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Close Finish Expected in The Withers
The KYD is now just three months away and this weekend will offer plenty of excitement with three prep races taking place for the big race. Here, we will look at The Withers, which runs at the Big A.
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No Pegasus World Distaff Needed: Fashionable Takes The Pegasus World Cup
Fillies don’t have a Pegasus race just for them, unless they want to run on the grass. So, with no real equivalent for them, we had two in the field here in the Pegasus World Cup, taking on the males.
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Demon Sweeps Away San Vicente Stakes Field
In July, Wood Duck Stables picked up Demon in private sales for $150.000 after he made his first start. This has proven to be a great purchase, as the Crossing The Rubicon colt had won two out of three. After the Grade 2 San Vicente, we can make that three out of four with an impressive come from behind victory.
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Low Budget Java Hangs On to Win Martha Washington By a Nose
Low Budget Java has not raced all that much in her career so far as the filly was making just her fourth start in the $200.000 Martha Washington at OP. She had been very impressive in her first three races, with one $250.000 stake win and narrowly missing a graded win.
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No Big Standout in San Vicente Stakes
A field of nine will be going to post for the Grade 2 San Vicente Stakes, a seven furlong race that has been run every year since 2004 within our virtual world. In would initially be run for $150.000, and in 2014 it would see the increase to its current level of $200.000.
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The Pegasus World Cup Finally Gets Its Big Purse
For the first time, the Pegasus World Cup will be run in the game. Yeah, I know, it’s been run before here, but 2022 will be the first time that the virtual race will actually look like its real-life counterpart, given that it will have a $3,000.000 Purse and not just be a repeat of the Donn Handicap conditions.
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Get Your Java for The Martha Washington
The final weekend of January will have plenty of exciting races, and that will include at OP where 10 points for the KYO are ready to be handed out to the winner of the 12th running of The Martha Washington. It’s an ungraded stake, but has all of the prestige of anything that is graded.
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Stunning Stretch Drive Wins Kenner Stakes for Kid Commander
Last year, Kid Commander finished third in the BC Turf Sprint, so that would instantly make him the one to beat here in the Kenner Stakes. You would have thought so, anyway, as our pick to win the race would go off at odds of 6/1.
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Wily Veteran Banshee Star Wins Bradley Stakes
He may be eight years old and a veteran of 54 races, but Banshee Star is still getting the job done! Since arriving with Calia Stable, via a $16.000 claim in July, the gelding has won four of eight starts, and the Bradley Stakes makes their first stake win together.
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Kid Commander Faces Tough Crowd in Kenner Stakes
A field of eight will go to post for the 16th running of the Kenner Stakes, which is a turf sprint for older horses. Just in time for a big NFL weekend, the race will feature blown coverage and a blitz. Perhaps it will be as entertaining as last year’s race was, when ten horses finished within two lengths of one another.
