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Sunday’s $777,6000 Prix du Haras de Fresnay-Le-Buffard Jacques le Marois (Fr-I) at Deauville will award an automatic berth into the Nov. 2 Breeders’ Cup Mile (gr. IT) at Santa Anita. Under the enhanced conditions of the Breeders’ Cup Challenge, the Le Marois winner will have its entry fees for the Mile paid for and the winning connections will receive $20,000 in travel expenses. 
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Trainer Greg Tracy notched his 1,000th career victory on Monday when he sent out Claresmiezie to win the $50,000 Assiniboia Oaks at Assiniboia Downs in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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Acl Suteri's Mado Dream, who'd been second twice, third and then eighth in four prior New York Sire Stakes appearances, got the job done at Monticello Raceway Monday afternoon, cruising to a wire-to-wire 1:57.2 victory with Jeff Gregory in the sulky in the second $83,922 division of the NYSS 3-Year-Old Colt and Gelding Trot.
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As trainer/owner Peter Arrigenna well knows, even getting into Saturday’s $1.5 million Hambletonian at the Meadowlands Racetrack was a challenge. “To get there is one of the hardest things to do,” he said two days later.
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ACL Suteri’s Mado Dream, who’d been second twice and third once in three prior New York Sire Stakes appearances, got the job done at Monticello Raceway on Monday afternoon (August 6), cruising to a wire-to-wire, 1:57.2 victory with Jeff Gregory in the sulky in the second $83,922 division of the NYSS 3-year-old colt and gelding trot.
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Following in the footsteps of his father Robbie and sister Jackie, 18-year-old apprentice jockey Dylan Davis made his riding debut at Saratoga Race Course Monday afternoon.
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Macharoundtheclock surged three wide down the backstretch en route to a 1:55.1 stakes record equalling performance in the fourth edition of the $150,000 Battle of the Belles for 2-year-old Ontario sired pacing fillies during Grand River Raceway's annual Industry Day on Monday afternoon. The race is the co-feature on a card that will culminate in the $300,000 Battle of Waterloo for freshman colt pacers.
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Some of the world's best jockeys descend upon Ascot on Saturday for the Shergar Cup, an international competition comprising four teams of jockeys. The line-up for the Rest of the World team of male jockeys is 18-time champion Yutaka Take (Captain, Japan), Dubai World Cup-winning Aaron Gryder (United States) and rising star Matthew Chadwick (Hong Kong).
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Poseidon's Warrior, upset winner of the Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap (gr. I) Aug. 5, could make his next start in the seven-furlong, $500,000 Forego Stakes (gr. I) at Saratoga Race Course Sept. 1.
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Googoo Gaagaa is ready to return to action.
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The Irish, the Jewish, the African-Americans, the Germans, and the ladies now have a representative in Monticello Raceway’s final of the Heritage Drivers Series as a result of winning their ethnic preliminary legs earlier this year. And after a winner is declared in the track’s Godfather Pace slated for Monday afternoon (August 27) so will the Italians.
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The German Trotting Derby, raced at the historic Mariendorf track in Berlin, was won by Dream Magic Be with Josef Franzl, who actually was second past the post. The winner was disqualified for being owned by the same owner and trained by the same trainer as another horse in the race that made a break at the last corner.
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Longtime Saratoga driver Dan Cappello, Jr. did something on Saturday night (August 4) that no other driver before him has done in the previous 70 years of racing at Saratoga Casino and Raceway. The 53-year-old reinsman won for the 5,000th time in his illustrious career on Saturday, piloting Cheyenne Cam to victory in wire-to-wire fashion.
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If the first three Breeders’ Cup Challenge races were any indication, the road to the 29th Breeders’ Cup Classic (gr. I) Nov. 3 at Santa Anita (NBC 8-9 p.m. ET) is going to be one fun ride. Fort Larned’s victory in Saturday’s Whitney (gr. I) at Saratoga marked the halfway point, in a sense, as three of the six “Win and You’re In” races for the Classic have now been run. With three down—and all three were won by different horses—and three to go, it’s clear the Classic is anyone’s race.
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Mom's Apple Pie scored her first victory in last week’s Ontario Sires Stakes Gold eliminations at Mohawk Racetrack, but trainer Bill Budd says he has been sweet on the 2-year-old trotting filly since she arrived in his barn last fall.
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Lady Laker lowered the stakes record by a full second in Monday's $50,000 final of the In Free Trotting Series at Mohawk, and completed her sweep of the series for 2-year-old fillies. The Allen Tomlinson trainee and driver Trevor Ritchie went coast to coast to stop the clock in a career-best performance of 1:57.1.
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Monday was a good day to be Dave Menary. A perfect summer afternoon set the stage for Grand River Raceway’s 22nd annual Industry Day event, and it was Menary who triumphed in both of the biggest dashes of the day. The 33-year-old trainer took the lion’s share of the races’ combined purses of $450,000.
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Me And Cinderella turned his Pennsylvania Stallion Series rivals into pumpkins on Monday (August 6) at The Meadows when he triumphed in 1:57 to equal the stakes record.
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A multiple Grade 1 winner and a pair of Grade 2 winners are among those entered for Saturday's Grade 3, $100,000 Gardenia over one mile, but the presence of the trio has initially failed to scare off challengers as the names of 11 fillies and mares were dropped in the entry box for Ellis Park's signature event.
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Kentucky Oaks (gr. I) winner Believe You Can had her first workout at Saratoga Race Course Aug. 6, breezing over the Oklahoma training track in preparation for the Alabama Stakes (gr. I) on Aug. 18.
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It has been a “family feud” every time a field of older Minnesota-sired trotters comes to the gate at Running Aces this season. It will likely be no exception when the first race is called to post on Wednesday night (August 8) for a weekly $5,500 trot restricted to state-bred 4-year-olds and up.
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Tucked away on a quiet corner of Shadai Farm on Japan’s island of Hokkaido is a broodmare barn known as “Terry’s Jewel Box.” When a visitor to Teruya Yoshida’s more than 1,200-acre nursery gets a peek inside this barn, the meaning of the nickname is immediately clear. The mares who live here are all gems of the rarest kind, grade or group I winners or producers from around the globe, including the United States.
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Vernon Downs is gearing up to host its first Drivers’ Championship during State Fair weekend on Sunday (August 26). This year’s competition begins on closing night at the Meadowlands, Friday, August 17. The participants will be available for a fan meet & greet as well as an autograph session on the apron beginning at 6 p.m.
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Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug.
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There is a bit more to it than going fast and turning left —although that is what Katie Miller did Sunday at the Inverness Raceway.
She is one of just a handful of women who have turned their hearts over to racing the hooved beasts.
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