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D’Angelo breaks slump, takes aim with Bronze Bullet
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Bronze Bullet, disqualified out of an apparent dead heat for first in the Pulpit Stakes in his juvenile finale, will return to allowance company when launching his 3-year-old campaign against eight rivals, including stablemate...
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BIG SPLASH
They only won maiden races in their debuts at Tampa Bay Downs, but expect to hear plenty more from 3-year-olds Emerging Market and Always a Runner throughout the year. Trainer Chad Brown said he had both horses rated highly among his 2-year-olds...
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Canada, France open Greenland consulates
Amid a push for control of Greenland by the United States, Canada and France have opened consulates in Greenland on Friday. Officials from both countries met with Danish officials prior to opening the consulates to show support for the NATO ally....
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Dozens killed in Pakistan mosque blast
At least 31 people were killed in an explosion at a mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan, the country’s capital, on Friday. Officials say at least 169 people were injured and several in critical condition. The attack was carried out by a lone suicide bomber....
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CUP REDUX
ARCADIA, Calif. – It is rare for a nongraded stakes with just four runners to offer both national significance and wagering value. An exception is the $100,000 Las Virgenes Stakes for 3-year-old fillies Sunday at Santa Anita. The one-mile Las Virgenes...
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NO SLAM DUNK
ARCADIA, Calif. – It happens every year in the Grade 3 Robert B. Lewis at Santa Anita – a Bob Baffert-trained favorite wins the early season route for 3-year-olds. Saturday, it is Desert Gate’s turn. Baffert favorites have won the Lewis for seven...
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CHESS GAME
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Send in the closers. The Grade 3, $1 million Southwest Stakes on Friday at Oaklawn Park could have a completely different pace scenario than the track’s first Kentucky Derby points race of the season, the Smarty Jones. “There’s a...
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BACK IN ACTION
Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark., returns to action Thursday after a planned break that was extended a week by Winter Storm Fern. Thursday’s overflowing 10-race card matches Grade 3 winners Speed King and Komorebino Omoide in the $150,000 Fifth...
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STEPPING UP
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Todd Pletcher reported that Holy Bull winner Nearly came out of Saturday’s race in good order and was enjoying the unseasonably cold South Florida weather along with the rest of his stablemates at the Palm Beach Downs...
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PARX MAHONING VALLEY WILL ROGERS LA. DOWNS TURF PARADISE
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Vonn injured ahead of Olympics
Just a week before the opening ceremony at the Milan Cortina Olympics, Lindsey Vonn was injured during a crash at the final downhill event before the Olympics. Vonn, 41, lost control and got tangled in the safety nets. The event was later canceled due...
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‘SKIPPY’ TAKES JUMP
HALLANDALE, Fla.– Trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. had one word to describe his feelings the morning after sending out Skippylongstocking and White Abarrio to finish first and second, respectively, in Saturday’s $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational....
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FBI investigating Irsay’s death
The FBI have begun an investigation into the death of former Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay, who died in May at the age of 65. After his death, it was revealed that Irsay had a difficult stretch with his health, including 26 surgeries in the past...
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GULFSTREAM PARK
Mandatory-payout Rainbow 6 (Races 8-13) Estimated pool: $4M Post: 2:41 p.m. ET
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CLASSY PAST
ARCADIA, Calif. – Seeing that favorites are winning at a 46 percent clip this winter at Santa Anita, perhaps bettors should back the obvious Friday in the featured fifth race on the hillside turf course. However, that means wagering on a Grade 1...
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BIG CREDENTIALS
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Thursday evening figures to be a memorable one for the potent jockey and trainer combination of Junior Alvarado and Bill Mott, who are likely to be spending plenty of time at the podium accepting accolades for Sovereignty at...
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MIGHTY CLIMB
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Brad Cox will hold the upper hand when he sends out the undefeated Disco Time and Florida Derby winner Tappan Street against 10 rivals in Saturday’s $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational at Gulfstream Park. The...
