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Sprinters will be in the spotlight Saturday at Del Mar as the $400,000 Bing Crosby Stakes will focus attention on the West Coast’s fastest runners. A deep field of 10 will square off in the six-furlong, Grade 1 stakes that will award the winner a free, expenses-paid trip to the Qatar Racing Breeders’ Cup Sprint in November and should provide fans with a wide-open betting affair.

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 2022 Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic.

The fields for the 14 races that comprise the Breeders’ Cup World Championships really begin to come into focus in summer and fall and this regular feature will offer a snapshot profile of one of the previous weekend’s standout stars.

Tom Pedulla presents five key takeaways from Saturday’s $1 million TVG.com Haskell Stakes at New Jersey’s Monmouth Park and other major weekend developments:

For the better part of 50 years, Al Gold traveled from his New Jersey home to Monmouth Park a countless amount of times.

He saw more editions of the TVG.com Haskell Stakes in the course of his 66 years on this earth than he can remember.

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