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All eyes will be on the Arlington Park turf course outside of Chicago Saturday when the International Festival of Racing is highlighted by the Arlington Million (gr. I), which will offer a guaranteed berth into the Nov. 3 Breeders’ Cup Turf (gr. IT) at Santa Anita. 
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Had you asked Mike Guitard in March about the prospects for 2-year-old trotting colt Pullupyoursocks, the Campbellville resident might have predicated nothing short of Ontario Sires Stakes stardom. Unfortunately, as so often happens with promising 2-year-olds, the colt has struggled to find his stride since qualifying in mid-June and will make his first Gold Series start at Mohawk Racetrack on Thursday (August 16).
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McAlvin, a $7,500 yearling acquisition, outperformed his expectations once again on Monday at The Meadows when he ripped off his third straight Pennsylvania Stallion Series victory in a stakes record 1:52.3.
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Arden Downs, namesake of the Arden Downs Stakes and the home of the Washington County Fair, kicked off its annual two-day meet with 3-year-olds in action on Monday (August 13) in Pennsylvania Sire Stake and Quaker Stakes.
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Mr I Am was a perfect five for five in July and was named the Ohio Chapter of the United States Harness Writers Association’s Horse of the Month.
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Zo Impressive was one of three contenders for Saturday's Grade 1 Alabama on the worktab on Monday, turning in a 1:01 4/5 five-furlong breeze on Saratoga's fast main track.
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Bill Mott is getting down to serious business, as he prepares several of his top horses for major stakes at Saratoga. Mott worked Royal Delta and To Honor and Serve Monday Aug. 12 for their likely starts in the grade I Personal Ensign Stakes and Woodward Stakes, respectively, and also sent out grade I Sword Dancer probables Al Khali and Newsdad.
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Joseph Allen's French stakes veteran Vertiformer, pre-entered last week for both the 30th anniversary edition of the Grade 1 Arlington Million and the inaugural running of the $400,000 American St. Leger this Saturday, breezed five furlongs in 1:06 4/5 Monday morning over Arlington's world famous turf course.
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Looking at the winner’s circle after the fifth race at Mohawk Raceway this past Saturday night (August 11), fans might have thought for a moment that the winning connections were Green Bay Packer zealots who had crossed the border. Or maybe a Canadian alumni group from the University of Wisconsin.
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Five retired jockeys will ride against five of the top riders in the Arlington Park standings in the “Arlington Fab vs. Legends" turf race Aug. 17, one day before the 30th running of the Arlington Million (gr. IT) at the Chicago-area track.
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JOHNNY MURTAGH could be back in action at the weekend after x-rays of his head on Monday revealed he suffered only a minor injury. Murtagh was kicked on the right side of his face by Lottie Dod after leaving the parade ring prior to the Keeneland Phoenix Stakes at the Curragh on Sunday.
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This Week: Grand Circuit events will be held this week at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield, the Indiana State Fair in Indianapolis, and at Harrah’s Philadelphia in Pennsylvania.
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Spurious Precision, the only contestant in the Saratoga Special Stakes (gr. II) (VIDEO) with a race over the track, powered his way to a five-length triumph in the 6 1/2-furlong race Aug. 12 over five fellow 2-year-old colts for owners Klaravich Stables and William H. Lawrence.
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The International Festival of Racing at Arlington Park, outside of Chicago, holds the Beverly D. (gr. IT) as a guaranteed berth into the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf (gr. IT) later this fall at Santa Anita.
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Mike Saftic opened Monday’s (August 13) Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots program at Mohawk Racetrack with a pair of victories aboard two talented freshman pacing colts.
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The New York Sires Stakes and Excelsior for freshman trotting colts accounted for 10 of the 12 races on the Monday night (August 13) card at Tioga Downs and were true to the promise of unpredictable form that young trotters exhibit.
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Grade I winner Liaison figures to be Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert's lone representative in the $1 million Travers Stakes (gr. I) at Saratoga Race Course Aug. 25 as Zayat Stables' grade I winner Paynter has been declared from the race.
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After seeing his four horses draw the four inside posts for Friday night’s $191,500 Moni Maker Stakes at Meadowlands Racetrack, trainer Jonas Czernyson joked he might have depleted his allotment of luck
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Liaison, third in the Grade 2 Jim Dandy, will be Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert's lone representative in the Grade 1, $1 million Travers on August 25. The Indian Charlie colt worked five furlongs in 1:00 1/5 on Saratoga's fast main track Monday morning.
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Trainer Aidan O'Brien said on Sunday that he and Coolmore management were considering entering multiple Grade/Group 1 winner St Nicholas Abbey (Ire) in the Juddmonte International Stakes (Eng-G1) on August 22 at York.
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Spurious Precision emerged from his Grade 2 Saratoga Special victory in good order and will make his next start in the Grade 1 Champagne Stakes on October 6 at Belmont Park, trainer Rick Violette confirmed Monday.
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Dale Romans' three of a kind of Cozzetti, Finnegans Wake, and Silver Max gives the trainer a strong hand with which to become the first conditioner to sweep Arlington's Mid-America Triple with different horses when the trio goes postward on Saturday in the Grade 1 Secretariat Stakes, a race Romans has already won twice with Ken and Sarah Ramsey's Kitten's Joy (2004) and Donegal Racing's Paddy O'Prado (2010).
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The New York Racing Association has designated Friday, Aug. 17, as “Fabulous Fillies Day” at Saratoga Race Course and activities throughout the day will help support the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
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The C.K.G. Billings Harness Driving Championship Series moved on to the Big Apple on August 11 where two divisions were contested at Yonkers Raceway.
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William DeBurgh, Jerry Hollendorfer, and Mark DeDominico’s City to Citymade it a bustling finish in the John C. Mabee Stakes (gr. IIT) (VIDEO) at Del Mar Aug. 12, hurtling down the center of the turf course to catch All Star Heartright on the wire to take the $250,000 event by a nose.
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