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FINISHING STRONG
Mrs. Astor is nearing the end of her career, which has bloomed with five stakes wins in the last 14 months. A 6-year-old mare, Mrs. Astor will be heavily favored to win Monday’s $100,000 Astra Stakes at 1 1/2 miles on turf for fillies and mares at...
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HEAD OF THE CLASS
It’s mid-January, and while the Lecomte Stakes marks the first 42-point Derby qualifying race on Churchill Downs’s Road to the Kentucky Derby, it comes too early to be termed a significant Derby prep, right? Wrong. While the last two Lecomtes produced...
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TIGHTENING UP
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Bill Mott said he’d prefer not to run Batten Down and Stars and Stripes against one another to open their 2026 campaigns. But with few options available locally around two turns for older horses, such will be the case...
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AQUEDUCT One Nine Hundred, Vettriano set to battle up front
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – One Nine Hundred and Vettriano, two very fast sprinters, look set to have a throwdown Friday at Aqueduct in a second-level allowance/optional $75,000 claiming race at six furlongs. One Nine Hundred, a Kentucky-bred 4-year-old son of...
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EYES ON THE PRIZE
Sovereignty, the dual-classic winner; Thorpedo Anna, the 2024 Horse of the Year; and 12 of the 14 winners of Breeders’ Cup races were among those announced Sunday as finalists for Eclipse Awards, which honor the 2025 champions of Thoroughbred...
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Pasta tariffs lowered
After initially proposing sky-high tariffs on pasta in October, Italy and the United States announced that those tariffs won’t be that high. Initially threatened at 92 percent, on top of other 15 percent tariffs on the European Union, the tariffs were...
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NEXT LEVEL
Wakuda will attempt to win her third consecutive race Sunday at Oaklawn Park in the $150,000 Mockingbird, a stakes that last year produced a Breeders’ Cup winner in Shisospicy. The Mockingbird, which is for 3-year-old fillies at six furlongs, closes...
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CLASS OF THE FIELD
ARCADIA, Calif. – The first dirt stakes of the season for California 3-year-old fillies always begins in predictable fashion, which bodes well for odds-on Explora in the $100,000 Santa Ynez Stakes on Saturday at Santa Anita. If she runs as expected in...
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HOME ON TURF
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Carlos Martin is hoping Glorious Boy can earn his second straight stakes win and that he can do so in a lot less dramatic fashion when facing nine other 3-year-olds Thursday at Gulfstream Park in the $175,000 Dania...
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Rice looks to pad record win total on final card
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainer Linda Rice looks poised to add to her record-setting season totals in New York with eight entrants in five of the eight races on Wednesday’s Aqueduct card, the final program of 2025. Rice enters the day with 171 wins,...
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Koepka to leave LIV Tour
Golfer Brooks Koepka announced last week that he will no longer be playing on the LIV Golf Tour, making him the first golfer to defect from the league. Koepka, 35, cited that he wanted to spend more time with his family. Talor Gooch will replace Koepka...
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BIG PLANS
ARCADIA, Calif. – A Grade 2 stakes Monday on the hillside course at Santa Anita would provide an ideal middle ground for a pair of turf specialists whose running styles are as different as their upcoming campaigns. However, little is ideal about the...
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BAFFERT SENDS OUT TOP FIVE CHOICES IN MALIBU,
ARCADIA, Calif. – The show starts late this season at Santa Anita, two days late, which is no big deal for five late-developing Bob Baffert trainees entered in the Grade 1 Malibu Stakes. Due to a severe rainstorm, Santa Anita tweaked tradition by...
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IN THE WINGS
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – A year ago, White Abarrio used a start in the sevenfurlong Mr. Prospector as a stepping-stone to one of the most impressive and important victories of his career, a 6 1/4-length triumph in Gulfstream Park’s signature event, the...
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Coast Guard chasing vessel off Venezuela
Reports came in Sunday night that the United States Coast Guard was in “active pursuit” of a sanctioned vessel in international waters off Venezuela. The vessel, known as Bella 1, was placed on the U.S. sanctions list in June 2024 for its connection to...
