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02/07/2015

Oaklawn Barn Notes - February, 7

Pope said Far Right, Bayerd, Mr. Z and Private Prospect, the 1-2-3-4 finishers, respectively, in the $150,000 Smarty Jones Stakes Jan. 19 are expected for the Southwest. Other early probables, Pope said, are recent Oaklawn winners Instant Replay and Kantu

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02/06/2015

Gulfstream Park News & Notes - Fri 2/6

HALLANDALE BEACH, FL - Trainer Todd Pletcher is scheduled to saddle three horses for Saturday’s $500,000 Donn Handicap (G1) in a quest to register his fourth career success in Gulfstream Park’s premier event for older horses. The 11-time defending tra

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02/05/2015

Lea Entered for Stakes Defense in Saturday’s $500,000 Donn Handicap

The 6-year-old son of First Samurai, who made his meteoric rise while shifting from turf to dirt, will have the opportunity to repeat his 2014 feat in Saturday’s $500,000 Donn Handicap, the first Grade 1 stakes for older horses in the country this year

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02/05/2015

Lochte Back to Defend Title in Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap (G1)

The 1 1/8-mile grass race is one of six stakes races, four of them graded, on tap at Gulfstream, including the $500,000 Donn Handicap (G1), $150,000 Suwannee River (G3), $100,000 Fred Hooper (G3), $75,000 Gulfstream Park Turf Sprint and $75,000 Texas Glit

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02/05/2015

Green Mask Finds His Niche in Gulfstream Park Turf Sprint

Green Mask, a son of Mizzen Mast and the Forestry mare Bonsai Beauty, broke his maiden by an emphatic 5 ¼ lengths in his career debut at Keeneland in October of 2013 and set high expectations for himself. Ward thought he might have a Kentucky Derby conte

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02/05/2015

Confrontation Set To Tackle $100,000 Fred W. Hooper Stakes

Confrontation romped to a 7 ¼-length victory at Saratoga on Aug. 1, 2013, and the Kentucky-bred gelding has continued to be a source of surprise for his trainer every since his sparkling debut. “Everything he's done has been a surprise. We never expect

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02/04/2015

El Kabeir has experience edge in Withers

The Withers - the second leg of the New York Racing Association's lead up to the Grade 1, $1 million TwinSpires.com Wood Memorial on April 4 at the Big A - offers 10 points to the winner as part of the "Road to the Kentucky Derby" qualifying system. By vi

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02/04/2015

GRADE II, $500,000 SAN ANTONIO INVITATIONAL

ARCADIA, Calif. (Feb. 4, 2015)—Three of the nation’s most highly regarded 4-year-olds, Horse of the Year California Chrome, 2013 Eclipse Champion 2-year-old Male Shared Belief and recent San Pasqual Stakes winner Hoppertunity head a dynamic field of n

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01/29/2015

GRADE II, $200,000 SAN VICENTE STAKES

A scintillating 6 ½ length winner of the 1 1/16 miles Juvenile, Texas Red made an eye catching run from dead last under Desormeaux’s brother, Kent, who will be back aboard on Sunday. Although winless in two sprints last summer on synthetic surfaces at

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01/29/2015

GRADE I, $300,000 LAS VIRGENES STAKES

Owned by Baffert’s wife, Jill, the Kentucky-bred filly by Lookin At Lucky was a game third, beaten three quarters of a length in the Grade I, 1 1/16 miles Starlet on Dec. 13 at Los Alamitos, and will thus be shortening up a sixteenth of a mile on Saturd

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