Gainesway Stable’s homebred grade 1 winner Spendarella will miss the remainder of the season after “a minor setback,” trainer Graham Motion confirmed to BloodHorse the evening of Sept. 3.
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Heavy rainfall led to the cancellation of races 8-11 on the Sept. 3 card at Kentucky Downs, and the track called off the Sept. 4 card thereafter. Among the impacted races were the Mint Million Stakes (G3T) and Kentucky Downs Juvenile Mile Stakes.
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Brad Cox trainee Chop Chop prevailed in inclement weather Sept. 3 at Kentucky Downs to win the $500,000 Aristocrat Gaming Juvenile Fillies Stakes and give City of Light his first stakes winner.
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Virginia Joy, trained by Chad Brown, upsets the field in Flower Bowl Stakes (G2T) Sept. 3 at Saratoga Race Course. The 5-year-old mare led from start to finish and held off 1-5 favorite War Like Goddess by a neck.
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Thin White Duke won the Lucky Coin Stakes for trainer David Donk, who is working for former trainer Phil Gleaves, who is part of the ownership group of the horse. Gleaves and Donk go way back as both once worked for Hall of Famer Woody Stephens.
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Arindel’s undefeated Lynx rallied through the stretch to win the $200,000 Susan’s Girl division of the FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes Series Sept. 3 at Gulfstream Park by 4 3/4 lengths.
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Heavy rainfall led to the cancellation of races 8-11 on the Sept. 3 card. Among the impacted races were the Mint Million Stakes (G3T) and Kentucky Downs Juvenile Mile Stakes.
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Rebounding from a dull fourth in the Aug. 6 Whitney Stakes (G1), Olympiad notched his first grade 1 victory in taking the $1 million Jockey Club Gold Cup (G1) Sept. 3 at Saratoga Race Course.
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Last year’s Arc hero Torquator Tasso will be a short-priced favorite to win back-to-back runnings of the Sept. 4 Grosser Preis von Baden (G1), with connections hoping it will act as a springboard for a defense of his Longchamp crown.
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Bass Racing’s Kentucky homebred Annapolis made every pole a winning one in the $186,000 Saranac Stakes (G3T), a 1 1/16-mile turf test for sophomores, Sept. 3 at Saratoga Race Course.
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