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NASCAR’s Biffle dies in plane crash
NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, along with his wife, two children, and three other people, died Thursday in a plane crash in North Carolina. Details of the crash are still unclear, but the Federal Aviation Administration is taking over the investigation....
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STOCKING STUFFER
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Horseplayers will be given an early Christmas present on Sunday when Gulfstream Park offers a mandatory payout of the Rainbow 6 pool, which figures to have a carryover of nearly $300,000 and a final jackpot estimated in the...
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SOFT LANDING
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Florida Derby winner Tappan Street, the only competitor to finish in front of likely Horse of the Year Sovereignty in 2025, will launch his highly anticipated comeback as an overwhelming favorite going a mile under optional...
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BACK ON THE TRAIL
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The Harlan’s Holiday and Fort Lauderdale, both Grade 3 stakes, traditionally serve as the final local preps for the $3 million Pegasus World Cup and $1 million Pegasus World Cup Turf. That will be the case again Saturday when...
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FLYING COLORS
CYPRESS, Calif. – Litmus Test will start his 2026 campaign in coming months as one of California’s leading 3-year-old prospects, a status confirmed by his win in Saturday’s Grade 2 Los Alamitos Futurity. There were signs in recent months that he would...
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ONE LAST SHOT
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – It’s been hard to get Kentucky bourbon in Ontario due to the current trade war between the United States and Canada. Those missing the popular whiskey could pad their bankroll with hunch play Awesome Bourbon in Sunday’s $100,000...
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RICH MEET OPENS WITH OVERFLOW STALL DEMAND,
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Oaklawn Park might be more than 120 years old, but its team has managed to give each passing meet a fresh feel. That will again be the case Friday when the Arkansas track launches a 64-date season that continues through May 2. The...
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Louvre works damaged by flooding
Hundreds of pieces of art at the Louvre were damaged last week when a pipe burst, causing flooding in three separate rooms. Between 300 to 400 works in one of the Egyptian antiquities libraries in the museum were damaged. The flooding is the latest...
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ONE-TURN ACE
Even though the distance of the $20 million Saudi Cup on Feb. 14 at King Abdulaziz Racetrack is 1 1/8 miles, trainer Brad Cox believes Bishops Bay – who is a top-class miler – fits in the world’s richest horse race. “Because it’s one turn,” Cox said....
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Olympic flame lit
The Olympic flame for the upcoming Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics was lit Friday at the presidential palace in Milan. A torch, ignited last month in ancient Olympia, the Greek birthplace of the ancient Games, was handed over in Athens to Italian...
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SECOND ATTEMPT
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Kappa Kappa passed her graded stakes debut when she came back on after getting overtaken in the stretch by Vodka With a Twist to win the Grade 2 Raven Run Stakes seven weeks ago at Keeneland. Sunday, Kappa Kappa will get tested for...
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A LITTLE BIT MORE
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – For as well as Phileas Fogg has run over the last 12 months, winning three stakes and finishing in the money in three others – a disqualification from third in the Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup not withstanding – trainer Gustavo...
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Winter 2025 Los Alamitos Race Course
When the Del Mar autumn meeting ended on Sunday, jockey Juan Hernandez found himself in an unfamiliar position. Instead of winning the riding title, as he had done at the preceding five summer and autumn meetings at Del Mar, Hernandez finished sixth...
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CARRIED INTEREST
If racing resumes at Aqueduct Thursday, following the jockeys’ refusal to ride the last eight races Sunday due to differences with New York Racing Association management, there will be a $79,410 carryover in the pick six. The pick six went unhit both...
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Salamis earns Brown a record fifth win in Hollywood Derby
DEL MAR, Calif. – The late Hall of Fame trainer Charlie Whittingham needed 22 years to win four runnings of the Hollywood Derby at Hollywood Park from 1967 to 1989. Chad Brown won a record fifth running of the Grade 1 Hollywood Derby at Del Mar on...
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UPS fleet grounded
A fleet of planes used by UPS, which was expected to be back in service following a crash in early November in Louisville, has further been delayed due to continued inspections and testing. The delays are expected to impact holiday shipping. The...
