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Diving into Native Diver Stakes
For the 18th time, the Native Diver will be taking place, and it has been run at DMR every year since 2014. During its tenure at DMR, we have already seen two dead heats for a win, so we’ll be hoping not to see a third this year.
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Ten Have Big Aspirations in The Smith
This Saturday at the Big A, a field of ten turf horses that like to keep running and running will go to post for the 17th running of The Smith. This is a Grade 2 event that sees its purse restored to the 2019 level, of $200.000, after being cut in half last year. Its classification also returned to Grade 2 status after being a Grade 3 from 2013-2020.
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Chopstick Should Be One to Beat in My Trusty Cat
This Friday at DED, we will have the third running of the My Trusty Cat, which is for two year old fillies on the main track. This race first appeared on the schedule in 2014, but would not be run a second time until last year. In 2021, the distance of the race has been changed to a mile, as it had been a seven furlong race in the previous two editions.
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Strong Late Run Gives East Of Creep A Hope Stakes Win
In the Grade 3 Hope Stakes, our field was predominantly filled with up and comers, making the race seemingly up for grabs. It would be a great chance for a horse to make a great impression, and the one doing that in this race would be East Of Creep, for Barcelona Farms. This is a horse that debuted, like many others, in April of this year, but did not hit the track again until August.
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Hang Around Comfortably Wins The Autumn Stakes
The post-time favorite for the Autumn Stakes would not disappoint, as the shot, Hang Around, pulled off a two length win over his four rivals. This well bred horse by Wreaking Havoc came into the race off a win in the Durham Cup, a very similar race that was run here a month ago and those who remembered that were eager to show their support to the gelding once again.
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Five Go to Post for Autumn Stakes
Five veteran racehorses will go to post this Sunday for the 15th running of the Autumn Stakes, north of the border at WO. You’ll find higher purses out there for races with a Grade 2 classification, but it is an amount that has been mostly consistently throughout the history of the event.
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Who Will Howl in Hope Stakes?
Last year, while many were still thinking about the top horses to have raced in the BC Juvenile, a horse by the name of Howl Of The Hound was running here, and winning the Hope Stakes for his first graded win.
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In BC Classic, Third Time’s The Charm for Tactical
It was a great day of racing at DMR that saw a few trainers win multiple races, but the biggest prize of them all was left for last in the running of the BC Classic. This was the third time that Tactical had run in the BC Classic, and in 2019, he nearly pulled it off.
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Plenty to Love About I Love Me’s BC Juvenile Fillies Turf Win
With as much as Mb Stables has done in the game, there is not a lot that he actually has not accomplished, at least once. One of those races that he had not yet won was the BC Juvenile Fillies Turf, perhaps a mild surprise since he does so well in the BC Juvenile Fillies. Well, we can now cross this one as I Love Me, a homebred by Centerpiece, comes through with a length victory.
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Lailoni Gives Arindel First BC Win in BC Juvenile Fillies
With such a strong field in the BC Juvenile Fillies, bettors looked away from Lailoni, and she would go off at odds of 121/1. No one probably thought she was a bad horse, but she didn’t have as much graded success as others in the field did. None of that would matter as she would be much the best in this race to give trainer Arindel his first, of likely more, career BC win.
