Mike Pegram, Karl Watson, and Paul Weitman's Miss Monica (Early Voting) cruised to an effortless 5 3/4-length debut victory Sunday at Del Mar, giving her GI Preakness Stakes-winning freshman sire (by Gun Runner) his seventh winner and fourth 'TDN Rising Star presented by Hagyard.' The 1-2 favorite powered out to the early lead from her

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A stroll through the Fasig-Tipton sales grounds in Saratoga Springs on Sunday morning was all one needed to be rest assured that there is plenty of interest, and one hopes by extension plenty of money, for high-quality horse flesh. Many of the same faces that were seen around Saratoga Race Course a day earlier to

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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – A little after 7:00 Sunday morning, Bill Mott walked down the shedrow of his barn at the Oklahoma Training Track and peered into the stall of his comeback kid, Sovereignty (Into Mischief). “He's sleeping,” Mott said with a laugh to a couple of writers. Sovereignty certainly deserved the shut eye after

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Michael Caruso and Michael Dubb's John the Beer Man (g, 5, More Than Ready–Trophy Wife, by Giant's Causeway), who set the pace in the GI Jaipur Stakes before finishing third in his first stakes attempt June 6, returned to win Sunday's GII Troy Stakes at Saratoga after overcoming trouble in the stretch drive. He finished

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As the second starter for his freshman sire (by Nyquist), Induction garnered the honor of becoming his first winner at Colonial Downs. Sent off as a 9-2 shot to track from fifth as Yalta (War of Will) stepped out to set the fractions in :24.29 and a half in :49.42, the Pin Oak Stud homebred

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