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Last Samurai won Saturday’s $600,000 Razorback Handicap (G3) at Oaklawn before a Hot Springs, Ark., crowd of 35,000.

Program favorite West Will Power hails from the powerhouse connections of trainer Brad Cox and Gary and Mary West.

Bank Sting has banked $652,050 through a lifetime record of 14-8-3-0. Her Big A record stands at an impressive 9-6-2-0

Hip No. 42, a yearling son of Tapit consigned by Stuart Morris, Agent, went to Dave Cannizzo, Agent, for $225,000 to top the Consignor Preferred Session on the first day of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s 2023 Winter Mixed Sale.

Twin Creeks Racing Stables’ Kentucky homebred Law Professor drew off to an impressive 7 1/2-length score in Saturday’s $150,000 Queens County, a nine-furlong route for 4-year-olds and up, at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Jockey Manny Franco equaled a record on Friday, Jan. 6, winning aboard 6-of-7 mounts on the nine-race card at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Atras said the added distance Saturday should benefit Law Professor after chasing rapid splits at the Breeders’ Cup.

Four-time Eclipse Award winner Chad Brown secured his eighth consecutive year-end training title on the New York Racing Association Inc.  circuit with 159 wins from 587 starters, good for a win percentage of 27.09 with an in-the-money rate of 59.28 percent through 196 racing days.

Saturday’s 10-race card at Aqueduct Racetrack will feature a double Pick 6 carryover of $84,991 after the multi-race wager went unsolved for the second consecutive day on Friday’s nine-race program.

Friday’s nine-race card at Aqueduct Racetrack will be bolstered by a Pick 6 carryover of $24,322 after the sequence went unsolved on Thursday’s eight-race program.