Bush Racing Stable's Point Dume (Into Mischief) fended off Champion Male Sprinter Book'em Danno (Bucchero) by a neck on the front end to capture Saturday's GII Carter at Aqueduct Racetrack. Earning a 101 Beyer Speed Figure, the bay will continue to run in high-level races, although trainer Tim Kreiser still needs to determine a next

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Trainer Riley Mott knew it would be a big ask for Albus (Yaupon) to go from a one-mile and 40-yard maiden victory to the nine-furlong GII Wood Memorial, but the colt responded with aplomb to win from well off-the-pace on Saturday at Aqueduct and punch his ticket to Louisville for the GI Kentucky Derby. “He

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With Further Ado (Gun Runner) crushing his rivals in Saturday's GI Toyota Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland, Irad Ortiz Jr. continued one of the most spectacular runs through the preps for the GI Kentucky Derby that any jockey has ever had. It was his fifth win in a Derby prep, including three races that award

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The Brad Cox barn captured three of the five graded stakes on Saturday's program, highlighted by the 11-length victory by Spendthrift Farm's Further Ado (Gun Runner) in the GI Toyota Blue Grass Stakes. (video courtesy HBPA) “They are all doing good this morning and will most likely ship to Churchill Downs [Monday Apr. 6],” Cox

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Four weeks in advance of the 152nd running of the GI Kentucky Derby, bettors made GI Arkansas Derby winner Renegade (Into Mischief) the 4-1 favorite with GI Curlin Florida Derby winner Commandment (Into Mischief) the 7-1 second choice in the sixth and final pool of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager (KDFW). The three-day pool closed

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