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Wasted Away Makes 2025 Debut in Beholder Mile
The Beholder Mile is the weekend’s lone Grade 1, taking place at SA for older females on the main track. It takes place for the 20th time this year, and for the tenth time here at SA after previously being held at HOL. The $300.000 purse has been common for the race in general, but it is a reduction from the $500.000 that we saw in 2022 and 2023.
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Present Tense to Defend Her Azeri Crown Against Tough Foes
A strong field of nine, featuring six horses that have earned over $1,000.000 in their careers, will be taking part in the 20th running of the Azeri at OP. This is a race that debuted as a Grade 3 in 2005, and was upgraded in 2014, and that is where the classification has been ever since.
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Electric Blue Is Right at Home at SA; Wins Kilroe Mile
Electric Blue certainly loves it when he ends up at SA, and in the Kilroe Mile, he would make it a perfect 3-for-3 at this race track, with all of those wins being graded victories. Last time he was here, he won the Shoemaker Mile, a Grade 1, in May, and that was also the last time that he had won a race.
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Bigchief Stables Captures SA Handicap with No More Rattle
We haven’t seen a lot of No More Rattle, as the six year old gelding was only making his sixth start since 2022, but he has made the most of the races he has been in. Coming into race off a third place run in the Hooper, he seemed like one of the top choices in the field and was the race’s post time favorite.
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Expert Trip Creates a Lunar Victory in GP Mile
Big names were entered into the GP Mile, and they would not disappoint in the race, taking three of the top four spots. Getting the win would be Lunar Victory, the reigning BC Dirt Mile winner, for Mb Stables. It is his first win for the trainer since he was acquired in the December auction.
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It’s Bear Head Over Read Neck in Colonel Liam
It’s another party for Martyparty in the Colonel Liam, as the trainer picked up his second win in the race, last year using Crickets and this year bringing Bear Head. This gelding has just recently been moved to the grass, winning the Texas Turf Mile five weeks ago, and now going 2-for-2 on the surface here in the Colonel Liam.
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Star Studded Field in GP Mile
Without knowing the details, if I said that the reigning BC Dirt Mile winner, Lunar Victory, was going to go up against the likes of Retaliate and Baffert, you would probably assume that it was a Grade 1 for a very large purse. Not that there is anything wrong with the Grade 2 GP Mile, it just seems like they deserve to be running for more than $215.000.
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Group Of Up and Comers in Colonel Liam
Eight horses have made the trip to GP for the 22nd running of the Colonel Liam, and will enjoy the opportunity to cash in on the largest purse that has been offered by the race. The $215.000 exceeds the amount that was available even when the race was graded from inception through 2020.
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Jakarta Looks to Rebound in Kilroe Mile
We’ll stay at SA as we move on to the Grade 1 Kilroe Mile, sending older horses that distance over the turf course. The race runs for 21st time, and has a very impressive list of past winners, including Alpha Ultimo, Jagged Account (2x), and more recently Lunar Blaze (2x) and Anoush Command.
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SA Handicap Draws Some Big Names
March comes in like a lion this year in terms of great stakes action across the virtual racing world, and the Grade 1 SA Handicap is part of the impressive slate of races that will run nationwide.