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Savanna Holds On Over Appreciate to Win Chilukki
Since arriving with Spb Racing through a $7.500 claim, Savanna had won back to back races, first being an allowance and then an ungraded stake. The filly would look to take another step forward as she took on graded company for the first time in the Chilukki.
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Time to Appreciate the Chilukki Field
There weren’t many horses that decided to take a shot at the Grade 3 Chilukki at CD, even with the race’s generous $300.000 purse. Just five will be heading to the starting gate for this, the nineteenth running of the race. Don’t worry, though, because it is not short on quality!
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Temperature Brings the Heat in The Pebbles
It was back to the grass for Temperature, a horse that Riggins Racing spent $375.000 on early in the year and turned in decent results, but the expectations were likely higher. She had been running well on the tturf, but the trainer took a couple cracks at the main track, and the results were similar: good, but not great.
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Dominant Win for Lunar Victory in Lake Ontario Stakes
The Lake Ontario Stakes took place on Friday at WO, sending a field of five a little more than a mile around the main track. On paper, this was not the most exciting of races, as it lacked a headliner and consisted of horses that have, with one exception, struggled to win over their careers.
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Field of Ten to Run in The Pebbles at AQU
This Saturday at AQU, ten three year old fillies will head to the starting for the 20th running of the Pebbles, a Grade 3 race that is held on the turf. It marks that second time that the race has been run at the Big A, as it had been at BEL up until last year.
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Lake Ontario Stakes Lacks Headliner, Offers Opportunity
While many of us are still thinking about what happened in the BC, the race calendar never stops, and we move on to the next weekend. The Lake Ontario Stakes will not be a race that makes people forget about the BC, but it’s happening on Friday and offers a decent purse so we can still take a look at it.
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Atomic Eclipse Edges Penal Hockey Party to Capture BC Mile
With so many good options to choose from in the BC Mile, not many people got behind Atomic Eclipse. The six year old gelding would go off as the second longest shot on the board at 34/1 and was hardly picked in the Pick ‘em. He came into the race off a couple of runner ups in Grade 2’s, which are results to be proud of, but others in the field just seemed to have raced in tougher spots and also had success in them.
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Lady Sammyantha Prevails in BC Fillies & Mares Sprint
The top female sprinters made their way to SA to crown a BC champion amongst them in the running of the BC Fillies & Mares Sprint. There may be races that get a little more fanfare, but that doesn’t mean that we should not give these fine runners their just due. Amongst them was Lady Sammyantha, a five year old Ginger Haggis mare who was making her second appearance in the race.
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Painville Brings the Pain to the Field in BC Fillies & Mares Turf
The running of the BC Fillies and Mares Turf featured a couple of absolutely elite horses going up against others who were eager for the opportunity to give them the pain of coming up short in the BC. In such a deep field, Painville was not made one of my choices for the race, simply because of the quality of competition.
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Maxmillion Farm Brings Strong Pair to BC Mile
Up next, on our look at BC weekend, we bring you the 21st running of the BC Mile, which is an open race for three year olds and upward on the grass. Alpha Ultimo would go down as the first ever winner of the race, and since then the race has seen the likes of Jagged Account (2006 and 2008), Seven Years (2014), Sir Tom (2015), and Iron Nation (2020) be just some of those who have taken home the coveted trophy for this race.
