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Graham Motion sends out Ballast in the Tropical Turf H. on Saturday.

Ballast won the 2006 Tropical Turf Handicap at Calder, but he could be overlooked in Saturday’s edition of the Grade 3 race against the likes of Host and Go Between. Story

Hartack, who retired from riding in ‘81, was on a hunting trip in Texas.

Mid-century sports icon Bill Hartack, 74, rider of five Kentucky Derby winners, died of natural causes this week. Story

Daaher won his third straight race in the Cigar Mile on Saturday.

Like Discreet Cat the year before, a blossoming 3-year-old captured the Grade 1 Cigar Mile at Aqueduct as Daaher toppled favorite Midnight Lute on Saturday. Story | Watch

A.P. Arrow held off Brass Hat to win the Grade 2 Clark on Friday.

New millionaire A.P. Arrow, a Todd Pletcher trainee, scored the biggest win of his career Friday in the Grade 2, $500,000 Clark Handicap at Churchill Downs. Story | Pletcher’s latest record

More than 3,400 applications were submitted for 1,800 available stalls.

As the city of New Orleans continues to recover from the destruction that Hurricane Katrina imposed in 2005, so does its historic racetrack, Fair Grounds, which begins a new meet on Thanksgiving Day. Story

Midnight Lute has been “totally different” since mending from surgery.

Curlin may have the Horse of the Year locked up, but Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner Midnight Lute may be the most exciting horse of 2007. Midnight Lute goes for another Grade 1 on Saturday. Paul Moran

The Keeneland November breeding stock sale ends Monday.

With five days remaining, the Keeneland November breeding stock sale in Lexington, Ky., has already set a record for gross at nearly $322 million. Story

Gomez leads the nation in total earnings with $21.4 million in purses.

Jockey Garrett Gomez broke Jerry Bailey’s record for stakes victories in a year on Sunday with his 71st, riding 2-year-old filly Spring Awakening to victory in the Moccasin Stakes at Hollywood Park. Story

Revved Up, a 9-year-old gelding, won the Bonnie Heath Turf at Calder.

Revved Up ($5.60) scored his third straight victory in the $150,000 Bonnie Heath Turf Cup for Florida-breds at Calder on Saturday. Story

Any Given Saturday won four races during his 3-year-old campaign.

Haskell winner Any Given Saturday will stand alongside his 3-year-old adversaries Street Sense and Hard Spun at Darley Stable’s Lexington, Ky., farm. Story