Edited Press Release Spendthrift Farm and Frank Fletcher Racing Operations' Q B Rocket made a winning debut sprinting six furlongs on Saturday versus fellow juveniles in the eighth race, which earned him a 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard,' for the effort. Ridden by Junior Alvarado, the Gun Runner dark bay wired the eight-horse field

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Collecting yet another graded stakes trophy for her case, Sweet Azteca (Sharp Azteca–So Sweetitiz, by Grand Slam) took the GIII Rancho Bernardo Stakes at Del Mar for the third straight year on Sunday. The race was also part of the Breeders' Cup Dirt Dozen Bonus Series heading toward the GI Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare

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The quartet of eye-catching Aug. 9 wins at Monmouth Park and Saratoga by horses returning from months-long layoffs, all prepped at Fair Hill Training Center in Maryland by the previously low-profile (178 wins in 17 years at a 12% clip) trainer Angel Quiroz, started out last week with the potential to be the simmering scandal

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In the GIII Mahony Stakes at Saratoga on Sunday afternoon, Stradale (Yaupon–Twitterpated, by Stormy Atlantic) took the featured race on the card with a late move down the lane and secured the first graded win of his career. A competitor on dirt for trainer Steve Asmussen after going for $1.3-million during the OBS April sale,

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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Chad Brown will have a filly in the $600,000 GI Alabama Stakes on Saturday, but it's not the one you might have expected. My Gun's Loaded (Gun Runner), will make her stakes debut in the Alabama after winning both starts this year. She broke her maiden at Saratoga June 6

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