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The American Graded Stakes Committee reviewed 970 U.S. stakes races and assigned Graded status to 429 of them, 11 fewer than in 2023.
Favored Dance to the Music broke sharply and was head and head with runner-up Violent Runner prior to gaining the advantage in deep stretch, taking Saturday’s $100,000 Desert Stormer Stakes (G3) at Santa Anita by one length.
Graded stakes winner Elm Drive looms a major threat for trainer Phil D’Amato when she returns from a six-month layoff in Saturday’s Grade III Desert Stormer going six furlongs on the main track.
WinStar Farm’s multiple graded stakes winner Independence Hall sired his first reported foal when a colt out of the winning Distorted Humor mare Seascape was born at 1:30 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 16 at Mahoney Eden Manor Farm in New York.
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