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Graded Quality Field for Ungraded Kenner Stakes
This Saturday, FG will play host to both a KYD and a KYO prep race, but also has several interesting races on the undercard that will lead us up to the day’s features. The Kenner Stakes, a five and a half furlong turf event, may be just an ungraded stake, but usually attracts very good horses anyway.
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John Deere Gets Revenge on Pearls Before Swine in SSM Sprint
The SSM Sprint looked like a two horse race from the start. John Deere and Pearls Before Swine were the class of the four horse field, and it would probably take a career best effort for one of the other two to score the victory. In the end, that’s exactly what we got.
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With SSM F/M Turf Win, Rita Vrataski Begins Making Up for Lost Time
Despite having only made twelve starts prior to the running of the SSM F/M Turf, Rita Vrataski is a seven year old mare. Her prior trainer put her on the shelf for a couple of extended periods, but fortunately she would be put in a $12.500 claiming race for her last start.
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Can Pearls Before Swine Run Better Than a Deere?
This will be the 20th time that the SSM Sprint is held within our game, but unfortunately there is no turning back the clock to the purse level when the race debuted. In 2004, this race ran for $300.000, a far cry from the $75.000 that the race runs for today.
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Field of Five Runs in SSM F/M Turf
Outside of a couple races this weekend, it is a very quiet few days on the stakes scene. Due to that, we’re going to get some coverage here of some stakes that have under a $100.000 purse. Here, we look at the SSM F/M Turf, which as the name implies, is run on the grass for females that were bred in the Sunshine State.
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Snake Island Makes Statement with Win in Fifth Avenue
2022 was the third time that the Fifth Avenue, part of the NY Stallion Series, would run for a $500.000 purse, and that led to a strong field that had a nice mix of horses that have already proven themselves at this level, and those looking to make a statement in what is probably their final race as a two year old.
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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.
