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  • Sin City Girlz Opens Up Then Hangs on to Win Dowager

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    Long races on the turf are nothing new for Sin City Girlz, and in a race that seemed to lack a major headliner, her experience in races like the Glens Falls and Flower Bowl seemed to be valuable for the Dowager, and with that we made her our pick to win.

  • Late Run Gives Smokin Cara Raven Run

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    It came down to the wire, and a tight photo for the stewards to look at closely between Smokin Cara and Shadow State, but in the end, it would be Smokin Cara getting the headbob at the very last moment in order to prevail in the Raven Run.

  • Dowager Is Truly a Wide Open Race

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    Seven fillies and mares will be heading to the starting gate on Sunday for the 17th running of the Dowager, a race that will take them the maximum mile and a half around the turf course at KEE. The Dowager was an ungraded stake originally, and would receive it’s graded designation in 2015.

  • Raven Run Draws a Field of Nine

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    While many trainers are beginning to think about the BC in a couple of weeks, there is still plenty of entertaining races to hold us over until then. This Saturday at KEE, we get one of those races as a generous $350.000 purse is being offered in the 19th running of the Grade 2 Raven Run.

  • Five Horses, Two Winners in Sycamore

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    There may not have been anything spooky that took place on Friday the 13th’s running of the Sycamore, but what we did see was twelve furlongs not being enough to have a single winner. After running the full distance, a dead heat was the result, coming between our pick in the preview, Anemoi, and Real One.

  • Anemoi Looks to Bring the Pain in Sycamore

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    It’s Friday the 13th, and five horses will be spending the day going a full mile and a half around the KEE turf course for the 19th running of the Grade 3 Sycamore. It’s a race that last year saw the purse get increased to $300.000 after traditionally being anywhere between $100.000 and $150.000.

  • Stinky Rene Runs Swiftly In Stretch To Capture Taylor Stakes

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    It’s almost hard to believe that just two months ago at the Beverly D, I was looking at that race and saw Stinky Rene has being an unlikely candidate to win. Something has happened with this filly, and whatever it is that TwinTowersRacing figured out to get her to finally show the ability that he always knew that she had, it has translated into victories.

  • Demanding Commander Painlessly Prevails in First Lady

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    You know it’s a fantastic day of virtual racing when a $750.000 Grade 1 isn’t big enough to get into an eight-race Pick ’em! That’s because it was not a “win and you’re in” race for the BC, but in spite of that, you can count on several horses from this race running in the BC at SA next month. Demanding Commander was not one of them in 2022 despite having a good season that saw her win close to $700.000.

  • Purple Charger Opens Up And Hangs On To Win Alcibiades

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    In July, Fractious purchased Purple Charger for $550.000 a few weeks after winning the Astoria, and the investment is already paying off. The filly had look strong in her first two races for Fractious, winning the Schuylerville, but now a much greater purse would await her in the Alcibiades.

  • Let Me Explain Cruises By Rivals In Stretch To Win Jessamine

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    Let Me Explain may have already been BC bound, but if there was any doubts about that, they were erased as this impressive two year old filly by People Pleaser picked up her fourth consecutive win in what was her first race going long. Safe to say, that went very well, and she didn’t look to run this in the same manner as she has become accustomed to early in her career.