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Strong Chance of Lightning in Great White Way
As 2023 comes to a close, I would like to thank everyone who has read my previews and recaps over the past year and hope that it has added to your virtual racing experience in some way. This coverage of the Great White Way, a fantastic event for two year old NY-breds is my final race of the year. I look forward to covering the races next year, but will take the time to enjoy my holiday break.
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All Rise! Riser Has Little Trouble in LCD Ladies Sprint
Ever since she was claimed by D J C Racing Stables, Riser has been running real well, but her string of success even goes back before the claim as she had hit the board all of her nine races up to this point during 2023. Unfortunately, only one of them was a win, but it was time for that to change and the betting public would make the filly a slight favorite for the race.
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Chai Danger Completes the Threepeat in LCD Turf
He’s done it again! Chai Danger has made the LCD Turf his playground, winning the race for the third consecutive year, doing so much the same way as he has in each of 2021 and 2022. If you look at this race line for this one, and those years, you will see that they played out almost identically for the gelding.
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Chai Danger Looks to Win LCD Turf for Third Straight Year
On Saturday, the 15th running of the LCD Turf will take place at FG, and it will send five horses a mile and a sixteenth over the turf course. When the race debuted in 2006, it was unrestricted, and after a year off, it would become a race only for LA-breds.
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Holy Reception Will Be Tough to Beat in LCD Ladies Sprint
LA-breds will get our attention this weekend, and this will include female sprinters as the LCD Ladies Sprint takes place for the 10th time. The race initially took place in 2006, but has only run inconsistently since then, more than likely due to fields not filling.
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Uranus Expertly Handles Slop to Win Valedictory Stakes
On a wet and wild day at WO for the Valedictory Stakes, the stage was set for a winner that was out of this world. The slop would be a major obstacle for an otherwise evenly matched field, and doing it the best would be Uranus, for Threshold.
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Captain Falcon Soars in Stretch to Win My Dear
It wasn’t pretty for Captain Falcon six weeks ago when she ran in the FL Stakes- Susan, as she was soundly defeated by six lengths, and did not beat anyone. In a similar manner that we saw Reflex Action get redemption in the Demoiselle, Captain Falcon would do the same here in the My Dear.
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Reflex Action Bounces Back from BC to Win The Demoiselle
Despite winning the Grade 1 Frizette in October, Reflex Action struggled a month later in the BC Juvenile Fillies, not beating anyone and losing by six lengths. While it can be discouraging to lose in that manner in the biggest of races, trainer D J C Racing Stables was not going to let it stop him.
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Valedictory Stakes Is a Complete Toss Up
Sunday racing at WO will feature the fourteenth running of the Valedictory Stakes, which sends its participants that maximum mile and a half distance on the main track. The conditions for the race have been mostly constant through time, however the first edition of the race was an ungraded affair.
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The FL Sire Stakes- My Dear Will See a Field of Seven
The FL Sire Stakes will be running on Saturday, and that will include the 19th running of the My Dear, which sends two year old fillies a little over a mile on the main track. Unfortunately, the $300.000 purse equals the low point for the race, an amount not seen since 2013, and down from $400.000 last year.