Turbulent Descent made her first start for her new connections a winning one Aug. 24, taking the $500,000 Ballerina Stakes (gr. I) at Saratoga Race Course by 1 1/4 lengths and punching her ticket to the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (gr. I).
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Big Band Sound, second in four consecutive Woodbine stakes races since this spring, looks to finally break through as the 3-1 morning line pick in the $200,000 Play the King Stakes (Can-IIT) Aug. 26. 
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Fourstardave Handicap (gr. IIT) winner Wise Dan turned in his first work back since the Aug. 11 test, blazing a sensational four furlongs in :45.89 Aug. 24 on the Oklahoma turf at Saratoga Race Course.
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Groupie Doll, the only horse in the North American filly-mare sprint division to win two Grade 1 races this year, is definitely pointing to the premier race of the Presque Isle Downs meet, the $400,000 Masters on Sept. 8, after breezing a sharp five furlongs in 58 seconds early Friday at Churchill.
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Historic Vernon Downs will revisit its former glory on Sunday afternoon (August 26), the final day of the recreation of State Fair weekend. Being raced for the first time at Vernon, the Dr. Harry M. Zweig Memorial has attracted the very finest 3-year-old trotters in the land.
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Murmur Hanover displayed the heart of a champion at Mohawk Racetrack on Thursday evening, battling back in the stretch to score a nose victory in an Ontario Sires Stakes record 1:55.2.
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Thursday’s (August 23) edition of Racing Roundup features results stories from Saratoga Casino and Raceway, Vernon Downs and Scioto Downs.
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Murmur Hanover displayed the heart of a champion at Mohawk Racetrack on Thursday evening (August 23), battling back in the stretch to score a nose victory in an Ontario Sires Stakes record of 1:55.2.
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Qualifying races will be held Friday, Aug. 24, at Freehold Raceway. In a letter dated Aug. 23, 2012, Standardbred Breeders and Owners Association of New Jersey president Tom Luchento stated, "in Dennis Dowd, Esq.'s letter to you (Howard Bruno) dated August 21, 2012, he states at the end of the second paragraph that the track, in its present condition, remains unsafe and dangerous for both the horses and drivers. The SBOA retracts that statement as we conducted no inspection of the track prior to issuing that letter.”
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Reigning Cartier European Horse of the Year Frankel has been assigned an official rating of 140 for his effortless seven-length romp in the Juddmonte International Stakes (Eng-G1) at about 1 ¼ miles at York on Wednesday.
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There was more drama late Wednesday night related to the sale of Richard’s Kid when connections from both barns involved in the sale confronted each other at a post position draw party for Sunday’s TVG Pacific Classic at Burlap Restaurant.
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Three divisions of Pennsylvania Sire Stakes for 2-year-old trotting colts and geldings were contested at Harrah's Philadelphia on Thursday, with purses for the three divisions ranging from $111,708 to $112,108. Major Athens, who won an elimination for the Peter Haughton Memorial last month, was the fastest of the winners, turning in an open-lengths victory in 1:55. The other winners were Spider Blue Chip and Dontyouforgetit, both clocked in 1:56.
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Standout fillies Royal Delta and It's Tricky met three times last year in major events. With both among the leaders in the older female division, they meet for the first time this season in the Personal Ensign Invitational Handicap (G1) on Sunday at Saratoga Race Course.
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One of the more fascinating of the many questions surrounding Sunday's 22nd running of the Grade1, $1 million Pacific Classic at Del Mar is this: Will the change in owner, trainer, jockey and immediate surroundings engendered by last weekend's sale effect the performance of Richard's Kid?
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Grade I winner Camp Victory, second in last year's Pat O'Brien Stakes (gr. II), will try again versus five others when the seven-furlong event is renewed Aug. 26 at Del Mar.
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Featherston, Jacobsen, and Miller's Camp Victory, second in last year's Pat O'Brien Stakes (gr. II), will try again versus five others in the race when it is renewed Aug. 26 at Del Mar.
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Hall of Fame jockey Kent Desormeaux is among those intending to ride daily at the upcoming Kentucky Downs meet. Agent J.R. Pegram said from Saratoga this week that Desormeaux then will ride at Keeneland and Churchill afterward.
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Four of the best trotters in Europe are to meet over the mile in the Grand Prix du Conseil Général des Alpes-Maritimes and this could be the race of the year.
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Ocean Downs hosted the Maryland Sire Stakes Showcase of Champions and Carnival of Racing on Thursday night (August 23). The enthusiastic crowd enjoyed a great night of races, hat and shirt giveaways from both the USTA and Ocean Downs, plus drawings for many other prizes. The kids in the crowd were treated to pony rides and face painting plus the Standardbred Star books.
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The producer of "Dances with Wolves," "The Bodyguard," and "Wyatt Earp" will be in New Mexico this fall to work on a new independent feature film about Mine That Bird, longshot winner of the 2009 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I).
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Thursday afternoon produced a perfectly blissful day. But the bliss had little to do with the horse racing. A trio of early races, fraught with unconventional circumstances, were practically unbettable.
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3-year-old pacers rounded out four days of racing at the Crawford County Fair in Meadville, PA on Thursday (August 23).
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Trainer Eric Adams says Mindsweeper’s elimination victory last week was a matter of the right trip on the right day and the Newmarket resident is hoping things work out just as well in Monday’s C$130,000 Gold Final at Mohawk Racetrack.
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Although the two supporting stakes on Sunday's Pacific Classic Day program at Del Mar drew short fields of six apiece, both Grade 2 events feature top-level performers. Coil and Camp Victory are the most accomplished entrants in the $250,000 Pat O'Brien Stakes on Polytrack, while Jeranimo, Mr. Commons and Norvsky are the big names in the $200,000 Del Mar Mile Handicap on turf.
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Demonstrative scored the biggest victory of his career on Thursday at Saratoga Race Course, outdueling Charminster (Ire) to post a narrow win in the New York Turf Writers Cup Steeplechase Handicap.
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