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With Travers looming, Strategic Focus adding blinkers after loss in Curlin

The Daily Gazette 15 Aug 2025
SARATOGA SPRINGS — The 3-year-old fillies will command the Saratoga Race Course spotlight in the Grade I Alabama on Saturday, but the 3-year-old colts will present a sideshow of their own this weekend ... .
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Curlin Filly First to Seven Figures at F-T Saratoga

Bloodhorse 05 Aug 2025
It didn't take long to reach seven figures during the first night of Fasig-Tipton's The Saratoga Sale Aug. 4 when Hip 13, a filly by Curlin, commanded $1.3 million from Windancer Farm ... .
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Curlin Filly Lights Up Board Early at F-T Saratoga

Bloodhorse 05 Aug 2025
It didn't take long to reach seven figures during the first night of Fasig-Tipton's The Saratoga Sale Aug. 4 when Hip 13, a filly by Curlin, commanded $1.3 million from Windancer Farm ... .
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Grade 1 Winner Chancer McPatrick Takes Curlin Stakes

Bloodhorse 25 Jul 2025
Chancer McPatrick wasn't the buzz horse in the Curlin Stakes; it was stablemate Strategic Focus. But following a dramatic finish to the 1 1/8-mile race July 24 at Saratoga Race Course, it was Chancer McPatrick owning the head victory over So Sandy ...
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HORSE RACING: Chancer McPatrick wins thrilling Listed $135K Curlin presented by Casamigos

The Record 25 Jul 2025
Flanagan Racing’s dual Grade 1-winner Chancer McPatrick secured a thrilling first win around two turns in Thursday’s Listed $135,000 Curlin presented by Casamigos, a nine-furlong test for ...
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HORSE RACING: Chancer McPatrick nets career-best 94 BSF for Listed Curlin score

The Saratogian 25 Jul 2025
Ridden in the Curlin by Irad Ortiz, Jr ... Klaravich Stables’ Strategic Focus was favored in the Curlin off a nine-furlong optional claiming effort on June 6 here that saw him disqualified and placed second, awarding him a 102 Beyer.
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FROM OFF THE PACE: Strategic Partner favored in Curlin

The Saratogian 23 Jul 2025
— Because the Curlin Stakes is restricted to three-year-olds who have not won a graded stakes during the current year, the race is apt to have limited appeal ... Other Curlin Stakes winners of note ...
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HORSE RACING: Crudo and Uncaged return in Listed $135K Curlin presented by Casamigos

The Saratogian 23 Jul 2025
Strategic Focus, a $500,000 purchase at the 2023 Keeneland September Yearling Sale, is a full-brother to the Brown-trained stakes-winner Headline Numbers out of the Curlin mare Curlin’s Mistress, a ...
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Brown to Use Curlin as Travers Test for Strategic Focus

Bloodhorse 22 Jul 2025
The $135,000 Curlin Stakes at Saratoga is not a time-honored path to the Travers Stakes (G1). Yet the Curlin serves a purpose as one last chance to swim in a shallow pond before heading over to much deeper waters in the Aug. 23 Mid-Summer Derby ... .
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FROM OFF THE PACE: Daughters of Curlin

The Record 17 Jul 2025
— In recent years, daughters of Curlin have been a force in G1 two-turn races on dirt ... Raging Sea, now five, is the only one of the five female Curlin standouts still in training.
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Curlin Filly Sells for $975,000, Sets OBS June Record

Bloodhorse 19 Jun 2025
The Ocala Breeders' Sales June 2-Year-Olds in Training and Horses of Racing Age Sale concluded June 18 with a filly by Curlin selling for an OBS June record of $975,000 to Gus King. Gross sales were up to $25,538,500 from $22,045,800 in 2024 ... .
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BELMONT STAKES RACING FESTIVAL: Raging Sea in top form for Ogden Phipps; Curlin mare has ...

The Record 05 Jun 2025
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y ... She successfully returned from a six-month layoff, defeating a field that included reigning Horse of the Year Thorpedo Anna and the Brown-trained dual Grade 1 winner Randomized, who also contests the Ogden Phipps ... ....
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