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This week's matchup sees a pair of colts with big shoes to fill facing off. Both Kentucky-bred colts are siblings to a pair of graded stakes winners each, and both have Grade 1-winning brothers to chase.
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The final round of Kentucky Derby preps are officially in full swing. These are where we’ll learn a lot about some horses, and this past week provided plenty of education (plus a few key news items that have led to significant changes to this list).
Back on turf, long-fused Queen Goddess unfurled an impressive turn of foot the final three-sixteenths of a mile to defeat heavily favored Going to Vegas by 1 ½ lengths in Saturday’s Grade 3, $125,000 Santa Ana Stakes at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif.
Leading rider Dylan Davis won four races on Saturday’s lucrative New York Claiming Championship card, which saw New York-breds capture six of the 10 starter stakes at Aqueduct Racetrack.