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“Very, very tough,” Lukas said. “We’ve gone from winning the Essex to probably fourth choice in the Handicap."

Weigelia might be the horse to unseat perennial leader Jump Start as Pennsylvania's leading earner of stallion awards.

Wooley, from Lexington, Ky., has won her first Eclipse Award, for “Elbow Room Please,” a head-on photograph of the $500,000 Lukas Classic

Ocala stud has set 2023 stud fees for its roster of 10 stallions for the upcoming breeding season, led by Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby winner Roadster who will stand his initial season at stud for $7,500 S&N. Also new to the roster for 2023 is Grade 1 winner Gretzky the Great, who will stand for $3,000 S&N.

Plainsman, a multiple Grade 3-winning son of Flatter, will retire to Buck Pond Farm in Lexington, Ky., for the 2023 breeding season, where he will stand for an advertised fee of $5,000.

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Godolphin’s Speaker’s Corner, a Grade 1 winner in this year’s Carter Handicap (G1), tops a competitive field of 10 older horses that were entered in Saturday’s 30th running of the $300,000 Ack Ack (G3) at Churchill Downs.