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Trainer Ian Wilkes always thought Positano Sunset  might have a grade 1 win in her, and his patience paid off April 8 in the $623,338 Madison Stakes (G1) at Keeneland. The 5-year-old Goldencents   mare had a single stakes win—the 2023 Audubon Oaks at Ellis Park—coming into the Madison, but she had run some big races. In…

The $500,000 Diana Stakes (G1T) serves as the anchor to the traditional 40-day Saratoga Race Course meet July 12, and the six fillies and mares that comprise the starting gate grant true meaning to its grade 1 status. Three of the runners exit victories at the top level, one succeeded at the level two starts…

We take a look at the big bets the online bookmakers have taken on Saturday’s horse racing around the country with most of the big money being placed at Randwick where it is 2025 Doncaster Mile day on Day 1 of The Championships. swiftbet 💰 👉 Download the hottest new betting app BEST BOOKIES 💸: View the…

A pair of $225,000 listed stakes for 2-year-olds are among the highlights of the June 29 card at Churchill Downs, which features five stakes races. The Bashford Manor Stakes for 2-year-olds going six furlongs on the dirt drew a field of seven, and one race later the Debutante Stakes for 2-year-old fillies attracted nine going the…

It’s the test for the Test. Excuse the redundancy, but in recent years the $175,000 Victory Ride Stakes (G3) has been an appropriate steppingstone for 3-year-old filly sprinters to the Test Stakes (G1). Yet this year the link between the two stakes is stronger than ever before. Previously run downstate at Belmont Park or Aqueduct…

Closing weekend of the Keeneland fall meet kicks off with the $400,000 Valley View Stakes (G2T) Oct. 24, which drew an overflow field of some of the top 3-year-old turf fillies in the country.  The one-mile Valley View features a rematch of this year’s summer’s Lake Placid Stakes (G2T) at Saratoga Race Course, with the winner…