The 2-year-old colt Darkness Falls debuted racing one mile in July and, after an easy win last month over 1 1/8 miles in the Group 1 Golden Fleece Stakes, emerged as a leading contender for the 1 1/2-mile Derby next June.
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Indiana's very best put on a show as 11 new Indiana Sire Stakes champions were crowned as part of Hoosier Champions Night at Harrah's Hoosier Park on Friday, Oct. 9. Over $2.4 million in purses were on the line, headlined by the eight $250,000 Super Finals for 2- and 3-year-olds.
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New York-sired 2-year-olds were in the spotlight on Friday evening at Vernon Downs in four $250,000 Big Apple finals, and drivers Jason Bartlett and Brian Sears both had two victories.
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Bluegrass division winner Blazin Lou turned away another Bluegrass winner in 1-5 favorite Rumble And Sway to romp in a 1:49 1/5 lifetime-best and win the second of two $104,000 Grade 3 International Stallion Stakes divisions for 2-year-old pacing males on Friday (Oct. 9) at The Red Mile.
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Trainer Marcus Melander swept the pair of $139,000 Grade 3 International Stallion Stakes divisions for 2-year-old trotting fillies - sponsored by Midland Acres - on Friday (Oct. 9) at The Red Mile with two longer-priced propositions in maidens A Tale Of Kemp and Sweetest Of All.
For the third consecutive Saturday, there is a carryover in the $2 pick six at Santa Anita.
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The New York State Gaming Commission on Friday approved a proposal that would allow tracks in New York to increase the purse-to-price ratio in claiming races to 3 to 1 from its current ratio of 2.8 to 1.
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Give Lambeth 1 1/2 miles of racetrack, be it turf or dirt, and he becomes a stakes horse. Lambeth won his first stakes in 2025 in the Temperance Hill, a 1 1/2-mile dirt race at Oaklawn , and on Friday at Keeneland he won his second, the Sycamore.
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Kevin Plowcha's analysis of the Monday 10/12 card at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
