Notable Speech rebounds with City of York victory
The City of York Stakes on Saturday at York Racecourse is not part of the Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series – but the favorite for the Breeders’ Cup Mile won it.
Marcus HershAug 22, 2026
The City of York Stakes on Saturday at York Racecourse is not part of the Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series – but the favorite for the Breeders’ Cup Mile won it.
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Wrong Sounds Right picked up his third win in his last four tries Friday night at the Meadowlands after taking the featured $80,000 Garden State for 2-year-old colts and geldings on the trot.
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Trotting 2-year-olds sparred in a pair of eliminations for the Grade 1 William Wellwood Memorial and Peaceful Way Stakes on Friday (Aug. 21) at Woodbine Mohawk Park, with Detonater Hanover and Gios Hope taking the Wellwood elims, while Dataprivacy and Fashion Athena scored in the Peaceful Way elims.
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It was a barrage of Indiana Sire Stakes events on Friday, Aug. 21 at Harrah's Hoosier Park, with rookie trotting fillies and pacing males in action, to go along with the 3-year-old colt and gelding pacers. A few horsemen dominated the proceedings, with the Erv and Alvin Miller stables combining to take half of the 14 races, while driver John De Long tallied five wins on the evening.
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Louis-Philippe Roy nabbed the pair of Grade 3 events for pacing 2-year-olds at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Friday night (Aug. 21), winning the C$120,000 Dream Maker final with undefeated colt Shalom Hanover and the C$125,000 Whenuwishuponastar final with filly Treacherous Nova.
Eastie Boy, a full brother to double Dan Patch Award recipient Louprint, was a 1:50 2/5 winner of Friday evening's $129,491 Pennsylvania Sire Stakes contest for 2-year-old male pacers at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows.
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Iron Orchard, a Grade 1-winning 2-year-old filly who was purchased for $2.5 million before last October’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, went gate to wire to win Friday’s $200,000 Fleet Indian Stakes by 12 lengths.
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Kevin Plowcha's analysis of the Monday 8/24 card at Woodbine Mohawk Park.