Ag Bullet, a 5-year-old mare by Twirling Candy, led from start to finish to win the $2 million Never Say Die Ladies Turf Sprint Stakes Aug. 30 at Kentucky Downs.
Colonial Downs made a major change in its annual calendar and stakes schedule this year by moving the Virginia Derby. Previously a graded stakes race held in September for 3-year-olds on turf, the 1 1/8-mile race was switched to dirt and rescheduled to March as the anchor of a brief boutique meet.
Each week a panel of media members, horseplayers, and Breeders’ Cup World Championships officials release a poll tabulating their votes on the nation's top contenders for the 2025 Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic. The rankings are a weekly rating of the top 10 horses in contention and are determined by each voter ranking their top 10 horses with points assigned on a descending 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis.
Promising 2-year-olds emerge every summer at Saratoga Race Course and Ted Noffey delivered a pair of special efforts at the meet, saving the best for last with an 8 ½-length romp in the $300,000 Spendthrift Farm Hopeful Stakes on the Sept. 1 closing day card.
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