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Stronach Stable's undefeated Awesome Feather, unraced since winning the Sunshine Millions Distaff in January at Gulfstream Park, continues to flourish while training at Saratoga Race Course. The 4-year-old Awesome of Course filly put in her fourth timed work over the Oklahoma training track Aug. 8, covering four furlongs in :50.65. 
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The king of the Cajuns, Star Guitar, has been retired after a sensational career in which he captured 24 of his 30 starts and three consecutive Louisiana-bred horse of the year titles.
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Cambina (Ire) and Nereid stand out as the lone Grade 1 winners in the field for the John C. Mabee Stakes (G2) on Sunday at Del Mar. The two fillies have met before—they dead heated for the victory in last year's American Oaks (G1).
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THE versatile Wise Dan (Charles Lopresti/John Velazquez), one of the top dirt horses in the States, reverts to turf in search of the winner's share of a lucrative $500,000 prize for the Fourstardave.
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Jockey Leslie Mawing rode the 2,000th winner of his career on the Aug. 9 evening card at Emerald Downs in Washington state.
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On Thursday night (August 9) at Ocean Downs, the Maryland Horse Industry Board, under the Maryland Department of Agriculture, awarded Marylander John Wagner a Citation for his driving accomplishments.
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After competing over half- and five-eighths mile ovals through the first two Gold Series events, 2-year-old trotting filly Bee A Magician got a chance to stretch her legs and show off her skills at Mohawk Racetrack in last week’s Gold eliminations.
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Jockey Leslie Mawing rode the 2,000th winner of his career Thursday evening at Emerald Downs. The 38-year-old native of Johannesburg, South Africa achieved the milestone aboard Grand Baylee in the fifth race, rallying the 3-year-old Lion Heart filly from far back for a 5-to-1 upset over odds-on favorite Tullamore Dew.
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FRANKIE DETTORI has been booked for Elusive Kate in Sunday's Group 1 Prix Jacques le Marois after John Gosden's stable jockey William Buick elected to stick with her stablemate Fallen For You.
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Wheeling N Dealin, a rookie son of Cantab Hall--Quick Credit, has stamped himself as a top contender heading into the C$50,000 Bridger Trotting Series Final on Monday, Aug. 20 at Mohawk.
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New York State’s top 2- and 3--year-old pacers and trotters have less than seven weeks to earn a spot in one of the eight $225,000 New York Sire Stakes Finals, to be raced on the Night of Champions at Yonkers Raceway, Sept. 22.
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Doctor Butch (pictured) was the fastest as the New York Sire Stakes invaded Yonkers Raceway Thursday night with the $285,120 Jim Meagher Pace for 2-year-old colts and geldings. The event, honoring the memory of the Raceway's long-time corporate controller, went as a fearsome foursome.
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The New York Sire Stakes invaded Yonkers Raceway on Thursday night, with the $285,120 Jim Meagher Pace for 2-year-old colts and geldings.
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Trainer Jimmy Toner was a mix of stoic and sentimental as he talked Friday morning about multiple Grade 1 winner Winter Memories, whose retirement midway through her four-year-old campaign was announced Thursday afternoon.
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Familiar faces will meet again in the La Jolla Handicap (G2) for three-year-olds on Saturday on the Del Mar turf. All five of the runners in the 1 1/16 mile event, including 2-to-1 morning-line favorite My Best Brother, exit divisions of the Oceanside Stakes on opening day at the California track.
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The richest division of the New York Sire Stakes to date this year will be held at Saratoga Casino and Raceway on Tuesday (August 14). A total of 15 horses are entered to compete in the NYSS for 3-year-old trotting colts, with two divisions going postward and battling for $117,000 and $119,000, respectively.
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The Zweig Memorial 3-year-old trot will have both a new location and format in 2012. Raced on Sunday (August 26) over Vernon Downs' highly regarded seven-eighths-mile strip for the first time, the race is expected to attract the top sophomores in training.
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The top sophomore pacers in New York will gather at Tioga Downs on Sunday afternoon (August 12) for the rich Empire Breeders Classic finals. Ken Jacobs' Heston Blue Chip has been towering over the New York Sires Stakes competition all summer and comes into the $270,000 EBC colt final in fine fettle.
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Thursday’s (August 9) edition of Racing Roundup features results stories from Vernon Downs, Scioto Downs and Saratoga Casino and Raceway.
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DAWN APPROACH, unbeaten in four starts this season as a two-year-old, will not attempt to stretch the sequence to five on Sunday at the Curragh after failing to feature among the final declarations for the Phoenix Stakes.
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Horse racing is a game of inches, or potentially shorter depending on the margin of victory or defeat that may have impacted your bet. When Trakus compares performances within a race, it can sound meaningful to some and trivial to others.
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Wheeling N Dealin, a rookie son of Cantab Hall, has stamped himself as a top contender heading into the $50,000 Bridger Trotting Series final on Monday (Aug. 20) at Mohawk. The bay remains perfect in three outings to start his young career as he took his $30,000 division in the second round of the Bridger Trotting Series on Thursday evening at Mohawk. Trained by Dustin Jones, Wheeling N Dealin stopped the timer in 1:59.1.
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Harness racing returned to the Greene County Fairgrounds in Waynesburg, Pa. on Thursday, Aug. 9. with 12 heats for freshmen.
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Googoo Gaagaa was back to his winning ways on Thursday night as he captured a $20,555 Maryland Standardbred Race Fund event in 1:57.4 at Ocean Downs. With Corey Callahan driving for trainer Richard Hans, he won by open lengths over Windshield, who was undefeated in six starts this season. Googoo Gaagaa was making his first start since breaking stride in the Stanley Dancer Memorial at the Meadowlands.
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Casie Coleman always knew Sarandon Blue Chip possessed sizable talent. She just had to wait for the pacing filly to grow into it. With Dave Miller in the sulky, Sarandon Blue Chip reeled off an impressive 1:50.1 victory in the $125,000 Miss New Jersey on Hambletonian Day. The three-year-old daughter of Western Ideal wheels right back in a $15,000 condition event on Saturday night at the Meadowlands Racetrack. She will start from post three in the evening's tenth race.
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