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Death toll rising in Hong Kong fire
The estimated death toll of a massive fire that has filled the Hong Kong sky with smoke has now reached 128 as of Friday. The fire started last week in a high-rise building in a popular neighborhood in Hong Kong. The government estimates an additional...
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SHIPPERS AHOY!
To find the winner of the Grade 1 Matriarch Stakes in fall at Del Mar, start with the shippers. Seven of 11 Matriarch winners at Del Mar made their most recent start outside California, three others were making their second start in California. The...
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BRIGHT FUTURE
Only in October does the 3-year-old dirtroute set converge with the older dirt-route division, at least in graded stakes competition. So far this year – advantage older horses. Granted, 2025’s best 3-year-old, Sovereignty, got sick and missed the...
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Gulfstream Championship Meet 2025-26
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – There will be few changes at the 2025-26 Championship meet at Gulfstream Park, which opens for a second straight season on Thanksgiving Day, and runs through March 29. The stakes schedule pretty much mirrors those of the past...
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CLASS BREAK
Trainer Butch Reid entered three juveniles in the $100,000 Pennsylvania Nursery Stakes on Wednesday at Parx Racing, casting a long shadow in the statebred field of eight. The trainer’s best shot could be Flyin Hawaiian, who will make his first start as...
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TOUGH CUSTOMER
Brotha Keny and Mister Omaha will both be returning to the straight 3-year-old ranks Tuesday when they invade New Mexico to start as chief contenders in the $300,000 Zia Park Derby. The 1 1/16-mile race that drew nine anchors the $1.1 million Land of...
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HIGH CALIBER
He returned from a layoff to win in September at Churchill Downs with a career-best Beyer Speed Figure and now seeks a rich stakes prize in November. He’s not Bentornato, but another Jose D’Angelo trainee, Guns Loaded, who makes his second start off a...
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BIG STEP UP
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Disco Time’s dominant and fast victory in Saturday’s $200,000 Dwyer Stakes earned him a shot at the $20 million Saudi Cup on Feb. 14 in Riyadh and that could very well be the undefeated colt’s next start. The Saudi Cup is 98 days...
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North Korea fires missile near South Korea
South Korean officials said Friday that North Korea had fired a ballistic missile that landed approximately 434 miles off the coast of South Korea. While North Korea hasn’t confirmed the launch, Japan said it landed in waters outside the country’s...
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ON THE CUSP
The final two stakes races of the Finger Lakes season take place on Monday, with the $45,000 Shesastonecoldfox Stakes and $45,000 Tin Cup Chalice Stakes. Two juveniles from these fields of seven and nine, respectively, will come away with their first...
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TWO-WAY THREAT
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainer George Weaver is looking forward to getting Zuby on turf in Sunday’s $150,000 Awad Stakes for 2-year-olds at Aqueduct. However, if forecasted rain showers force the race to the dirt, Weaver will be equally as happy to run the...
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BACK IN THE GAME
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – When the connections of Drexel Hill had to stop on their 3-year-old filly due to a knee chip following her runner-up finish in the Kentucky Oaks in May, the intent was to bring her back for a 4-year-old campaign. But the daughter of...
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Titanic Thompson needs his speed to catch up to his size
DEL MAR, Calif. – It’s back to normal this week at Del Mar, but there is nothing normal about a massive gray colt who figures to win the featured seventh race on Friday. The Breeders’ Cup runners with big reputations have left town, but a horse with a...
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TITLE CONTENDERS
DEL MAR, Calif. – The results of the Breeders’ Cup may have done more to cloud than clear up the picture as far as Eclipse Awards for 2025 are concerned, and some of the stronger candidates in certain divisions may be those who didn’t participate in...
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GRAND SLAM
DEL MAR, Calif. – Admittedly hung over, behind dark sunglasses, wearing a widebrim hat with Torrey Pines emblazoned on it and a Shohei Ohtani T-shirt, Yoshito Yahagi could have been mistaken for any jubilant Los Angeles Dodgers fan early Sunday...
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