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Game Winner On The Rise In Breeders’ Cup Classic Rankings

July 16, 2019
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Gary and Mary West’s 2018 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner Game Winner rose to No. 8 in the latest Breeders’ Cup Classic Rankings following his commanding five-length victory in Saturday’s Los Alamitos Derby (G3). Trained by Bob Baffert, Game Winner (53…

July 17 Insights: Full to Hit It a Bomb Entered On Spa Turf

July 16, 2019
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Sponsored by Alex Nichols Agency 7th-SAR, $90K, Msw, 3yo/up, 1mT, 4:32 p.m. ET Rain is in the forecast for Wednesday’s week two opener at Saratoga, but if the day’s seventh event stays on the turf, Chad Brown starts an intriguing…

Hofburg Set For A Return To Racing At Saratoga

July 16, 2019
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Hofburg, the Bill Mott-trained colt who was on the Triple Crown trail last year, is set to run his first race of 2019 Thursday at Saratoga. Hofburg, a son of Tapit owned and bred by Juddmonte Farms, was last seen…

Overnight Sensation Guarana is Magical Dividend

July 16, 2019
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A Chad Brown trifecta in the first Grade I at the Spa this summer last Saturday was the work of established distaff benchmarks, featuring two Breeders’ Cup champions. There could hardly be a more exciting contrast in the barn’s big…

Overnight Sensation Guarana is Magical Dividend

July 16, 2019
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A Chad Brown trifecta in the first Grade I at the Spa this summer last Saturday was the work of established distaff benchmarks, featuring two Breeders’ Cup champions. There could hardly be a more exciting contrast in the barn’s big…

The Week in Review: Game Winner Finally Seems Ready to Deliver On His 3-Year-Old Potential

July 15, 2019
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The Week in Review, by Bill Finley Had you told Bob Baffert and owners Gary and Mary West back in early November that their Game Winner (Candy Ride {Arg)} would go through the first half of his 3-year-old season injury…

Speedy Serengeti Empress gearing up for Test

July 15, 2019
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<div class=”field field-type-text field-field-byline”> <div class=”field-items”> <div class=”field-item odd”> Mike Welsch </div> </div> </div> <p>SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Guarana was certainly impressive drawing away to a six-length triumph in the Grade 1 Acorn last month at Belmont Park. But there…

Speedy Serengeti Empress gearing up for Test

July 15, 2019
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<div class=”field field-type-text field-field-byline”> <div class=”field-items”> <div class=”field-item odd”> Mike Welsch </div> </div> </div> <p>SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Guarana was certainly impressive drawing away to a six-length triumph in the Grade 1 Acorn last month at Belmont Park. But there…

Servis ‘Feeling Good’ About Maximum Security After ‘Super’ Haskell Breeze

July 15, 2019
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Maximum Security turned in a “super” work on Monday morning at Monmouth Park in his last serious prep for Saturday’s $1 million TVG.Com Haskell Invitational, trainer Jason Servis said. The disqualified Kentucky Derby winner, in typical Servis style, open galloped…

Pedigree Insights: Japan

July 15, 2019
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Thanks to the victories of Anthony Van Dyck in the Derby, Circus Maximus in the St James’s Palace S. and Sovereign in the Irish Derby, the great Galileo owed three of his first five Group 1s of 2019 to granddaughters…