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Exonerated Prez Elects the Winner’s Circle in Ohio

    Exonerated Prez enjoyed a dream trip with Luis Rivera over a sloppy track at Thistledown yesterday, and came away with his third career victory.      The 4-year-old Kentucky-bred gelding made it look easy, getting six furlongs in 1:13.48 and paying $8.40. The check for $7,320 inched First Dude’s 2022 progeny earnings closer

Bahamian Squall Locks Up First $1 Million Season

    When Foot Sack entered the gate at 12:38 for the first race at Belterra yesterday, Bahamian Squall’s progeny earnings for 2022 stood at $998,375. Less than two minutes later, that number increased to $1,006,075 as the 3-year-old gelding broke his maiden in a six-furlong race reduced to three starters due to scratches.   

Sun Squall Puts Bahamian Squall on the Verge of $1 Million

    By 8 p. m. this evening, Bahamian Squall may have passed the $1 million mark in progeny earnings for the first time. It’s all up to Free to Run, who is 9/2 in the morning line for the third race at Mountaineer Casino & Racetrack. With a purse of just under $8,000, the

Berks Batting .500, Wins 2, 4, 6 and 8

    Berks has made it easy for his backers at the mutuel windows to decide when to bet on him – he wins every other race.     The 3-year-old First Dude gelding has raced eight times at five tracks, and has won four times; in outing No. 2 (at Pimlico), No. 4 (at

Bahama Pearl Wire-to-Wire at Pimlico; Bahamian Squall Nearing $1 Million

    Bahamian Squall came $21,600 closer to his first million-dollar season yesterday when Bahama Pearl went wire-to-wire racing six furlongs at Pimlico under J. D. Acosta.     The healthy check boosted Bahamian Squall’s earnings for 2022 to $983,014, and he went over $2.6 million lifetime.      Bahama Pearl jumped out to the

Free to Run Prevails in the Race ‘Too Close to Call’

    Tijuana Racing Stables and Juan Pablo Silva, owners and trainer of Free to Run, couldn’t have been upset when they found out there were four scratches from yesterday’s fifth race at Mountaineer Casino & Resort, leaving their filly with just two opponents in the five-furlong race.      When the trio broke from

Equine Ohtani Shines; Not So Much for Ballplayer

    Tuesday, Sept. 13, was a good day for one of the Ohtanis, the equine version. Twenty-eight-year-old Los Angeles Angels’ slugger and pitcher Shohei Ohtani went 0-for-3 as his team lost to the Cleveland Guardians; Ohtani, the 6-year-old First Dude gelding bred by Donald Dizney won at Assiniboia Downs and raised his record to

Bahamian Squall Filly Creating Great Memories for Double Diamond’s Owner

    Each time Running Memories sets foot on the racetrack. she makes Don Dizney’s $20,000 OBS July purchase price in 2020 look like a greater bargain.     At Gulfstream Park yesterday, with Edgar Perez aboard and carrying 125 pounds, the 4-year-old daughter of Bahamian Squall scored a hard-earned victory in the North Miami,

First Dude Females Fare Well in Saturday Stakes

    With Maryquitecontrary winning the $65,000 Sheer Drama Stakes at Gulfstream Park yesterday, and Ready to Runaway finishing second in the $100,000 Bella Notte Minnesota Distaff at Canterbury Park, First Dude’s progeny earnings for 2022 soared to $1,657,361, and it shouldn’t be long before the son of Stephen Got Even surpasses $2 million for

Correa Fits Purdy Pumkin Like a Glove

    After Yarmarie Correa was involved in a major spill at Thistledown a year ago, it was touch and go whether she would ever ride again. Her performances in three recent races aboard Purdy Pumkin have proven she’s as good as ever.      In Correa’s first two trips on the 3-year-old First Dude