Grade 1 winner Brightwork was in “good spirits” according to trainer John Ortiz the morning after she was a late paddock scratch in the Test Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course Aug. 3.
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Freshman sire Vekoma picked up his first black-type stakes winner as Louisiana Jess ran away from the field in the D. S. Shine Young Futurity Aug. 3 at Evangeline Downs.
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Losing position on the backstretch when shuffled behind rivals, Adare Manor finds her stride late on the second turn and down the stretch to catch Scylla in the $400,000 Clement L. Hirsch Stakes (G1) Aug. 3 at Del Mar.
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Hip 11 is a half sister to the late multiple stakes-winning Ova Charged, and Hip 209 is a half sister to grade 2 winner Red Carpet Ready; both are by Not This Time.
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A three-race stakes card at Ellis Park Aug. 3 was marred by tragedy when the popular, 15-time-winning mare Ova Charged broke down in the stretch when racing in the Kentucky Downs Preview Ladies Turf Sprint Stakes.
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Locked in a nose-to-nose duel for the final sixteenth of a mile, Governor Sam was able to prevail at the wire Aug. 3 in the $100,000 Tyro Stakes at Monmouth Park, becoming the first stakes winner for WinStar Farm’s late stallion Improbable.
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In his first stakes appearance, Glassman Racing’s Arthur’s Ride handled the class jump with ease as he dominated the $1 million Whitney Stakes (G1) in front-running fashion at Saratoga Race Course.
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2020 Saudi Cup winner Midnight Bisou is now a broodmare in Japan, having been purchased for $5.5 million by Katsumi Yoshida of Northern Farm in the fall of 2022. But one of her foals can carry on the family name domestically and is in training.
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Khaadem looked the winner from a long way out in the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes (G1) at Ascot in fast conditions, but was unable to back up that performance when only 10th behind Mill Stream in the July Cup.
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Ways and Means, unlucky in top company a year ago when second in the Spinaway Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course after being shut off down the backstretch, triumphed Aug. 3 in the $500,000 Test Stakes (G1) for 3-year-old fillies.
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