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Big Purse at Stake for Fifth Avenue
Breeding in New York is highly popular within the game, so when a $500.000 NY-bred race is on the schedule, especially involving two year olds, you better believe that the starting gate will be full, and that there will be plenty of talent within it.
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Ladies Want Me Gets the Distance in Hobbs Fall Classic Win
With so few horses in the Hobbs Falls Classic having run long and several of them not even having any public mile works to look at, predicting how the race would go was pretty impossible. Naturally, if they were entered into the race, there was plenty behind the scenes to get their trainers excited.
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This Time Chai Danger Doesn’t Have to Share LCD Turf Trophy
Last year, Chai Danger found himself victorious in the LCD Turf, but he had to share the winner’s circle with another horse. This time, he did one better, winning the race outright. Louisiana Chicken made sure that he was in a tight photo again, but Chai Danger prevails and becomes the first horse to win this race twice.
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Many First Time Routers in Hobbs Fall Classic
This Monday will not be a completely slow day in the virtual world of horse racing, as the eighth running on the Hobbs Falls Classic will take place at ZIA. It is a race for two year olds foaled in NM, and it sends them a little over a mile on the dirt.
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Chai Danger Looks to Win LCD Turf Again
There is plenty of statebred racing on the schedule at FG this Saturday, and one of the races on the card is the 14th running of the LCD Turf, which sends the field a little more than a mile on the grass. It first appeared on the schedule in 2006, but has not been contested every year.
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Coconut Milk Puts The BC Behind Her In The Matriarch
With seven horses returning from the BC Fillies and Mares Turf last month, the field for the Matriarch was impressive. We knew that we were in for a great race as horses had a chance to further make a statement from a strong run in the BC, or to perhaps, get a little redemption.
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Crimson Rioja Runs Down Pacesetters to Win Valedictory Stakes
When races can look similar all too often, when something out of the ordinary happens, it’s at least interesting to write up as an observer. In the 13th running of the Valedictory Stakes, there was nothing common about the way the two horses jumped out to a massive lead, leaving the third place and eventual winner of the race, Crimson Rioja, a total of 14 lengths behind after a half mile
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Figured The Storm Figures Out The Rain In Cigar Mile
Saturday was a wet day at many race tracks across the virtual nation, and AQU was not immune to the raindrops on this day. The track would be downgraded to “good”, but it would not lead to any scratches. When there is a rain, you want a horse that knows how to figure out a storm, so it is only fitting that our pre-race pick to win, Figured The Storm, would end up getting the win.
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Who Will Hook a Winner in Valedictory Stakes?
Sunday will mark the 13th time that the Valedictory Stakes takes place, a race that sends horses twelve furlongs around the main track. It can be considered a smaller Grade 3, given the $150.000 purse.
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The Matriarch Is a Mini BC Fillies and Mares Turf Rematch
A strong field has assembled at DMR for the Grade 1 Matriarch, a race that it almost a rematch of the BC Fillies and Mares Turf from last month. Seven horses in this field ran in that race, and while we won’t have the winner, Perfect Class, here, we will such greats like La Terrifiant, Maggie Greene, Proud Eights, and much more.
