally in the final furlong to win Saturday’s Group 1 Lockinge Stakes at Newbury Racecourse in Britain, his first victory since the Breeders’ Cup Mile at Del Mar last November.
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A recent spate of major milestones continued on Friday at Eldorado Scioto Downs when Brett Miller became just the 15th driver to record 11,000 victories in North America.
Johnathan Ahle drove the 1,000th winner of his still-young career on Friday afternoon at Harrah's Philadelphia, guiding the Stay Hungry filly Staying At Tony's to a 1:53 victory in one of two $12,000 features for developing pacing distaffs.
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The main attraction Friday afternoon at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows were 3-year-old trotting fillies. Four divisions of Pennsylvania Stallion Series action led up to the day's main events, two $49,326 divisions of the Pennsylvania Sire Stakes event called the Meadow Bright.
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Jason Bartlett likes what Spencer Hanover is capable of doing on the racetrack. He also likes what the horse doesn't do.
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It may not have been the Kentucky Oaks, but the connections of My Miss Mo felt just as happy – and somewhat validated – to have won Friday’s Grade 2, $300,000 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes at Laurel Park.
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There have been a half-dozen opportunities in the past eight months for Saffie Joseph Jr. to finally give Navajo Warrior his first shot in stakes company. The trainer waited until he was sure, and his patience paid off in the Grade 3 Pimlico Special Stakes on Friday at Laurel Park.
