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Impressive Falls City (G3) winner Xigera will head for a planned break over the winter before targeting the La Troienne (G1) next spring.
Xigera resumed her serious training at Churchill Downs on Thursday and posted a swift half-mile workout in :47.80.
Grade 1 winner Played Hard has been retired from racing, and she will enter the broodmare band of owner Richard Rigney, BloodHorse reports.
By knocking over Clairiere six weeks ago in the Shuvee Stakes (G2), in her first start as a four-year-old, Nest became the new leader among older female dirt runners. Clairiere is back for another shot at last year’s three-year-old champ in Friday’s $500,000 Personal Ensign Stakes (G1). Joining the fray is the formidable Secret Oath, […]