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Madaket Stables, Michael Dubb and Michael Kisber’s Chili Flag powered down the center of the inner turf course to overtake stablemate Whitebeam in mid-stretch and go on to a half-length triumph in the 31st running of Friday's Grade 1, $500,000 Just a Game for older fillies and mares going one mile on the inner turf, at Saratoga Race Course.
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Mary Eddy
R. Larry Johnson’s Maryland homebred Future Is Now doubled up on stakes victories with a gritty head score in Friday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Intercontinental presented by MTV Solutions, a 5 1/2-furlong Mellon turf test for older fillies and mares, at the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival at Saratoga Race Course.
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Michael Trombetta, winning trainer of Future Is Now (No. 5, $22.80): "This filly has learned to sit off of horses and run when she's needed. It's really changed things for her. In the last couple of races it's all really come together for her. This was great. I mean, this is over the top for us. We came in here with expectations just to run well. But to win it is extraordinary.
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When it comes to making history, Brittany Russell knows how it works. Just the fourth woman to lead the trainer standings at her home base of Laurel Park and the first to do it twice, both coming in 2022, the 34-year-old went one better in 2023, becoming the first female ever to win more races than any trainer in a single year at Laurel and Pimlico Race Course.
Mary Eddy
Three gray heads hit the wire together after two laps around the Saratoga Race Course inner turf Thursday, but it was the late-running The Grey Wizard who proved superior in the Grade 2, $250,000 Belmont Gold Cup, a two-mile marathon for older horses, at the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival at Saratoga Race Course.
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Frank Fletcher Racing Operations and Ten Strike Racing’s Almostgone Rocket kept her perfect record intact with an easy victory in Thursday’s Listed $150,000 Jersey Girl, a six-furlong sprint for sophomore fillies, at the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival at Saratoga Race Course.
Keith McCalmont
Studlydoright made his stakes debut a winning one, closing from well off a scintillating pace under a patient Xavier Perez to capture Thursday’s Listed $150,000 Tremont, a 5 1/2-furlong main-track sprint for 2-year-olds to kick off the stakes action on Day One of the four-day Belmont Stakes Racing Festival, at Saratoga Race Course.
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