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Happy Dancer Smashes Red Carpet
Red Carpet Stakes GIII$100.000 Fillies And Mares Three Years Old And Upward1 3/8 Miles TurfDel Mar November 23, 2025 Wow! Happy Dancer exploded to destroy the Red Carpet field and I should have seen it coming. She had been on… Read More ›
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Five Horses Compete in Canadian Clarendon
Clarendon Stakes$150.000 Two Year Olds Foaled in ONSix Furlongs DirtWoodbine November 23, 2025 This year’s edition of the Ontario bred Clarendon Stakes has drawn a small field of five consisting of horses from three stables vying for the $150.000 purse…. Read More ›
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Red Carpet Rolled Out For Six
Red Carpet Stakes GIII$100.000 Fillies And Mares Three Years Old And Upward1 3/8 Miles TurfDel Mar November 23, 2025 It is late in the year, BC is over, the holidays are on top of us and things are winding down…. Read More ›
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Czech Out Athabasca Now!
CC Emerald $175.000 1 1/16 Miles TurfThree Year Olds And Upward. Have Started for Claiming Price of $25.000 or Less Since 1/1/24Churchill Downs November 15, 2025 Athabasca is the kind of horse who the CC series was ideally designed for. He… Read More ›
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South Star Makes Good One Year Later
CC Canterbury $150.000 5 1/2 Furlongs TurfThree Year Olds And Upward. Have Started for Claiming Price of $25.000 or Less Since 1/1/24Churchill Downs November 15, 2025 A year ago, South Star drew post position fourteen and finished third in the CC… Read More ›
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Aways Game Looks to Continue His Climb in CC Emerald
CC Emerald $175.000 1 1/16 Miles TurfThree Year Olds And Upward. Have Started for Claiming Price of $25.000 or Less Since 1/1/24Churchill Downs November 15, 2025 At a time when it is not unusual to see races at all levels struggling… Read More ›
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CC Canterbury Draws Overflow Field
CC Canterbury$150.000 5 1/2 Furlongs TurfThree Year Olds And Upward. Have Started for Claiming Price of $25.000 or Less Since 1/1/24Churchill Downs November 15, 2025 The Claiming Crown series of stakes races is unique and theoretically provides a stakes opportunity for… Read More ›
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Skeptic Gives Pablo Racing First Graded Win While Silencing Autumn Foes
Autumn Stakes – G3$150.000 1 1/8 Miles DirtThree Year Olds And UpwardWO November 8, 2025 In writing the preview for the G3 Autumn Stakes I saw the eventual second and third finishers as improving contenders with possibilities but even though… Read More ›
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Dream Trip for Breath Of The Threat
The Dream Supreme$300.000 6 Furlongs DirtFillies And Mares Three Years Old and UpwardCD November 8, 2025 This race always seemed destined to see a hot pace up front. Three of the six horses jumped out of the gate with speed… Read More ›
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Six Challengers Face The Lunatic in WO Autumn Stakes
Autumn Stakes – G3 $150.000 1 1/8 Miles DirtThree Year Olds And UpwardWO November 8, 2025 The nineteenth running of the Grade 3 Autumn Stakes has drawn a field of seven going nine furlongs on the dirt north of the… Read More ›