The winter months are barreling down in the Northeast – even though it didn’t feel much like it in early November – and Todd Pletcher hopes for more big things from Vacay once the calendar rolls over to 2021.
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Valiance, the Grade 1 Spinster winner and runner-up to Monomoy Girl in last Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup Distaff, will remain in training for a 5-year-old campaign, her connections said Wednesday.
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Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, Martin Schwartz, and China Horse Club’s Valiance lived up to her name Oct. 4 when she ran down Longines Kentucky Oaks (G1) heroine Shedaresthedevil and held off grade 1 winner Ollie’s Candy to take the $400,000 Juddmonte Spinster Stakes (G1) at Keeneland.
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Gretzky the Great netted his second added-money trophy in taking Sunday’s Grade 1, $250,000 Summer Stakes, a Breeders’ Cup “Win and You’re In” race, at Woodbine Racetrack.
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Tapit filly is 3-for-3 at Monmouth Park after Aug. 29 feature.
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Leading rider Flavien Prat will ride Speech in Saturday’s Grade 2 Santa Anita Oaks for 3-year-old fillies.
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3rd at SAR, Msw, 90000 (7f) Winner: Sharing, f, 2 by Speightstown Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and Gainesway Stable’s Sharing (Speightstown) seemed a bit more suited to the grass on paper given that her dam upended the 2010 GI Breeders’ Cup F/M Turf and considering her fast-finishing debut second came sprinting on the infield here July 21, but the chestnut […]
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Gray Magician has taken the overland route to Kentucky, as the California-based son of Graydar ran 2nd in a Stakes in Maryland and then a monstrous 2nd in the Grade 2, $2.5 million UAE Derby to qualify for the Run For The Roses. Following a pair of impressive workouts at the San Luis Rey base […]
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By Dede Biles dbiles@aikenstandard.com A colt purchased by Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners at an auction in Florida on Wednesday will be named Cothran in honor of Dogwood Stable’s late president, W. Cothran “Cot” Campbell. “He is a knockout,” said an excited Jack Sadler of the colt during a telephone interview. “He took my breath away.” Sadler, […]
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Although Gray Magician was just chilling out in his stall at San Luis Rey after clearing quarantine to get back into the U.S.A after his epic 2nd in the Grade 2, $2.5 million UAE Derby, the culmination of Kentucky Derby qualifiers took place this past weekend and when all was said and done, Gray Magician’s […]
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