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Tom Pedulla presents five major takeaways from the Woodward Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets and the other graded stakes on Saturday at Saratoga Race Course, which featured another dominant showing by a leading Horse of the Year candidate:

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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – In a sense, the greatest challenge for a Kentucky Derby winner comes after the youngster is draped in a blanket of red roses.

The 3-year-old almost surely ran the best race of his young career on the first Saturday in May. Then he is asked to produce a similar huge effort several more times if he is to win the Eclipse Award as the champion of his class.

Rick Porter has a number of reasons as to why Songbird didn't look like Songbird in the Delaware Handicap.

The 4-year-old Medaglia d'Oro  filly won by a length July 15 at Delaware Park—over Martini Glass, who has yet to win a stakes in her 16-race career—but the power and brilliance Songbird displayed in 13 previous races just wasn't there.

The path to the 2017 Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Del Mar on Nov. 3-4 is a road with plenty of ups and downs as talented racehorses vie for a spot in one of 13 championship races.

This blog provides a capsule look at three horses who are heating up on the Road to the Breeders’ Cup World Championships and three horses whose Breeders’ Cup chances are not quite as strong as they were a week ago.

Run over 1 ¼ miles on dirt, Saturday’s $1 million TVG Pacific Classic Stakes at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club is a Challenge Series “Win and You’re In” qualifying race for the Breeders’ Cup Classic.

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